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[tyovan4]

This is only economically sustainable for a few weeks, maximum.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by norcider

11:36AM and our refuse is usually picked up by now. I sympathize with the workers wanting protection. I hope whatever the solution is, that it's resolved soon.

They just confirmed they'll be around to pick up our garbage and recycling tomorrow after the regular Thursday routes are done, so I'm guessing they'll be around here on the North Side in the afternoon and evening hours.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

This is only economically sustainable for a few weeks, maximum.

If there was 1/2 the media for the Swine Flu as there is for this, it wouldn’t be creating so much of a scare.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

This is only economically sustainable for a few weeks, maximum.

I think once the $2 trillion stimulus bill passes we'll be okay for 2-3 months. We'll need new bills of equal size to keep topping off though.

[Independentthinking83]

Originally Posted by eschaton

I think once the $2 trillion stimulus bill passes we'll be okay for 2-3 months. We'll need new bills of equal size to keep topping off though.

City of Pittsburgh to get 0 dollars from it. Just like I said earlier the Pittsburgh area is on its own. Only cities above 500,000 in population get money.

Back in Act 47? Or does Pa just let struggling municipalities go to bankruptcy? Bankruptcy may be a better option at this point. Erase the debt.

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...ficit-in-2020/

[szug-bot]

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/r...s/202003250139


how sad - his mother was visiting from another country, and perished here.

[ambers72]

Wow that IS very tragic

[Knepper3]

Originally Posted by Independentthinking83

City of Pittsburgh to get 0 dollars from it. Just like I said earlier the Pittsburgh area is on its own. Only cities above 500,000 in population get money.

Back in Act 47? Or does Pa just let struggling municipalities go to bankruptcy? Bankruptcy may be a better option at this point. Erase the debt.

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...ficit-in-2020/

False, Pittsburgh will get zero direct dollars. The state will allocate the funding so the amount Pittsburgh will get is to be determined.

[Independentthinking83]

Originally Posted by Knepper3

False, Pittsburgh will get zero direct dollars. The state will allocate the funding so the amount Pittsburgh will get is to be determined.

When you are ok with mediocrity, stagnation or decline you become irrelevant . This is a great wake up call to that. Most state and federal money will likely go to Philadelphia.

The article says Pittsburgh could receive money from the state. Those are pedutos statements and likely just a statement at this point. Keep hoping. Pittsburgh was a much larger city in the 1980s and the rest of the economy was good elsewhere. I don’t recall the governments getting cash to survive.

The only good thing is Pittsburgh and the surrounding area will be forced to change now. There won’t be a merger vote or federal demand for school districts to merge like one that created Woodland Hills.

By this happening it can push a lot of municipal governments and schools into defunct status, allowing the county or a neighbor hunt one more solvent to take over. The red tape needs cut. This pretty much blows through it.

I am excited to see the new Pittsburgh once this is over. It will be a struggle for a while but things will get figured out and we will move on.

[sealie]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

You are hazarding a guess with zero real data. I, at least, provided some information (albeit very weak information). I, and many of my colleagues, work on things like analyzing hospital capacity and assessing pandemic risk for a living. As I type, I am watching a webinar where my colleagues are demoing a new hospital capacity model which accounts for COVID. I have other colleagues and friends who literally model disease spread for the flu and now for COVID on a hyper-local level for the CDC and the Dept of Homeland Security.

The people in the know say we really don't know yet on a local level whether we are going to go over capacity or not in the Pittsburgh metro. In the US, it seems like NY is pretty certain to go over capacity, and I am sure there are others, but Pittsburgh is "not enough data to make an assessment" situation. I am not saying your prediction won't pan out, mind you, but your forecast is about as good as throwing a dart.

Do the models assume cases more or less staying in place or is there a certain amount of people-shuffling between, say, Pittsburgh and Cleveland? Or is that a trade secret? There are also apparently a number of rich people fleeing NYC to wait this out in the Hamptons or something, so I’m interested in what kind of impact migration has.