Kirstie Alley says pro-lockdown politicians should forego their salaries while Americans suffer from their policies



Actress Kirstie Alley opined that perhaps politicians pushing lockdown policies should forego their salaries while their constituents are suffering from the consequences of their decisions.

The vocal actress made the suggestion from her official social media account and it got thousands of positive interactions.

"My solution. All senators congressmen governors and city political officials from any state or city who impose shut downs to the extent that businesses and people have no form of income, take no salaries for the duration of the shutdown," tweeted Alley.

My solution. All senators congressmen governors and city political officials from any state or city who impose shut… https://t.co/SZoHneUtzX
— Kirstie Alley (@Kirstie Alley)1607089589.0

"Leadership leads by example & from the top," she added.

The missive received more than 12,500 retweets and more than 116,700 likes from social media users.

The outrage aimed at pro-pandemic politicians has peaked after several incidents of appalling hypocrisy from politicians ignoring social distancing guidelines while haranguing their constituents to follow the rules.

In one of the most egregious examples, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, was caught at a lavish dinner at an exclusive restaurant called French Laundry. Photographs showed that he eschewed wearing a mask and his dinner companions neglected to distance themselves. Newsom later apologized for setting a bad example.

A few days later at the same ritzy restaurant, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, also a Democrat, was caught celebrating the birthday of a local wealthy socialite. Breed confirmed it was her at the restaurant.

Alley has been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and has not shied away from using her social media account to express her political beliefs. On Tuesday she signaled that she supported the effort to question the results of the 2020 election.

I’m still holding the line by the way.... @realDonaldTrump .. I’m here till they drag me away
— Kirstie Alley (@Kirstie Alley)1606847626.0

"I'm still holding the line by the way.... @realDonaldTrump .. I'm here till they drag me away," she tweeted.

Here's Kirstie Alley talking about her support for Trump:

Kirstie Alley joins 'Hannity' after receiving backlash over Trump supportwww.youtube.com

'No national shutdown': Joe Biden says shutting down the virus will not require a national lockdown



Former Vice President Joe Biden said in a media briefing on Thursday that he would not support a national lockdown and that the coronavirus could be defeated without such an order.

Biden made the comments in the question and answer period after his remarks on the coronavirus pandemic from Wilmington, Delaware. He was responding to a reporter who asked him if he supported a national lockdown to combat the virus.

"I am not gonna shut down the economy, period," responded Biden. "I'm gonna shut down the virus. That's what I'm gonna shut down."

"So that's ruled out?" asked Kristen Welker of NBC News.

"I'll say it again: No national shutdown," he responded.

"No national shutdown. Because every region, every area, every community can be different," Biden explained. "So there's no circumstance that I can see that will require total national shutdown. I think that would be counterproductive."

Biden had previously said in August that he would listen to scientists and experts if they advised that a national lockdown was necessary to combat coronavirus.

He went on to say that there might be different restrictions based on local outbreaks of the virus, and gave examples of gyms opening up or his church where only 40% of the parishioner capacity were allowed in at one time.

"But there are constraints in which, the degree to which, businesses can be open," he explained. "Those are rational decisions. It's not shutting down everything, it's calibrating according to what the threat is."

One of Biden's coronavirus advisors had floated the idea of locking down for 4-6 weeks and having the government pay for the lost wages in order to get the virus under control ahead of a vaccine being developed.

"We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies, for city, states, county governments," said Dr. Michael Osterholm.

Later Dr. Atul Gawande, another member of Biden's COVID-19 task force, said that a national lockdown wasn't necessary and that a localized response would do enough to combat the virus.

Here's the video of Biden's comments:

Biden: I Will Not Shut Down the National Economywww.youtube.com