Covid is very real. on election night I had a marketing meeting with my business partner,my severely disabled 22 year old son,my coffee manager and a team leader. we sat down at a local watering hole and had appetizers while planning out our upcoming month. my coffee manager who has worked with me for 5 years is one of the sickliest 20 something's I have known. she was feeling bad. next day had a fever . she stayed home from work for 2 days and cane back. Still not feeling well,she went and got a Rona test. Sunday came back positive.
We immediately closed our business which lasted a week and tested everyone who came into contact with her. ALL the tests came back negative. She tested a week later it was still positive. Now, I am not denying this virus exists at all. I am saying though I sat 3 feet away eating for an hour or more from a Covid positive patient as well as 3 other people and we didn't contract it. No masks,no nothing.
my story is purely anecdotal of course. Maybe the virus is mutating and becoming weaker ?
Y'all came blame Trump all you want. if it makes you feel better. What ever. what is real here are a few things. The media HATES Trump and they will go out of their way to ding the guy while going out of their way to make people like Cuomo and Newsone, Whitmire and locally my Governor,Governor Cooper look like heroes with their decrees and stepping on the Constitution.
What is also real is our overcreaction to it. People die. They die of the flu, diabetes, cancer,heart disease, emphysema, drowning and on and on. We don't shut the economy down for the flu. This virus has been politicized beyond anything I have ever seen.. That's the problem. The stupid media is the core problem here.
I am installing HEPA air purifiers in my business that also have UV sterilizers and titanium oxide filtration that kills 99.7%of all aersolized bacteria and virus passing through the filter. I am doing it because it's real. With that said if my Governor orders non-essential businesses to close I am likely going to give that bastard the middle finger.
if you are susceptible to this virus,have all those risk factors and such, then you need to take responsibility for you. Don't put your health issues and limitations on the rest of us. We wear masks ,we social distance and in my stores I am kicking it up a notch to improve safety of my crew and my guests. If you are unsure about travel,going into stores,shopping, or what ever then please take responsibility for yourself ,act in a way that you are comfortable with the risks and rewards for any given behavior.
Lockdowns and closing small businesses is not the solution here. To all my fellow liberal knight friends here. if we go into this locdown and non-essential closures are you going to take the moral high road and stroke the pen in your check book and give all these closed businesses some cash? See we are all in the same storm together but make no mistake about it, most of you are not in the same boat as these small businesses. you get to get paid working on from zoom while these business owners suffer. You don't have make any real sacrafice while these business sacrafice their livelihoods and retirement. You don't have to face telling people you care about that they are being laid off. So, I say put up or shut up about the lockdowns ,closures and such. Again the virus is very real our response to it is very political.
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