I have a theory.  When I see what businesses the rightwing want to open, I kinda get suspicious.

Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor, will allow gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys, tattoo and massage parlors to reopen on Friday, followed by movie houses and restaurants next week.

It looks to me like they really don’t want to go back to work – they want you to go back to work.

And along comes Fox News with the outrage of the day.

Ainsley Earhardt, a blonde co-host (aren’t they all?) tells the real tragedy of the ban on immigration.

“Many families here, including mine — we have au pairs, and we rely on them,” she said. “I go to work at three o’clock in the morning, so I need her there. And I need her in my house so that she can help me with my daughter.”

“Many families rely on child care from other countries,” Earhardt continued. “These au pairs come here on work visas. They have to go back to their country to get the visas renewed, and we’ve been talking in my house about how that’s going to happen.”

Damn, I didn’t even think about the horror of that.  I mean, think of the single mothers teaching school, how do they function without an au pair?  Thousands of waitresses are waiting for their summer au pair across this country.

The Fox News host, who appears to be riding out the pandemic by the beaches of the Hamptons, presumably with her au pair, lamented in late March that women forced to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 “can’t get their nails done.”

“Women — all my friends are saying — you know, this is not a priority. People are dying, and I realize that,” she said at the time. “But they can’t get their nails done.”

I appreciate that she said it was not a priority, but just one item in a long list of inconvenient atrocities rich white women must endure.

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.