<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:15 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6938961482356507544WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_6938961482356507544WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> > </span></span><i>Politicians do not have any authority to compel people to either stop whining or to get back to work. </i></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Nobody worker been sent to the gulag, at least not yet, but Republican politicians want workers fired if they refuse to go back to work, and getting fired during a pandemic is really scary because in the US if you don't have a job you don't have a health plan. To make matters worse Republicans have threatened to deny unemployment benefits from any worker who refuses to go back to work because he feels its unsafe, and have also pushed for new laws that prevent any employer from being sued if one of their workers gets sick or dies from unsanitary conditions. People will remember that and it could make a difference on November 3, assuming the election is not canceled by politicians who figure they won't win.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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