30 Million People Have Filed For Unemployment! Are You One Of Them?

3.8 million people filed for unemployment this week. That brings the number of Americans filing for unemployment since mid-March to 30 million.

It’s hard to believe we’re in this situation as a country. But what’s most scary is that it can get even worse before it gets better.

Numbers on paper or on a TV screen don’t mean much unless you’re one of those people out of work or until you now one of those people or families who can’t pay their bills, then you realize, this sh** is real!

Real people are suffering, real families are standing in food lines, and real businesses are closing, sometimes for good!

For millions of Americans, rents, car payments, and mortgage payments are due and many of not received unemployment and countless others haven’t even been able to successful applicants. I’ve reached out to my radio and social media follows who are business owners and almost none of them have received money from the Paycheck Protection Program or an SBA loan. It’s truly getting desperate for many people.

As I was going through my own stack of mail this morning, I could feel the anxiety kicking in. My deferred mortgage payment was in that stack along with my deferred car lease notice.

But unlike many Americans, I will be able to pay when these bills come due. However, the stress is still there. I can only imagine what individuals and families are experiencing. As a man who has been unemployed, I know that horrible feeling of not knowing when the bleeding is going to stop.

But none of us have experienced anything like this coronavirus or having a President that only adds to our anxiety with his lack of understanding of crisis management and his schizophrenic behavior. That only makes you feel more uncertain.

There’s enough to worry about without having a leader who only makes you feel more hopeless instead of more hopeful.

I know it looks bad. Trust me, I have my moments of thinking, “This crap is never going to end!” But the fighter and optimist in me always sees the glass as half full.

I have no doubt that we’ll get through this together and if we’re smart we’ll use this experience to improve our health, minimize our expenses and live minimally, and most importantly, vote like we never have before to make sure we have a President who put the people before politics during a pandemic!

Michael Baisden

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E.R. Doctor Commits Suicide. “She tried to do her job, and it killed her!”

Who’s the rock for the rock? That’s a question I asked on my radio show last week. Those who are strong for us also need help and no one needs it more than our health care workers.

Over the last 6 weeks, hospitals and healthcare workers have been overwhelmed with death. And although they are trained to deal with illness and losing patients, there’s nothing that could have prepared Dr. Lorna M. Breen for the devastation that would come with the coronavirus.

Dr. Breen was an emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated many coronavirus patients. She died by suicide on Sunday, her father and the police said.

She died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview. Tyler Hawn, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department, said in an email that officers on Sunday responded to a call seeking medical assistance.

“The victim was taken to U.V.A. Hospital for treatment, but later succumbed to self-inflicted injuries,” Mr. Hawn said. “She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” he said. Dr. Breen’s father said his daughter had contracted the coronavirus but had gone back to work after a little over a week. The hospital sent her home again, and that’s when her family got involved and decided to bring her to Charlottesville.

Dr. Breen, who was 49, did not have a history of mental illness, her father said. But he did say she appeared to be detached, in his words. “She was truly in the trenches of the front line,” he said.

He also wanted everyone to know she loved her job and was committed to helping people. “Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.” He said.

This story is a warning to all of us to make sure we care for those who care for all of us. Yes, they are doctors and nurses who deal with illness and death as an occupation, but they’re human. And to add to their trauma the coronavirus put healthcare workers in an even more difficult situation than usual.

Nurses and doctors are used to being able to comfort their patients in their time of need. The coronavirus made it impossible to have skin to skin contact or for the patient’s families to be present during their transition.

Families and health care professionals need closure too and not being able to touch and comfort so many dying people can cause unimaginable pain, guilt, and anxiety.

Even the strongest and most experienced doctors can slip into a deep depression and worse. Let’s make sure we look out for them the way they’ve looked out for us.

Michael Baisden