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His brother is an anchor on CNN, they were on TV yesterday it is an ALL TIME CLASSIC television bit I have never seen anything like it, too bad the video feed had issues
No. It's a pothole in the economy. Things just need to be spun up again (lots of money pumped in.)
I'm dealing with things as they sit now. In a country were everyone has cars and the government is highly decentralized, keeping people from traveling, especially when they're in panic mode, it essentially going to be impossible.
And, yes, the economy could be kept going through the die off, especially if the die off is mostly effecting retirees. Most of the workers will get sick and recover. Whatever else is going on, people need to feed themselves and pay their bills.
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The old NYC at this point is going to returned. It’s the end of the previous economy. The US should have already closed domestic flights and shutdown long distance buses and trains to keep the rest of the country safe from what’s going on in NYC.
As millions of people die, there’s just no way to keep the economy going.
The problem with looking at new infections is that it requires people to be tested, and having enough testing capacity. The number can have a huge false upwards rate. Being blunt, it's much easier and more accurate to count the bodies. But, yes, it's a trailing indicator.
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The daily death number is not what to look at. It represents what happened weeks ago. Anyone dying yesterday was likely infected more than 3 weeks ago.Maybe 4 weeks ago. The incubation period is one to two weeks and the average hospitalization(dying period) after onset of severe problems is 11 to 15 days.
The rate of new infections is the number to watch. If that number starts slowing down, leveling or decreasing then the trajectory is bending. If the number doubles every week or every few days it is a very bad sign.
To use a poker analogy, he's playing a bad hand as well as he can, using a fair amount of bluff to do so.
When you're in the position that he's in, and faced with a situation as intractable as this one is, saying, "Yeah, we're screwed" is not really an option. So he's latching on to what possible solutions the medical people give him, not matter how unlikely they are to work, and how negative the consequences, and running with them. This at least gives him the appearance of doing something about the situation, even if it's ineffective. And the people who are causing him problems (Trump, Bla, an uncooperative citizenry, etc.) just give him cover when it all comes crashing down.
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I still don’t get what exactly Cuomo is doing that is so great other than going on TV everyday reading off numbers and finger pointing at Trump.
Has there been any hint/rumor about when non-essential businesses will be allowed to open again?
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