I am an operating engineer working with critical infrastructure.
Definitely, you deserve to proud of your hard work that got you where you are at in your career and many on this forum can share your distress.
However, as HB pointed out, this crisis has affected more than the underachievers, deadbeats, and welfare abusers you allude to. There have been many in Hawaii working more than one job that are no longer employed and need every dollar of assistance they can get. Keep in in mind, those people who have been laid-off no longer have reliable health insurance as well. Moreover, those who have made a hard living in Hawaii working under the table for cash will be the hardest hit, since they do not have the option of collecting unemployment insurance, qualify for federal financial relief, nor health insurance, but still have to find a way to get food for their family and pay their rent.
Other than wishing them our prayers, how will all those affected people survive this crisis?
Those of us who are lucky enough to still be employed for the time being, should try to be as sympathetic to those less fortunate. Any discourse that causes divisions between the haves and the have nots should be avoided at all costs. We are only starting to feel the economic ramifications due to Covid-19 and it will get only worse. The last thing we need is riots among the economically less fortunate because there will be more of them and guess who will they look to for things they need to survive.