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In Texas Judge tried to make a salon admit that she was selfish for opening her hair salon. She said would not because trying to feed her children is not selfish. Crazy Judge sentenced her to jail for 7 days and fined her $7,000. A lot of folks are mad - Selfishness is not a crime -
Video of Judge and Salon owner verbal exchange is included in article.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick defends jailed salon owner: ‘She should be home for Mother’s Day’
[www.foxnews.com]
Selfishness is not a crime.
Defying State orders and ripping up Cease-and-Desist letters from a judge in front of the media, then defying them, most definitely are.
Even then, the judge stated that all she has to do is apologize, and promise to abide by the law, and she would be released.
Maybe I should turn myself in as I broke the rules yesterday by getting a haircut. By the Way - In Massachusetts, if you do not wear a mask a $1000 fine will be levied. Source:- Fox TV News Morning Show
So..was the judge selfish for going to work? I am just wondering.
Not at all as his job has been deemed essential, and it is.
Selfishness is defying the laws and isolation measures, for vanity.
I had a haircut yesterday too. Shaved neck, the whole bit and cheaper.
$35 for a set of clippers online, and I feel "normal" again
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Why was ok for the judge and everyone else in the courtroom to go to work. Why was it ok to make her show up in a court room?
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Why was ok for the judge and everyone else in the courtroom to go to work. Why was it ok to make her show up in a court room?
My wife works as an emergency dispatcher.
My friend works as a police officer.
My cousin works as a firefighter.
Would you prefer if you have a fire or an emergency that the line just rings and rings while your house burns?
You get the need for "essential" workers, yes?
Nurses, doctors, police, judges certainly are.
Barbers, salon workers, waiters, definitely aren't.
Not rocket science.
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Every job is essential to the person that needs to make a house payment of feed their kids.
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Every job is essential to the person that needs to make a house payment of feed their kids.
Which is why trillions of dollars in grants, loans, unemployment ins., et al are being made available, which we all are paying for to help people get through. Along with countless other measures.
No one said slowing/stopping a pandemic would be easy.
The alternative is a lot more death.
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
The social distancing is a great idea...but once you enter a store that all goes away. When you step up to pay. There is not 6 feet anymore. And then you exchange money. So as far at the social distancing stuff. Does not work at a store.
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
The social distancing is a great idea...but once you enter a store that all goes away. When you step up to pay. There is not 6 feet anymore. And then you exchange money. So as far at the social distancing stuff. Does not work at a store.
For two months now, all our grocery stores have had these one meter lines, lining up people 1m i.e. 3ft apart. Also we have plexiglass between the cash register person and us, also other places in the stores.
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Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
The social distancing is a great idea...but once you enter a store that all goes away. When you step up to pay. There is not 6 feet anymore. And then you exchange money. So as far at the social distancing stuff. Does not work at a store.
For two months now, all our grocery stores have had these one meter lines, lining up people 1m i.e. 3ft apart. Also we have plexiglass between the cash register person and us, also other places in the stores.
Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
The social distancing is a great idea...but once you enter a store that all goes away. When you step up to pay. There is not 6 feet anymore. And then you exchange money. So as far at the social distancing stuff. Does not work at a store.
For two months now, all our grocery stores have had these one meter lines, lining up people 1m i.e. 3ft apart. Also we have plexiglass between the cash register person and us, also other places in the stores.
Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
In most of Europe, cash use is in sharp decline. The vast majority of people pay by debit or credit card. Here in UK for debit card transactions below £45GBP, it isn't even necessary to enter a PIN. You tap your card against an optical card reader. Most people wear gloves for shopping here and many masks too.
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Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
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Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
Receive cash in your gloved hand, put it in your pocket that you don't normally use and then wash it in warm soapy water when you get home. (Money in the UK is metal, of course but our banknotes are now plastic, so no problem if you're oraganised.
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Yes... but what happens when you exchange cash?
Receive cash in your gloved hand, put it in your pocket that you don't normally use and then wash it in warm soapy water when you get home. (Money in the UK is metal, of course but our banknotes are now plastic, so no problem if you're oraganised.
But isn't that Money Laundering?
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I think in some cases - social distancing is impossible. The Salon/ Barber business is a good example. But when I got my haircut, Purell was used to clean hands for both my barber and myself.
How are diners ever going to reopen if everyone is required to wear masks? The Restaurant and Pub businesses are screwed. Social Distancing will not provide enough income for these businesses to survive.
The social distancing is a great idea...but once you enter a store that all goes away. When you step up to pay. There is not 6 feet anymore. And then you exchange money. So as far at the social distancing stuff. Does not work at a store.
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There are hundreds of measures taken now, across the world. Hairdressers, gyms, grocery stores, bus drivers, kindergartens, cleaning tubes and buses, washing hands, all of this done in the world's largest fight to slow down the virus. Then it does not matter if one or a few hairdressers are not making everything right, or one or a few bakeries can or will not do everything right.
It is the beauty of statistics and large numbers. While a few will fail in slowing down the virus, the large majority will be smart and succeed.
The virus will be contained. Most people are smart. Most people understand.
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Every job is essential to the person that needs to make a house payment of feed their kids.
Which is why trillions of dollars in grants, loans, unemployment ins., et al are being made available, which we all are paying for to help people get through. Along with countless other measures.
No one said slowing/stopping a pandemic would be easy.
The alternative is a lot more death.
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Where is this money coming from?
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Where is this money coming from?
Basically, the state (the Central bank) is printing more money.
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Where is this money coming from?
Basically, the state (the Central bank) is printing more money.
Is it free money, never to be repaid?
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Georgia is the current pissing section in our pool.
More sections set to open soon.
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Smartphone data shows out-of-state visitors flocked to Georgia as restaurants and other businesses reopened
"One week after Georgia allowed dine-in restaurants, hair salons and other businesses to reopen, an additional 62,440 visitors arrived there daily, most from surrounding states where such businesses remained shuttered, according to an analysis of smartphone location data.
Researchers at the University of Maryland say the data provides some of the first hard evidence that reopening some state economies ahead of others could potentially worsen and prolong the spread of the novel coronavirus. Any impetus to travel, public health experts say, increases the number of people coming into contact with each other and raises the risk of transmission.
“It's exactly the kind of effects we've been worried about,” said Meagan Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine."
[www.washingtonpost.com]
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In Texas Judge tried to make a salon admit that she was selfish for opening her hair salon. She said would not because trying to feed her children is not selfish. Crazy Judge sentenced her to jail for 7 days and fined her $7,000. A lot of folks are mad - Selfishness is not a crime -
Video of Judge and Salon owner verbal exchange is included in article.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick defends jailed salon owner: ‘She should be home for Mother’s Day’
[www.foxnews.com]
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It was not selfish. The people that came to see her made their own decisions. She need the money to provide for her family. Same as the judge. That showed up for work. I guess he is selfish also then.
These are generally the same people who holler " all they had to do is listen to the police and not resist!" when an unarmed person is shot by an officer.
The people that attended Covid parties in my state also made their own decisions.
On average they then had contact with twenty-five people afterwards. Twenty five people exposed to the virus, who then have contact with twenty-five people each, who they then had contact with...
And then people who didn't decide to defy laws get sick and die, and as the numbers rise, we all have to start isolation measures from scratch.
Definitely selfish, but also ignorant.
Why was ok for the judge and everyone else in the courtroom to go to work. Why was it ok to make her show up in a court room?