What has really changed for essential workers?

In these uncertain times, it's understandable that people are more cautious. Being sanitary and germ free is especially important for front line workers that don't have the ability to work from home.

My question is, what has really changed? Hospital workers have always been exposed to illnesses, yet they happily go home to their families without a 2nd thought. If wearing a mask and washing your hands is new to them during this "pandemic"...why? As a healthcare worker, they should have already been doing those things, long before now. Otherwise, they put everyone at risk.

Grocery & gas station workers have been exposed on a daily basis as well. The main difference is that now, less people are coming into the store and more people are wearing masks, which should lessen their exposure to illness more than ever before. 

I get being concerned about contracting an illness while at work but I don't get the people that are having a fit about working. Do you know how many people are out of work, making no money, with no way to support their families? As an essential worker, you're still able to go forward with daily life, pay your bills and provide for your family. If you feel the risk is too high, you're free to take time off, quit your job, etc. Do you really want to be in the position that millions of others find themselves? Unable to out food on the table and pay their rent? 

Front line workers have always been at risk for contracting, and spreading, illnesses. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the increased use of PPE and the reduced # of people out which, overall, actually reduces the chances that a front line worker will get sick. 

While I appreciate all these people and know that the country couldn't keep running without them, I say, I appreciate you but you chose this as a job/career. You put your health at risk every day you go to work. Not much has changed. 

Be happy you still have a job and a way to support your family. Take pride that what you do is helping the economy and your fellow Americans. 

And remember, millions would trade places with you in a heartbeat. 

It's all in your perspective. 

Hypocritical People

These days, it seems people have a hard time making up their minds what they really stand for. I can certainly understand changing your beliefs as you get older, wiser, more experienced. What I can't understand are these people that say "we can't open the economy because some older folks might get sick and die", preceded by their celebrations of women that claim the day they had their abortion was "the best day of their lives". If you feel it's ok to kill a full term baby, just so the mother isn't inconvenienced, I find it hard to believe you really give a damn about a few old people dying from covid-19. Especially when the death toll of this virus is still lower than that of the common flu.

Studies have shown that there's a good chance that tens of thousands of people have already had it (as they have antibodies) and didn't even know they did. It's not the plague. Yes, it hits some people very hard, and they may die. But people die from other common illnesses every day. If you really care about saving people, why are you ok with abortion? Kind of hypocritical, isn't it? If you want to save people, why are you fighting to block access to the drug combination that several doctors have used with a nearly 100% success rate?

That was a rhetorical question. I know the answer. The only people that I have ever seen that are against the use of hydroxychloriquine are those that are hell bent on proving President Trump wrong. And the politicians and MSM are the worst. They claim he's trying to make money off the drug, but several articles have been published that verify his stake in these companies is so small, it's not even worth mentioning.

They claim he got a man killed because he was telling people to take fish tank cleaner, when in reality the guy and his wife should have known better than to just take some random cleaning product that was sitting around the house. They were in their 60's and there's no excuse for someone being that stupid. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

How about we all stop blaming for the stupidity of others and start trying to make ourselves better.

The lying MSM and our acceptance of it

I find it incredibly disgusting that you cannot read a single headline from the MSM these days that isn't laced with biased attacks on whichever side of the political spectrum the writer doesn't agree with. I can certainly understand a personal blogger being biased in their headlines but, why are we so accepting of these national news companies that continue to print biased stories, filled with false information and "evidence" that turns out to be from a completely different scenario years ago?

There should be laws in place that punish news outlets that continue to publish articles that aren't factual and unbiased. These aren't hometown bloggers that are expressing their personal opinions. These are, supposed to be, news outlets that keep the country informed of what is happening. Instead, they've all turned into gossip rags that just want to get their story out first, regardless of whether it's accurate or not.

For the writer or "journalist" reporting the fake news, they are suspended for a month without pay for their first offense. A 2nd offense, is immediate termination and they are barred from working for any other news outlet for a minimum of 2 years.

For the company that allowed the article to be published. They are fined 1 million dollars for every infraction with that money being donated to organizations in their area that take care of homeless veterans, etc.

We shouldn't be willing to accept their excuses of "oops, we picked the wrong photo" or "our source was mistaken". They should be required to take the time to investigate what really happened and not publish a story until they know the facts. Stop speculating and accepting information from anonymous sources. If you can't vet the source and verify their information, you shouldn't publish it.

I'm sick of the bias and even more pissed off at the fact that people are so accepting of this bullshit. Yes, people make mistakes but if you're going into the business of reporting news to the public, you should be required to act with some sense of morality and truthfulness. Problem is, most of the country is filled with immoral people. I mean, if they are willing to kill full term babies because the mother doesn't want to be inconvenienced, what do we expect? But that's a completely different subject for another blog post.