It’s easy to tell everyone to stay home when one has a
guaranteed paycheck coming in because they are working for a company has either
been dictated essential or a company will receive a bailout from the government
and can pay for their employees to stay at home. Remember, essential workers are people like the McDonald’s Drive Thru Order
Taker, Nurses, The cart person at Costco, Police Officers, A cashier at Academy
Sports & Outdoor, Firefighters, A receptionist at a law firm, Fry Cook at
KFC, an Ice Cream Scooper at Braum’s, US Military, Liquor Stores and many more. These are entities that the government and
apparently many of us have no problem with not abiding by the 6 foot rule in
social distancing. These employees must
have been declared by the CDC and WHO as a non-threat to our elderly and those
with underlying health conditions as policies have made exceptions to allow
those employees to continue to provide for their families. (Disclaimer: For those who do not understand
sarcasm, all businesses are essential to the success of our economy!)
However, non-essential employees like Hairdressers, Many
Dine-In Restaurants, Churches and Retail Sales have been asked to stay at home
so we can eradicate a virus that will continue to reappear each year. (Yes, we
have set the precedent for these restrictions to take place again.)
In the last two weeks nearly 10 million new claims for
unemployment have been filed according to a New York Times article quoting the
US Labor Department. The speed and scale
of the job losses is without precedent. (The only thing faster would have been
if we actually would have seen 2.2 million deaths (6,027 a day) like the famous
Epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson boldly predicted (later changing the claims as
drastically lower because over 85% who get the virus show no or very mild
symptoms) and our Government that passed a 2.2 Trillion Dollar Pork Filled
So-Called Stimulus Package that we are leaving our children to pay back.) We are well on our way to etch our fate into
history as we skip right over another major recession and right into The 2nd Great Depression. All it will take is for our labor force to
get to the 60 million jobless mark. According
to St. Louis Fed projections, the coronavirus economic freeze better could cost
47 million jobs and send the unemployment rate past 32%.
There is a silver lining though!
Everyone who is tired of hearing about the
Coronavirus and Social Distancing will start hearing about higher crime rate both violent and non-violent, increased divorce rate,
child abuse, more government regulation and quick fixes, socialist programs, mental
health, suicides and drug addiction.
It only took World War 2 to pull us out of the last Great Depression
where 418,500 American military and civilians paid the price with their lives. We have several foreign countries like North
Korea, Iran, China and more who love the political discourse in our country and
will gladly be ready to take us on in a war.
In fact, yesterday a U.S. official said intelligence threads about a
potential attack by Iran or Iran-backed forces had been building for some time.
The official did not disclose intelligence on the timing or precise locations
of any attack.
The great thing about many businesses and entities as no
matter how insane regulations and obstacles our government has put in front of
them, they have found a way to overcome and provide a living for their family
and the families they employee.
In a recent Forbes blog, Tom Coliccho, founder of Crafted
Hospitality and host of Bravo’s Top Chef expects that 70% of restaurants will
close and not be able to reopen unless they receive another $440 Billion
Dollars. (That’s only another $13,000 on
top of the $30,000 that every family will have to pay back in taxes. It’s just debt.) Restaurants already have a slim margin for
profit, but provide many jobs for single parents, independent college students,
career service providers and part-time employees. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez better known as
AOC who is the Socialist Democratic US Representative for New York’s 14th
congressional district was a bartender just before she was elected by New
Yorkers and now serves on committees making decisions for the rest of the
country. These restaurant owners are
trying everything possible from utilizing social media to encourage viewers to
buy recipes and uncooked products just to keep their business open.
Churches have utilize video messaging and social media
platforms to conduct their weekly sermons.
However, our religious house of worship need additional revenue from
their parishioners to continue to provide outreach programs for abused women
and children, unemployed households trying to provide food for their families,
homelessness and other charitable opportunities. In addition to the lead preacher, churches
have a staff of maintenance crew, secretaries, accountants and other essential
employees that are needed to keep the doors open.
Those employees who are in sales have adapted to get their
message out to the masses as well. They
still have products to sell which is inventory the businesses must move to
continue to pay rent on buildings, salaries for staff support, other vendors
who provide necessary services and monthly operational expenditures. Sales people are utilizing social media
through image and video messaging to continue to comply with the social
distancing guidelines.
The Greek philosopher, Plato once stated, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” A need or problem encourages creative efforts
to meet the need of solve the problem.
Yes, we have a virus that can kill people. However, the government regulations that have
been put in place will also ultimately lead to others untimely death or at the
least destroy everything they have worked for and the opportunities they are
providing for others to achieve life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness.
Nobody would think any different if the shutdown only meant
2 weeks of everyone staying at home.
However, this economic halt will have much more consequences than 2
weeks of helping your kids with online classes.
To recover or even avoid being completely shut down,
businesses must embrace a technological transformation in automation as well as
trying to provide their message to the masses gaining a reach to solicit, sell
and service their products. In today’s
world, businesses now more than ever must have a digital strategy. Today it is the Coronavirus, tomorrow it will
be something else. Our customers are
spending more hours of the day online shopping, researching or mindless
browsing. Now more than ever, all eyes
are on social media. As a matter of
fact, 66% of social media users believe their social media usage habit will
increase in the event they are confined to their home due to the
Coronavirus. Over 60% of both YouTube
and Facebook users expect an increase while only 2% expect a decrease.
DeliveryMaxx
has been the leader in this arena over the last decade and continues to help
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across the country such as Automotive Dealerships, Real-Estate Brokers &
Agents, Churches, Service Industry, Sports Teams, Non-Profit Organizations and
more; we utilize our Patent-Pending Program to develop a digital strategy that
will meet the needs of sales, service and messaging to the masses. DeliveryMaxx is one of the only digital media
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DeliveryMaxx is not saying this virus is not serious and our
company adheres to the CDC guidelines doing our part to keep people safe. However, we are concerned with the future of
our country and feel that current government regulations is not the answer to
handling this crisis. We want everyone
to stay safe as well as every business to be able to continue to contribute to
what has made our country so great. We
will do everything in our power to help out any business or entity to continue
to bring in revenue because we know you are providing opportunities for all of
your employees.
