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But a quarantine doesn't flatten it, it just delays the massive ramp-up which eventually overwhelms the hospitals. Social distancing flattens it by dribbling people into the health system slowly.
It would also give time to figure out a way to have treatment plans for patients.
Most presidents have never run a business. So that would make them even less qualified, according to your odd presidential value matrix. Realistically speaking though, Trump has no control over the fed's actions, nor the falling markets around the world. The fed is responding to the situation independently, and doing what they think is best. Trump may be at the helm, but you can't blame the captain of a ship for stormy waters.
The government is not a business. And heck, Trump didn't even know health care was so complicated! What kind of business owner doesn't understand that?
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Are people slaves to someone? Why can’t they sell their own properties as they see fit??? Who are they hurting?
No one has unlimited authority to conduct business as they see fit.
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It's a Catch-22. It's not fair to evict someone because they're laid off because of the virus, but it's also not fair to expect the landlord that may depend on the rental income to bear the burden either.
I'm hoping that the bill Congress is supposed to pass addresses these kinds of situations. If the renter was working they should get some kind of unemployment and should be able to at least pay some of their rent.
That's actually extremely fast, and if they do get a vaccine available early next year, that will be the fastest ever creating a new vaccine from start to finish. Most new vaccines take 5 to 10 years or longer, from beginning to end.
The big unknown is if any of these 10+ coronavirus vaccine candidates will even work, they never did get a vaccine to work for SARS or MERS, also coronaviruses, after trying for like 5 years, most researchers just gave up. This will be the first coronavirus vaccine for humans if they succeed, let's hope they do!
So my local WalMart here in South Florida was pretty much stripped of all meats and fluids except booze. They just got a pallet of TP in, but I didn't need any so passed.
This doesn't make sense. The amount that people are willing to pay IS their current value, by definition. It's actually the stores who are charging 1/10 - 1/20th their value right now. That's why the products disappear from the shelf as soon as they're stocked. If stores raised prices to meet demand, we wouldn't have this situation right now where nobody can find anything.
So you want stores to raise prices for masks, ventilators and other things that even hospitals are rationing to undercut people that are stockpiling. What exactly does that accomplish.
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