“Ridiculous.”

So correctly pronounced President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment of all those stay-at-home office workers driven from their daily routine — and the routine of any ordinary office — by the COVID pandemic.
The Washington Times reports:
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed to fire federal employees who don’t come back into the office, threatening to file a lawsuit challenging a Biden administration labor contract that cemented remote work benefits for thousands of government workers.“If people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed,” Mr. Trump said at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.“And somebody in the Biden administration even gave a five-year waiver of that so that for five years, people don’t have to come back into the office,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. So it’s like a gift to the union.”
Well. Bingo.
The it-would-seem-obvious reality is that functioning society’s everyday American functions are produced by people getting up in the morning, getting cleaned up, dressed, eating breakfast — and then going to an office to work on producing whatever it is they produce.
Take a look around. Have clothes on? Without question the clothes you are wearing were produced by American workers showing up to an office of some type — perhaps a factory in this instance — to produce those clothes.
Have scrambled eggs for breakfast? A farm is an office for Americans who raise food. Chances are even the chickens are hard at work laying those eggs in the office provided by the farmer — a chicken coop.
Drive a car? Cars are not made in someone’s backyard, they are made in factories — factories that are the offices of the automakers.
Does this mean that there are not any Americans who can in fact produce product X by sitting at home tapping away on their laptop computer? Of course not.
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