And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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fj12ryder wrote:Do you read the news? Farm workers are being hit hard with this. Things are not looking good...rexlion wrote:Considering the most serious of issues will be in high population density areas, there should be no reason not to get harvesting and planting going. Having a blanket restriction policy isn't necessarily a smart way to go about it. Big cities and high population density areas need to have different restrictions than non-urban areas.
We can't wait 18 months to open up the country again. Not with crops rotting in the fields in Florida and California right now, and more crops due to be picked in the next weeks, and spring planting that must take place on time.
When we were asked to agree to give up our liberties due to this virus, we were promised that it would only be in place long enough to flatten the curve of new hospitalization cases. The curve in the US is past peak or peaking (depending upon the locale) right now. We the people should expect the government to keep its word and lift restrictions in the next week or two. Anything else is a betrayal of the citizens' trust.
America is the breadbasket of the world; 18 months of shutdown could cause mass starvation. Here's a story from NBC: crops rotting in fields
No - I'm not going to cite any particular news source - just do a google search with the words farmworkers and coronavirus.
