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You can apply for unemployment if your hours are cut significantly, I know several folks doing that right now.
Edit: of course a bunch of management will still do that, just to give people the impression that they weren't "fired" and therefore aren't eligible.
When I was doing restaurant work, cutting someone’s shifts used to be a tool to get people to quit without firing them. American employment protections are fucked.
That's why I said you don't call in sick.
You report that you're not displaying any symptoms but could potentially be a carrier, and if your boss invites you to come in to work anyway and customers/co-workers get sick as a result, then that's on him.
This isn’t the kind of thing you rules lawyer your way around. It’s a “Fuck you for not being rich and living in the South” kind of thing.
Georgia and its neighbors have been rules lawyering to keep that the case since before the nation was born. Can’t beat them at their own game.
It's really hard to have any system succeed with bad faith actors representing any amount of it.
*wave my hand*
It shows how weak and unenforced our system was and how much it was built on norms and legacy not enforceable laws. Also how much damage the two party system causes with in it. Something even early architects said was dangerous.
Plenty of non-federalist systems have face planted hard in the pandemic. Not just us. And it is more about leadership, trust, and willingness to take action even sacrifices for the long term greater good. Also probably a bit of humility.
None of which our leadership at the federal level have done. And really the federalist system is the only reason some parts of the country will end up with less issues than others. It provided a small backstop for parts of the population at least.
Also showed how dangerous our current media climate is as well.
It's going to escalate quickly.
Edit: I'm on mobile but it happened in Meridian (?) Idaho. The lady is part of a batshit Facebook group with some very libertarian monetary support.
Sure, so is Germany. Turkey isn't federal. Canada is.
Turns out, having a bad government is possible, irrespective of having a federal or centralised system.
The federal government is not the problem in this case. This is a moment when a powerful executive, and a diverse assembly of states with highly varying economic targets and population densities should be an IMMENSE advantage to the United States. The problem is Donald Trump. The problem is that we have an executive who is not just bad. He is 'anti-good'. He is physically incapable of doing the right thing.
At every step, he has squandered our advantages, prevented us using our resources and even ruined what little hope we have of allies helping us recover.
When Boris Johnson became sick, I hoped for his recovery because stability is better than chaos. In Trumps case, I hope he knocks himself unconscious for 4 months and Pence has to take over.
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John Cook is a cartoonist.
I know its an old saying that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into but it is so frustrating to watch.
This person almost overnight flipped from "The number is much higher than reported, they're not even testing people unless you're rich or connected!" to "This whole thing is overblown and we never should have shut down the economy for a flu!"
I can only hope they keep following the recommendations for social distancing, there are others in this house who are especially at risk from COVID.
can't get better data than that, no sirree.
Ask them both how and why they would do this.
Makes sense. Unlike Trump, ICP will admit when they don't know how something works (see also: magnets)
Once again, nobody thinks the leopard will eat their face.
He just wants to look powerful, have his ego stroked, and take the credit for anything good.
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