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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   You Have A Right To Congregate - So COVID Prohibitions Should All Be Based On   
   Employee And Consumer Protections   
      
   There should be advice at the restaurant, like: "If You Dine Here, You Will   
   Likely   
   Get COVID And Die."   
      
   That should be sufficient for Consumer Protections.   
      
   But as to Employee Protections, if you're going to prohibit employees from   
   being   
   criminally exploited to self-harm; then you have to protect employees by giving   
   them an equal income if their job is stolen by your prohibition.  And if you do   
   so, then employees can make their own decisions whether to work for the money,   
   or   
   not work and take a free hand-out.  Waiters and busboys don't produce any   
   equity   
   nor build the economy anyway.  Their work is non-essential services for your   
   entertainment.  So why doesn't everyone switch to "take-out" anyway.  If   
   waiters   
   and busboys go on spending without working it will not affect the economy.   
      
   Employment is a capital issue, and killing someone off, by laying them off, to   
   save someone else's life, is what you're doing.   
      
   The Restaurant industry employs 10% of the workforce, and 4% of the U.S. GDP,   
   is   
   an $899 Billion industry with 15 million workers, including 2.5 million   
   waiters,   
   and more busboys.   
      
      
   People literally die in the gutter in America.  It's a imperfect and criminally   
   negligent civilization.   
      
   The United States is a crap civilization because it has not lived up to the   
   American dream.   
      
   We're not united when you let people suffer in poverty.   
      
   It's a pretty sad state of affairs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)