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|    Intelligent Party to All    |
|    COVID WILL COME RIGHT BACK AFTER ANY REN    |
|    30 Oct 20 18:15:30    |
      XPost: fl.politics, houston.politics, az.politics       XPost: alt.abortion, talk.abortion       From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com              So any present or continuing COVID regulations have to be made sustainable.        That       is, *they are forever!*              A vaccine may be here in three weeks, or not in three years. No one can       predict       the future.              People may decide they want to get COVID - but then I guess supposedly they       have       to quarantine. You may want to send your children to COVID camp, to get it       over with.              When you speak, tiny specks of spit are coming out of your mouth if you are not       wearing a mask. You can see them in the afternoon sun. You can always cover       your       face with a t-shirt if somebody approaches.              So dine-in restauranting is entirely circumspect. Though 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,       waiters       and busboys are not producing any equity, but rather are performing a       non-essential service and committing self-danger and self-harm, for other's       entertainment.              COVID regulations should all be based on employee and consumer protections.              Consumers merely need advisement. Prohibition has no place for consumer's       sake.       Yet employment of self-harm would be rightfully prohibited, but if you are to       take       someone's job away, and other people's opportunities away, be they already       unemployed; you must provide society with education, and ability to find new       employment - that means cash at the bottom.              COVID, and other national emergencies and travails, exemplify the hardships of       poverty. Socialism of my sort, has merit in the first place, in times of       trouble       it becomes all the more pertinent. Refer to my "SAFETHIC " acronym posts for a       definition of my sort of socialism.              Nepotism - favoritism to your relatives, is unfair. It is unjust. If       socialism       is right, it is owed, not given.                     You have a right to free association, you have a right to go to Church. But       you       should intelligently temper your exercise of these rights yourself. Just like       smoking kills, don't smoke. You have a right to suicide, yet we'd all       encourage       you not to commit it. But Corporations are marketing cigarettes as recreation       and       not as a suicide act. Restaurants and bars and nightclubs are marketing       dinning-in, and commercial parties, as recreation, and not as suicide acts.       Consumers merely need advisement. Prohibition has no place for consumer's       sake.       Theoretically. But there's not enough advisement on cigarettes.              Prohibition for the sake of consumer's can't work, whenever a black market       would       spring up. But prohibition for the sake of employees is another thought,       especially when there is an employing middle man between the employee and the       consumer, as there usually is. Hiring a prostitute, then, could be like paying       someone to self cut, for your amusement, rather than for a profit. That is       where       things get more tricky. That is, being both the employer and the consumer at       the       same time, is where prohibition of employment gets more questionable. Madams       and       Pimps wouldn't much exist if prostitute's individual right to sell were       protected.        And if they are not of a criminal element, those such as Madams and Massage       Parlors can be put out of business, through fines against their business, not       their person.              I mean, the point is, that you could prohibit employment for a reason. For the       sake of stopping employment of needless self-harm, if it is so determined it       is,       and prostitution, like being a Waiter, is a non-essential service for       entertainment. And neither produces any equity nor builds the economy. But       both       the employee and the individual, must always be protected, and the business the       target of the legal object.                     COVID will come right back after any renewed shutdown.              COVID grew from a few cases in the first place. You're not going to eradicate       for       three month 100%. So everything must be sustainable, or it's on/off, off/on,       on/off, off/on, forever.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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