So, apparently their income threshold for the first round of stimulus cheques was $99 000. How on earth does someone with almost 100K income need a stimulus cheque?
I was saying to someone from North Dakota just yesterday, that the world was opening up and getting back to work.
He considered that to be an idiotic statement, because "American businesses never closed, but people don't want to work. The virus has been blown out of proportion and people are sitting at home living off their stimulus cheques." Unquote.
Can anyone wrap their brain around the American approach?
1. Don’t mandate the closure of businesses.
2. Hand out stimulus cheques to everyone, whether they are unemployed or not.
3. Complain about people not going to work.
Unfortunately, the response to to Covid runs the gamut among our communities - from very conscientious about social distancing, travel restrictions, and PPE - to doing almost nothing at all. The latter has led to some cases of stigmatization.
TBD - depends on the contact tracing results. The person who originally had the virus has recovered. They were extremely sick for 2 - 3 days, approx. 10 days altogether.
It is not Netley. But we are once again closed to visitors until things settle down. Without divulging too much info - I will just say that travel to Alberta is probably a bad idea.
There was a mange outbreak in our area over the winter. But I saw some healthy looking fox pups yesterday, so I’ll take that as a sign that the population is recovering. By the way, stray cats that can look after themselves are fantastic for rodent control.
No, but let's go back to United States for a minute.
They have almost a quarter of the deaths on the globe. That is a shoddy record for a western democracy, no matter how many states are flattening the curve. I think a country has to own all of their data.