BestBuy workers are correct!
Once our electronics inventory sells through there will be a LOT of job losses that have nothing to do with any closures or quarantines in CONUS.
Totally baked into the cake now.
If you want a computer or laptop this year you’d better get that now!
I suspect getting the automanufacturing plants to retool to make ventilators has a lot to do with keeping those lines running doing SOMETHING. Because at this point they’re either out of widgets from China to install in the new cars, or close to being so.
And my dishwasher quit. First thing we do when we get money is get another one. I just hope there are dishwashers still for sale then :/
China is opening up. Wuhan in one week. Items will be ramped up. What our country will most likely do is bring manufacturing back to the US because now we have seen what outsourcing has done.
Some sectors will suffer, but it will come back. The longer we close, the harder a recovery will be.
High risk people need to self isolate for a few more months.
A young 20- 50 something can return to work if they want to.
I may have to wash clothes the way our ancestors did without electricity. No personal washer/dryer. And I have no rolling pins.