Posted on 03/30/2020 8:08:30 AM PDT by DouglasKC
I hope that works for them. From the picture in the article, it looks like they are all wearing masks. Not an option here, as there is currently a shortage.
And from the article it seems like they are still expecting their hospitals to be overwhelmed. So they are making a conscious choice in favor of the economy over their people.
But the "everyone wears a mask" strategy is a viable option. I think it would work for us, once mask manufacturing has caught up.
So far. But right now, the virus has been detected in two-thirds of the counties in the US, and the ones where it hasn't been detected tend to be more rural, poorer, and have an older population, none of which bode well for their ability to cope when it does hit. And it WILL hit.
There were complains about economy under Obama, but it wasn’t the sky is falling type complaints that you hear now.
You are a total hypocrite - after all the virus panic pushing you did.
It literally took me one minute to find out what Sweden is doing to combat corona virus:
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Sweden
"On agency recommendation: the government has limited freedom of assembly, temporarily banning gatherings of over 50 individuals and physically closed secondary schools and universities. The Public Health Agency and government issued recommendations to work from home, if possible; for people about 70 to stay at home; and issued general recommendations to avoid unnecessary travel within the country and to keep a social distance between people. Those with even minimal symptoms which could be COVID-19 are recommended to stay home. The 'karensdag' or initial day without paid sick-leave has been removed by the government and the length of time one can stay home without a doctor's note has been raised from 7 to 14 days.
They sound like they're doing almost exactly what the United States is doing to a large degree.
When we see +20% unemployment you'll understand what real pain really is. Trump has already alluded to it when he said that the cure is worse that the disease. He was 100% right but unfortunately the left got exactly what it wanted...the US economy on lockdown.
I never pushed panic. I looked at what happened in other countries and said if action wasn't taken then what happened there would happen here. Doesn't take a genius to recognize that viruses don't care what people believe. President Trump agrees with me on the virus and the economy. He vehemently disagrees with you.
This disaster is just getting started.
Yep. Retail was already under pressure from Amazon, etc. Home prices are at all time highs. When the economic fall out from the Wu Flu Panic hits it’s going to be ugly.
Prices will fall on non-essential items until their supply chains are rationalized. After that, prices will return to normal after most of the production capacity is shut down.
You're right about that. But I think the rural places will not be so hard hit because of not being so crowded and for the most part they are complying with President Trump's directives.
And a lot of Seattle restaurants closed their doors forever a month ago when that nursing home got hit.”
Actually a lot of those restaurants were planning to close anyway due to the minimum wage and the homeless vagrants ruining Seattle’s ambient night time traffic. Tom Douglas had already announced his plan to close all his Seattle restaurants which numbered four to six, can’t recall. The Seattle restaurants just jumped on the band wagon saying they were closing due to Covid-19.
agree
So you and your daughter and her husband are cheering on the disruption to the economy because you'll benefit from your competitors being driven out of business? I guess those competitors somehow deserve to get wiped out by open-ended government edicts, since none of them are "smart businesses".
My pessimism about the American citizenry has nothing to do with what I see in the mainstream media ... and has everything to do with what Ive seen right here on this website.
The economic devastation this has caused will be evident fairly quickly, especially small and medium sized businesses, and unemployment (which I believe will hit 20% in April). Leisure and hospitality and retail ex supermarkets/big box will take years and years to recover (22 million jobs just there). I think we’ll have another big leg down in the stock market soon.
No, it will not.
Because we’ve never gone from ~3.5% unemployment to ~20% in a matter of weeks! Do you not understand the magnitude of that? Is that completely lost on you? The unemployment rate during the Great Depression averaged ~20% and that was the worst economic event in the country’s history.
I bet you are 100% right
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