The Truth About The Open The Economy Movement

It isn't about opening the economy. It is about forcing their servants to go back to work and wait on them.  Conservatives here and elsewhere like to portray themselves as rugged individualists that can survive any calamity while tofu eating liberals cannot survive even a few days without modern conveniences.   We even had a long thread about this very subject here on the forum asking us to choose who would survive.

These protests have revealed that it is the self-entitled conservatives that can't even survive a few days of minimal inconvenience.  Given all the I need a haircut signs, they can't even groom themselves without assistance.  What this movement is really about is forcing all the low paid service workers to go back to work so they can have people wait on them and provide them the luxuries they are used to.

They want someone to cut their hair, mow their lawn, give them a massage, cook and serve them their dinner, give them a new tattoo, watch their spoiled brats because they are already sick of them, walk their dogs, and take care of their elderly parents so they don't have to. They are done wiping grandma's ass and they aren't going to take it anymore. 

In 90% of the country, anybody that wants a job right now can have one. We desperately need meatpackers, assembly line workers, nurses aides, fast food workers, grocery store workers, convenience store workers, EMTs, cleaning staff, e-commerce workers and so on. Everyplace in my area like these examples are desperately looking for workers just so they can keep the doors open.

Conservative pussies are content to continue to cash their unemployment checks or social security checks while we run out of food.  The people that make up the backbone of the economy are already working. 

Weak argument, pretty stupid actually.

Typical Trumper---call any idea you don't agree with stupid.

I think it's more about the standard conservative religion--that the only thing that matters is shareholder value. Anything else, including millions of lives, can be sacrificed to attain that.

So I'm not at all surprised that they want to open up the economy, even with the consequent death toll.

No I'm not a Trumper, and I'm all for sheltering in place, just thought that his argument was stupid

My thoughts exactly. I am a progressive and detest Trump with a passion so strong, it sometimes scares me, but The O.P.'s argument  is so wide of the mark (just realized I made an unintended pun) that it makes no sense to bother to point put its obvious flaws.

It's not a binary choice. It's not a matter of totally "opening up the economy," or we all stay in total lockdown until a vaccine or treatment is available whether that's in six months or two years or never.

It's obvious from the last few days that many people will not be willing to stay in their houses, 24/7, for a year, or even all summer, and police are not going to shoot them or jail them if they go to the beach.

It's unfortunate that major complex public policy questions that require complex, non-ideoplogical answers are reduced in this forum to manichean food fights by persons with anger management issues who are more interested in growling at others than in, for example, trying to finding a path out of this pandemic disaster.

Marks comments about us.

They want someone to cut their hair:  I'm not worrying about my hair.  I'll get a haircut when my barbar shop opens on May 11 AND it's not crazy crowded.

Mow their lawn:  I've always mowed my own lawn.

Give them a massage:  I haven't had a message in about a decade.

Cook and serve them their dinner:  I do carry out about 4 times per week for all meals.  I cook the balance myself.  Yesterday breakfast was bacon, eggs on sour dough bread. OJ, strawberries.  Lunch was was boneless chicken thighs cooked in the crock pot in an Asian sauce, served over white rice, side salad.  Dinner was frozen store bought meat loaf, store bought mashed potatoes, asparagus.

Give them a new tattoo:  I don't have any tattoos.

Watch their spoiled brats because they are already sick of them:  My kids are employed adults, and no one other than their parents ever watched them past the age of 12.

Walk their dogs:  I no longer have a dog, but no one over walked mine.  I installed an invisable fence at my last three houses.  In the neighborhood that I grew up in, the dogs walked themselves.

Take care for their elderly parents so they don't have to:  My parents have been dead for abouit 15 years.

They are done wiping grandma's ass and they aren't going to take it anymore:  My last living grandma died 48 years ago.

Make no mistake.  Mark dreams about using the pandemic as a means to eliminate capitalism and invoke a state directed economy.  He really believes 30 Million unemployed American workers aren't 'essential'.  They are traitorous Republican slobs.  They shall not go back to their old jobs or small businesses.  They will be directed to the meatpacking plants or the gulags or they can starve.  The longer we keep the economy locked down, the sooner its foundation collapses which he believes can be rebuilt into a socialist utopia….Like China.

In NY, the counties above Dutchess/Orange have less than 1,000 cases, most are under 100 & many are under 20.

There is no reason these counties can't reopen. Those that want or need to stay home would be free to do so. 

There is a path "out." Unfortunately, people are wandering off it, with Republican encouragement.

I can think of no argument more stupid than, "We haven't got it here, so we never will." However, that's the current narrative.

I guess I'll have to resign myself to the fact that those in power have decided that corporate profits (they apparently can't survive seven weeks of slow business!!) are more important than my life or yours. AMURRICA!