I work for a large international mega-corp and we are hiring but the legal department insists on a background check for all new employees or contractors. Well the government is shut down and no longer handling background checks. I found out today that we have one person who already accepted the offer and a second person who will soon get an offer but neither can actually start until the government opens back up.

We need to stop the insanity and open the economy back up. We shut down everything for the few people who will get very sick and die. We ignored any possible solution to minimize both death and economic damage. We need to start thinking about the rest of the people, millions and millions of people.