Coronavirus thread tangent

So you are going to punish all the Citizens of a State because of how an elected official responded during a crisis?

Ok, so really you just think blue states should get money and this is your qualifier to use that isn’t strictly red versus blue state. Got it.

But all your reasons for punishing the people of Alabama were because they vote Republican.

We help the people there for the same reason we help the people everywhere. They are Americans and yes this is a special situation. Even if you think there should be expanded programs permanently, you know this is a unique situation.

No, it is because states like SC, GA, LA, IA, and others are not following the recommendations. Hell, the rightwing legislature in KS just overruled their Dem governor who had shut down religious services of 10 or more. Well, then let God send them small business relief.

Umm everyone qualifies, the money was running out so they put in more money. There is zero need to say only certain people can get it. Doing that means some people that need it might not get it. The President has said he'll keep putting in more if it's needed!

Well states that aren't shutdown, aren't laying people off so why would they qualify? At the same time certain fields regardless of state are having issues, look at oil companies for example. Yeah I think they should get it to keep people employed. Nevermind just because they aren't closed now, doesn't mean they won't be if cases rise.

You get this is for small businesses right? You want to hurt them because you don't like their Governor's?

You realize that no one wins an election unanimously right? And I’m pretty sure no one was asking their Governor would you listen to recommendations from the Federal Government during a world pandemic during the last election. Your reasons feel like they are driven from a place of spite and despite being a Democrat who’s supposedly compassionate for those less fortunate, you want to stick it to the evil religious Republicans in these States. Even if it means the suffering of all the Democrats in those States. I just don’t understand how that aligns with what I’d guess to be your values. Then again I don’t know you so I probably shouldn’t assume.

That sounds like a state issue, in Massachusetts they did just that. Had Americans come back from China and be put into qurantine. It's amazing with a Republican Governor isn't it?

But you credited Trump.

I actually just consulted someone at the State department who said quarantining returning Americans is not happening. So... huh.

I feel like goal posts are being moved around. There are minority owners in the Red States you are mad at too so I’m not sure what one has to do with the other. I wasn’t getting involved in whether or not funds should be earmarked for minority owners. Feels like a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist OR a nonsolution to a problem that does exist. Quite frankly I don’t know enough about it.

And no it’s not irrational to be fed up with Mitch McConnell nor is it irrational to be fed up with Nancy Pelosi. Frankly, I’m fed up with almost all of them so you won’t find me criticizing you for being Fed up with certain politicians.

Here's a stranded American's view. I pretty much 100% agree with the entire video and it's the reason I say it starts with the people not the government. I don't know where he is in Davao but he's likely within 3-8 miles of me as the chickens fly.

I usually go to Davao 5-6 times a month but haven't been for about the last month or so but everything he said correlates with what our family friends are saying in social media about Davao so, I assume it's accurate.

Our city by city tracker is down right now but there are about 60 active cases in Davao area which has a population of about 5 million. I'm totally blown away by the reaction on our island. Still no cases but everything he said is the same here as well in spite of no positive cases. The mayor says something and pretty much everyone does it. We also have volunteers at pretty much every side street along the highway stopping people and taking their temperatures, checking for masks, spraying hands before they go into the various residential areas. We just shut down all the ferries to Davao for private passengers for a week. That means most of our larger stores, banks, etc. are closed for the week since there are a large number of employees that come from Davao to work in Samal. The wet market and smaller locally run stores are still open but most you can't go in. You tell a worker out front what you want and he gets it for you. Same with our gov't offices.

LOL, no paper shortages here, this is a washing country, not a wiping country. I tell my American visitors they need to carry a roll of paper while traveling in the Philippines. It's also a 220 volt country, not 110.

Here it’s hard to get certain things like disinfectants. Lysol spray and Clorox wipes those types of things. Toilet paper can be had but you often have to go multiple times to get it. We do mostly grocery delivery now and it’s not easy to get everything on your list but you’re certainly not going to starve.