Rachel Maddow Program has featured a forum for slaughterhouse unions seeking worker PPE equipment.

Big business in the US isn't against socialism. (Europe has a lot of socialist countries.)  Big business in the US doesn't want the union movement to succeed ever again!  Not on these shores.  Note that immigrant labor can keep wages down in this country and in Japan, etc.

But when meat is considered an essential product, suddenly, the workers in slaughterhouses are people to be listened to; and they don't want to work in hazardous conditions to their health.  Perhaps, now is the time for unions to come back again into the limelight--in the USA.

Compare the government unions to those in industry. 

PCR Testing is what only is useful right now. But testing as President Trump has allowed is a debacle!

MSNBC reported this morning the findings of the University of Minnesota Public Health current study of the testing products for the virus.  Only the PCR tests are useful; and there's plenty of testing products on the market that are of little value.  What a sham!

Donned in PPE equipment; validated by testing, US citizens cautiously yet confidently venture forth to work and play--outside!

On C-SPAN last night, Governor Kemp (R-Georgia) sketched his plan to re-open his state for business and recreation.  It seemed to meet the President's guidelines and was divided into steps to permit gradual upturn in scale to permit constant evaluation at each milestone along the way toward normalization.

If you've been following the Rachel Maddow interviews (on her show) of those analysts and think-tank types tasked with scheduling re-opening at the state-level business and commercial trade, you may have come away impressed by her insistence that those charged with planning adamantly be concerned with the safety and well-being of employees in the plants and industries where close-contact among workers cannot be avoided on the job.  What yeoman work on behalf of workers on the job she's been doing through those interviews!

Truly, we have become awakened by the human spirit within ourselves so to stamp out this hideous virus that would deny us our very breath.

The Human Species is a social animal! Please note, public health professionals!

There are just some facts that no scientist can change.  Importantly, we can't be told to live in hibernation like the bears!

Now that families are huddling together, domestic squabbles have become increasingly violent, sending normal folks to jail on criminal charges to do harm against their relatives!  No scientist can refute the laws of nature: Mankind must live interactively with others of his species on a continual basis.  OR, risk going stir crazy; and acting crazy, too!

I have good friends in Germany, some of whom know Chancellor Merkel well.  They tell me Germany has lent a hand to help nations fighting the virus in neighboring countries.  Gilead Sciences of Chicago, I understand, has come up with a palliative treatment for those persons afflicted by the virus.  So, somethings seem on the horizon to administer to the hospitalized sick with the disease..

The point is, no science should attempt to change human nature such as it is. 

Man, by nature, is a social animal; and must be active, doing things outside, beyond the confines of his domicile--no matter what ail should befall him.  Would that scientists who advocate the "stay in your home" philosophy would acknowledge that simple truth wrought in the human being!

              

Marketing over mass media before the stores and restaurants re-open in US! Now!

News break:  China is reporting, businesses that were closed there during the Pandemic have re-opened but with sparse customers frequenting them.  An eventful flop.
My comment:  Evidently, there was no marketing campaign over the mass media to stimulate 
consumer appetite prior to this event.  They weren't put in the mood to get out of their homes and buy, buy, buy!

Moral:  Before the gala re-opening takes place here, there should be a mass media blitz staged by company marketing departments to get  consumers out of their homes and into the stores, where the bright lights and brand new items to purchase are (whether or not with the label "made in America")!

Please note that Chancellor Merkel from her vantage point sees the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, too, and muses that things will start toward normal before the rains from April showers dry up in her country's street gutters. 

Will President Trump become a new Czar of International Oil Production?

I'm not certain how he could, unless his buddies--the Saudis of OPEC and Putin, whose domain of  oil production quotas extends to Venezuela--could join with the President in twittering US oil producers that they limit production to whatever this threesome may recommend as a controlled product output from the countries they rule--during, what might be, the formation of an apparent world-wide oil cartel