“These policies could have saved hundreds of lives but it inconvenienced me a tiny bit so I will not stand for it!”
If you think government overreach during covid ‘inconvenienced’ people a ‘tiny bit’ you’re crazy.
My wife lost her job 3x, 3 different jobs, all because the government kept shutting down businesses.
Even my barber lost his business, I donated to a go fund me he put up to try to save it, but it wasn’t enough.
Because he stepped out in his own and took the risk of starting his own business (dude had 5 kids and he and his wife both ran the barbershop together) but hadn’t been in business for two years or whatever, the government shut him down and didn’t pay him anything.
He still had to pay rent on the space though, he still had to pay his loans to get the business up and running. I hope he’s recovered somewhat financially from that, but he never returned to that business.
Maybe he killed himself, I sure hope not, but people surely did.
So no, government overreach didn’t ‘inconvenience’ people ‘a little bit’
It hurt a lot of people.
C’mon man. Why do you have to lie like this? Everyone has a barber that didn’t go out of business, so we obviously know they survived. Do you see an epidemic of long haired people walking around searching for their missing hair salons?
All these small businesses could get PPP loans to pay their salaries. These loans were forgiven as well; fucking free money for every small barber. In fact, it was so easy to get this money plenty of people claimed to be “barbers” and defrauded the program. All you had to do is sign up for it. No proof was needed.
If your guy went out of business with free money coming in, he’s pretty bad at business.
Are you trying to convince me that small business owners didn’t go out of business due to government shut downs?
And you call me a liar, give me a break
Https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cfib-survey-1.5882059
New experimental estimates of monthly business openings and closuresNote show that in April 2020 alone, more than 100,000 employer businesses (13.6% of active employer businesses in February) closed. These business closures contributed to 30% of job losses that month.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2021003/article/00003-eng.htm
And yet you were complaining about eating on a bench rather than a table because you forgot your ID. No lockdowns, no shuttered businesses, just you eating in a less comfortable place than you could have eaten if you’d carried your license.
If that’s your take you missed his point.
His point was obviously that’s it’s stupid that he couldn’t eat in the food court but could eat at a bench in the exact same mall.
Nope, just governmental incompetence as usual.
No conspiracy needed. Government is simply incompetent. Which is why you shouldn’t have them making decision that effect your life as much as we allowed them to during covid.
But lemmy users just love to put big daddy government in charge of everything they can think of. Idiots
I think most rational people understand it was more than an inconvenience. But weighed against the fact that some areas literally had to bring in refrigerated semi trailers to store dead bodies because there wasn’t anywhere else to put them, and how much worse it could have been without some restrictions, many people think it was a reasonable temporary trade-off.
The thing is, ten years from now, people are going to actually believe your lies. That’s the scary part. These days? We all know the government didn’t shut down your barber, grow the fuck up.
