I touched on this topic a bit on one of Hypatia’s posts but want to take it further and discuss why FE is the answer:
- My hairdresser closes her front door, texts all her customers to come through the back and get dropped off so no cars appear in the parking lot. One customer is allowed in at a time and all payment is cash only so there is no paper trail. (I love this woman because her husband is a detective and gave her these tips.)
- Manicure salon has built cloth screens to drape across their tables separating them from their clients and is opening Wednesday. They’re not waiting for the Guv to give them a ‘heads up.’ Clients are politely asked to wear masks and I can assure you, no one is complaining. (As I barely type this with 9 inch nails.)
- Two of our favorite restaurants have outdoor dining so are separating tables six feet apart. Of course they deliver, but they realize we’re all sick to death of eating at home. They are receiving kudos and big tips!
This covers some of the key small businesses in town, but what about big business?
- A little company named Zoom has reached record market highs because they allow CEOs, SVPs, and employees to communicate tous ensemble on their PC at home.
- Car factories in Detroit and elsewhere are bringing in workers by their particular stage on the assembly line. They already work with masks and are stationed six feet apart. They leave and the next shift comes in to complete stage two and so on and so forth… Obviously, mass production is suffering but product is being made and employees are getting paychecks.
- No more studio broadcasts as the MSM continues to report on the story, but see point #1 for credit there. I look forward to the Greg Gutfeld show every Saturday night but it is odd to see everyone at home and not on the sofa or stuffed armchair. (I’ll get over it even though I miss Tyrus’ massive bulk on set.)
There are certainly businesses that are not able to adapt so easily but I, for one, applaud those who have figured it out.
Go Capitalism!
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Kudos to all you’ve described here, Liz; we have got to get back to being “the land of the *free*”, and the “home of the *brave””. P.S. Are you also listening to music by “Nine-Inch Nails” as you type? Curious. 🙂
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Pleased that you caught that double entendre, Nanda. 🙂
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Nifty!
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A few days ago I wrote about Schuylkill Co announcing it was going to reopen May 15. There are several others who did the same.
Wellsir, Gov Wolf knows how to deal with THEM! In any county that reopens before the date of his royal fiat, he will revoke all the liquor licenses. He will also,withhold any federal subsidies. He will also not allow the state fund to pay out workers’ compensation in case of employee injury.
Oh God, I’m sick of being so angry all the time….
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No wonder you angry with a governor like that! I thought Massachusetts was bad, last I checked we are set to open May 18th, and we are one of the worst states for covid. What is going on in Pennsylvania?
I can kind of understand places like NYC and Mass. where it has been bad, being skittish about reopening, but Maine had something like 50 cases and the governor there wants to shut down indefinitely, this whole thing is just ridiculous.
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OMG, I just saw footage of the governor of PA; he says that counties that want to reopen are “deserting in the face of the enemy”?!?!?! No wonder you are pissed, Hypatia, that guy is beyond awful
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Somebody on tv said that 2/3 of the deaths in PA happened in nursing homes: 2/3!!!!! That is worse than Massachusetts (1/2) and way worse than New York (1/4), the governor of PA has the worst record in the country, and he is lecturing other people?
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And have you seen our transvestite Secretary of Health? Really, how can someone so patently mentally ill possibly be in that position? Look up Dr Rachel Levine.you will not believe it.
Here’s what I think: all this “trans” stuff is sexual fetishism. People have weird fantasies that turn them on, which is fine. There are people who consider themselves trans-abled, too, and want to cut off a body part or make themselves disabled somehow. But this kinda thing used to be…a secret, something they might indulge just while they’re masturbating, or maybe they could arrange a session with a sex worker who’d help them act it out. Then they’d get on with their job, etc, till next time. But now, it’s like, if this turns me on, why shouldn’t I LIVE it, all the time? Flaunt it? And they do. And anybody else who won’t play along is a bigot. I mean CTFO !that Richard/Rachel guy is a fucking freak show! And we all hafta act like it isnt weird that somebody like that is telling us how to stay healthy? And he’s up there getting off on the fact that everybody else has to struggle with their natural revulsion and desire to laugh out loud? It’s really quite unbearable.
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Just saw on TV that your transvestite Secretary of Health made sure that his/her own mother left the Nursing home during covid, while telling everyone else that nursing homes were perfectly safe.
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To me it’s a miracle his mother has lingered on so long….
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Oh God, I’m sick of being so angry all the time….
Hear that! Fortunately, our governor opened up FL today but the repercussions still exist. A lot of non-corporate working mothers are reluctant to return to their place of employment but I do wonder what that means for the fathers. Do they check into a hotel for a few months?
Our Donald better be helping American businesses even more to transfer production out of that Asian hellhole. I want pressure put upon governors to lower corporate tax rates to level the playing field. Florida’s ex- Governor and current Senator Rick Scott did just that when he was working in Tallahassee.
I want three things:
American corporate tax rates at 11% (as per Ireland’s- the lowest of the first world countries)
Made in America
REVENGE- China loses payback on some of our debt forcing Dems to stop spending recklessly
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“American corporate tax rates at 11%…”
Lowering the corporate tax was part of my Winning the Peace (which some idiot described as nation-building) strategy. I think I argued for 18% but would take 11 or even 10.
I don’t know why Kudlow is not jumping up and down on President Trump’s Resolute desk and demanding this. A corporate tax of 11% would be the death knell of ‘Made in China.’
Dear Lord, please hear Lizzie’s plea! Amen.
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Amen
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We need to be competitive with Ireland because of their highly educated work force.
Good example: Pfizer just moved their HQ to Dublin from NYC. This country just lost over a thousand jobs at the mid to high six figure salary range. A good friend is a marketing manager there and has often discussed that the FDA puts unbelievably onerous burdens on research and development; it costs Pfizer 10-12 years and over a billion dollars to bring a new drug to market which is precisely why drugs are so expensive and why we are the last country left on this planet to develop new medications.
If I hear one more comment on the cheap prices of drugs in Canada, I’ll scream. They produce generics only people!
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“If I hear one more comment on the cheap prices of drugs in Canada, I’ll scream.”
Every time I hear something like that I think to myself: Poor sod has no idea that he is showing his ignorance.
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There would be a flood of new manufacturing if we would lower our corporate tax rate to even 18%. How can America’s Ruling Class be so wealthy and financially ignorant at the same time?
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My copy of Milton Friedman’s ‘Capitalism and Freedom’ has had one too many cups of coffee spilled on it. Please feel free to both ignore and forget that last sentence. It was just a backhanded way of making a reading assignment.
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You haven’t spilled too much coffee Simon; corporate America works around the tax burdens placed upon them by outsourcing to other countries. I am pointing no fingers at them; their job is to make the donuts but the U.S. govt forces CEOs to make them elsewhere. The Don knows this (which is one of the reasons I voted for him) but between impeachment and now the virus, I doubt he’ll get anywhere on this issue in the near future.
I just want to cry about the lost opportunities with a man like that in the WH.
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