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Bee-otched For: wanting to reopen America a little too early
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: wanting to reopen America a little too early
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Sometimes, you have to wait for the things you want.
For the past few weeks, many Americans have been staying home, only doing out for essentials. Many should be at work, but they're home instead because their jobs aren't essential enough per the rules of their state.
Here in Michigan, you can't sit a restaurant, go to the movies or go to a concert. Now, COVID-19 has killed off the main reason why millions come to Traverse City every year: the Cherry Festival.
Today, the event's organizers decided to cancel the popular tourist trap, which pumps some $25 million into the area's economy. The event is known for its parades, cherry pie-eating contests and concerts loaded with Country and Rock.
The concerts that had been confirmed for this year's Festival were 1980s butt rockers REO Speedwagon and 1990s alt-rockers Collective Soul and Everclear on a double bill on another evening.
No word on what will happen to another Traverse City fan favorite, the Traverse City Film Festival. It's expected that its organizer, Michael Moore will announce what will happen to this year's festival - usually held the first week in August - sooner or later.
Here in Grand Rapids, the annual B93 Birthday Bash has been moved to August amid COVID-19 concerns. It was scheduled for June.
Now, granted, warm, muggy days will kill COVID-19. In China, where it originated, the disease is all but gone. It's also very hot in China, with temps in the 70s. Arizona is currently in the 80s and only 3.800 people have been infected by the virus. Michigan - which had snow yesterday - has over 29,000 cases.
With Lansing being littered with illiterate hillbillies yesterday all begging for Governor Whitmer to be recalled, some people are calling for Michigan and other states to reopen. The sooner, the better. Curve, or no curve. Vaccine, or no vaccine.
As I reported yesterday, 400 people at a Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, SD all tested positive for coronavirus. And yet, it's an essential business because they make food. People are still dying from COVID-19 because they have to enter the front line every day. These people are nurses, doctors, grocers and others. Should somebody die because they helped somebody who seemed healthy try on a shoe at Foot Locker? How about a waitress who served a family whose kid sneezed all over her with the virus? Or even hundreds of music fans at a concert?
Tonight, Drumpf revealed a plan to reopen the economy. True, work helps keep the world moving, it's worth asking if it's even worth infecting even more Americans for it. It's true that not all states have a stay-at-home order like Michigan's. But, our state needed it because there's more people with coronavirus than those who live in Traverse City.
True, the warm Summer temps will shrink COVID-19 cases, but they will flare up in the Fall. Some even speculate that if coronavirus comes back, it will be with a severe vengeance.
Look, forcing people to get sick is definitely not a good way to get the world moving again. I know, there's some businesses struggling to survive. Look at the movie business: for the past few weeks, there's speculation that AMC might be going bankrupt. Then again, guess who partially owns AMC? THE CHINESE! Goodrich Quality Theatres here in Michigan also filed for bankruptcy prior to COVID-19 and it's not clear if they will reopen or not.
I simply think it's sad that Drumpf and others want to reopen the country when not everybody is cured of this disease. Then again, it's Drumpf's fault for ignoring everybody like any good little Repuke.
I know. We can't sit around forever. I personally have more faith in the scientists trying to save us vs. the assholes trying to create a hostile environment where safety doesn't mean shit. I have a friend who works in a medical supply factory and one of her jobs is to take peoples' temperatures. Anything over a 99.4 and they're sent home. However, not all restaurants and grocers can do that and a lot of other workplaces, too.
Folks, we need to listen to scientists and not assholes like Drumpf and governors who haven't issued stay-at-home orders. I think our health and safety is a hellvua lot more important than being at a place where getting sick is imminent. If we can, we ALL need to stay home unless we need to shop. And if businesses do go under because of COVID-19, it's all because the owners of those businesses all voted for an asshole president who denied its existence until people started dying from it.
Of course, it was George Carlin who said, "it's one giant club, and you ain't in it!" Well, the Rethugs are creating a club for those in the middle class, and it's at the graveyard.
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