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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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Well that's awesome I guess what I meant to say is out of the 22 million people who lost their livelihood this year, 1.4 million are advantaged and will see the fastest recovery in earning potential due to the fact that they are healthcare workers. Personally I wouldn't redistribute wealth even more toward that segment but my cruelty knows no bounds.
Do you know who else is working hazardously during this terrible time? Coal miners. Coal miners are essential because if we stop mining coal even for a minute we lose power to 40% of the country and millions will die. So now in addition to the regular black lung they also get bonus covid lung and I've not heard one single person not one single person in the world mention the men who are keeping all those ventilators powered and the rest of us just a tiny bit further from a paroxysm of unlit chaos. They sit packed 40 to a car on the way down the shaft and knees apart on the lateral transport and no one talks about hazard pay for these way more essential people because coal miners aren't whiny bitches on the gram.
It's like giving firefighters bonuses for fighting fires or cops extra pay for shooting black people. To all the people complaining, just do your job and die if you have to. Try to have a little dignity for fucks sake and be a little stoic about it, there's been people digging tunnels with their fingernails out of concentration camps before you, have a little respect and get some perspective about the amount of danger you're in and the sacrifice you're being asked to make.
There's plenty of things that irritate me about the bloody Limeys, but I always appreciated their ability to die with dignity.
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If you get to hide in your home and receive unemployment, and if we’re collectively agreeing this virus is so dangerous that everyone needs to “shelter in place,” then people who are forced to have massive amounts of human contact deserve hazard pay. If you disagree, send your unemployment and $1200 check back to the US treasury. Otherwise, write your congressman asking for healthcare workers to receive hazard pay.
Coal is only essential because this country is too stupid to understand nuclear energy. It is absolutely not essential to any degree. And firefighters should get hazard pay for having to work right now. Again, if we face a societal “shelter in place,” anyone having to face the clearly dangerous thing requiring us to shelter in place should receive an incentive to do so, and they are certainly more deserving than McDonald’s burger flippers who are now making $900 a week in unemployment
I’ll send you what to write in your letter to congress. Hope this helps!