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The economy just ran off the rails. It won't start up again soon. Many small businesses and some large businesses will not survive, and social distancing will have to go on for at least a year. No restaurants. No movie theaters. No sporting events. No concerts.
Japan has closed all US automotive factories, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. No more cubicle workers. No more sweat shops. No more supermarket checkers. If you can't do business on the phone or by internet, it won't get done. Manufacturing will switch wholesale to robots just to survive. Millions of jobs will never come back.
People need to realize that "normal" is toast. It will never come back. The government has already shot its wad on stimulus and bailouts. They have no tools left. It's going to take a while for the Titanic to go down, but it's on its way.
We haven't even gotten to the homeless camps with thousands of untended corpses yet.
Most people will live through this, but it won't be easy. This year will go into the history books as the year everything changed.
Also the year that Trump gets re-elected! Socialism/communism will only make matters WORSE!! Even for Democrats!!
As long as dumbasses continue to go to the beach, etc., and ignore warnings, this virus will spread. Sadly, most of the beach-goers are probably anti-Trump!
I spent the first half of my life in south Florida the second half in th PNW. No one got sick going to the beach but I darn sure got sick in the cold damp weather stuck in an enclosed truck with three other emloyees.
This cannot go on forever. I'm thinking that in 15 to 30 days, this shutting down of the economy has to stop. As soon as they build makeshift hospitals, manufacture ventilators and other hospital supplies, and have tests for everyone, they need to open everything up again. People who are at risk will need to self-quarantine. Until they have a vaccine in 18 to 24 months, this virus is not going away. What do you think?
Only people that are high risk should be isolated. The rest of us should be able to go about business as normal. If virus is like the common cold, they may never develop a cure for it, it could mutate just a little bit each season. In which case the best you can do is get your yearly flu and corona virus shot to lessen the effects of the virus every flu season.
Only people that are high risk should be isolated. The rest of us should be able to go about business as normal.
That would work if it were just about keeping the old people from dying, but the problem is we’re trying to not overload the medical system. There are not nearly enough ventilators to go around and many young healthy people are going to need more medical care than average.
Only people that are high risk should be isolated. The rest of us should be able to go about business as normal. If virus is like the common cold, they may never develop a cure for it, it could mutate just a little bit each season. In which case the best you can do is get your yearly flu and corona virus shot to lessen the effects of the virus every flu season.
The common cold is actually many many strains of viruses. It's more like common colds, plural. Including some coronaviruses. That's why it's so hard to gain immunity. Not the same thing.
Only people that are high risk should be isolated. The rest of us should be able to go about business as normal. If virus is like the common cold, they may never develop a cure for it, it could mutate just a little bit each season. In which case the best you can do is get your yearly flu and corona virus shot to lessen the effects of the virus every flu season.
I guess you have not been keeping up to date, a good percentage of young, not at risk people have been sent to ICU because of this.
Right now it is not even about containment, but about not overwhelming the medical system, and having ICU patients sitting in a hallway waiting for their turn, dying while at it.
This cannot go on forever. I'm thinking that in 15 to 30 days, this shutting down of the economy has to stop. As soon as they build makeshift hospitals, manufacture ventilators and other hospital supplies, and have tests for everyone, they need to open everything up again. People who are at risk will need to self-quarantine. Until they have a vaccine in 18 to 24 months, this virus is not going away. What do you think?
I'd say it's insane. I have great concerns about every tin horn dictator hidden in a governor's or other bureaucrat's robes who enjoys ordering the peasants about.
Destroying our nation's economy, countless businesses and people at the bottom who did nothing to deserve being put out of work, is insanity. We live in insane times.
Newsome's stay home order is just another step. Dictatorship is not far away. These clowns need to back off, this panic/emergency is at the very bottom of the pile regarding dangerous diseases that have/could ravage our population.
Media have fueled this hysteria, people are going nuts, people who get a taste of power don't typically like to give it up.
I think the drama queens need to stop binge watching Pandemic movies, the virus has been spreading for 4 or 5 months and the death toll is still only 10,030 in a world population of 7.5+ billion. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I say give it 2 weeks and open bars, restaurants, theaters, etc. 4 weeks restart sports events.
Life needs to move on.
Right on. Projections are that it will only kill 500,000 to 1 million Americans this year. That's only about 2% of the population. Go ahead with life as usual. We need volunteers to buff the numbers.
I spent the first half of my life in south Florida the second half in th PNW. No one got sick going to the beach but I darn sure got sick in the cold damp weather stuck in an enclosed truck with three other emloyees.
You must have gotten out before red tide became common. When we lived a block from the Gulf, there were a couple of weeks a year, breathing got rather unpleasant because of that.
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