Uhm well, I defended you but, those charts show the reality of everyone’s response to CCP-19.
My response and many others I know started in late February.
That response even showed up in my business with customers putting their signed contracts on hold
It took a hard turn in the 2nd week of February to the point the Chinese New Year Parade, which I was going to attend with a co-worker, just didn’t seem like a good idea given the information we had at the time.
And I luv me some dragons and fireworks.
So, your charts don’t show an economy going off the cliff for any other metric than personal responses to the Kung Flu and then a hard lock down beginning in Mid March by many states.
LOL Well your defense of me got better in post 21 than your defense of me in 20. I do appreciate the defense, we’ve not always been in agreement on this.
I was being serious not sarcastic.
It’s really hard or impossible to say how much worse the economy is due to government shut down vs the consumer response that was already in progress. But it’s clear the economy was shutting down on it’s own.
Just like it’s going to be hard if not impossible to say if the shut downs ultimately made for a better economic recover on the other side of the shut down than would have occurred naturally.
There was a study of city responses in 1918 that appeared to show that cities that shut down and took early responses fared better overall than those that didn’t. But there are an awful lot of variables.
“given the information we had at the time.”
You mean the fearmongering propaganda you had at the time.
It wasn’t the virus, it was the response to the virus.