Posted on 04/03/2020 9:51:10 AM PDT by LilFarmer
Yesterday’s thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3831016/posts
I agree!
True.
He is not there _yet_.
The only way to get the economy up and running again is for everyone to wear masks when they go back to work.
And only if we have immediate testing to see who is coming back to work with the virus.
And then only if we have cell phone contact tracing to run down the people contacted by those who show up as positive for the virus.
Surveillance? I’m ok with it if it can help restart the economy.
Nope, he’s a golfer, __always.
I mostly talk in generalities so not really you, you, except the cavuto part (wink).
But yes I do understand. Anyone who’s been unemployed does. But who is unemployed? Not the lower class - they’re still constructing and landscaping and mini-marting and nursing home nursing and Walmarting and working for those delivery services and trucking companies, same as usual. Not the upper class of course. That leaves the middle class - about 1/3 of which who work for some form of govt and so have guaranteed salaries coming in. Another 1/4-1/3 can work from home - still drawing salaries. That leaves 1/3 of the middle class. Getting checks in order of income, lowest first. I don’t see any drastic emergency.
Yes, housing is stagnant - who wants buyers traipsing thru their open house right now? Consumer spending hasn’t let up if you ask the post office and UPS - and Amazon. Grocers might take a hit after people realize they have six months of beans still to eat. And I wouldn’t worry about housing prices - watch for some migration from former hot areas, but then you’ll have other buyers move into those areas thinking they have 100 years until the next pandemic. Florida will never lose its value - neither will California. Not with a return to the lowest unemployment in history. Economic uncertainty depends on how quickly our product/services buyers overseas bounces back. But once the virus is gone or we develop a weapon that neutralizes it, I.e., vaccine or prophylactic, it’s gone. And what else happens when it’s gone? The world will want made in America clean and fresh. Let the good times roll. In the meantime, like I said, skill-up, paint that bathroom, learn yukelele, but enjoy your paid staycation. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime to retool yourself so you can hit the ground running.
People around here going full China mode. Even probably applauding the China plane flying into Columbus today. Sick
Why are you so averse to wearing a mask?
Hi everbody.
Just back from sitting out in my sister’s yard drinking beer to calm my nerves.
Covid looks a lot different when you believe you’ve seen it up close. All the abstract goes away.
The old man that was taken away by the space suits this morning has a room on the 2nd floor, just above the lobby. I’m on the 1st floor about 100 rooms down the hallway.
I was in the lobby when the space men pulled up and came in for directions to the old man’s room.
Staff grim...everyone in masks and gloves.
Just plain spooky stuff.
The closer it gets, the scarier it is.
If you have been reading our threads _for weeks_ we have been blasting away at China for lying through their teeth about _everything_.
There are a couple of FluBros out there who try to pretend Chinese data is legit—and they are mocked around here.
Sorry, I missed that. Can you give me a link?
I hate to say it, but a poll of doctors (MDs) does not constitute a proper study.
There is a great need to conduct some actual clinical studies on chloroquine. There is apparently evidence to justify doing such studies but not actual demonstration of efficacy in a controlled manner.
Oh please.
The question I responded to, and spent some time on looked legitimate.
Then you had to spout off about hysteria, as if we are all upset about nothing but “old people dying”
First off, many of those “old people” fought for your right to a free country, so even if that was all the damage it would cause, that would be ENOUGH to try and slow this monster down. I’m not old but I RESPECT those who BUILT this country through their commitment and sacrifice. Unlike some of you I am not willing to throw them away like garbage because you worried about a thin paycheck.
And, as Black Agnes said, they is a lot of morbidity, 15-20% hospitalized nationwide, and the threat of collapse of healthcare and the collateral damage that would cause. Do you even know how many ICUs are in your county? What happens if your grandbaby has an appendicitis?
But hey, as long as your portfolio looks good.
And a lot of you call yourself “pro life” *spit* Pro life as long as it doesn’t touch your bottom line, I see.
Yes, those of us who have been tracking this virus have been called “hysterical” for 10 weeks now. It gets old. No one here is hysterical. It was and has always been about being PREPARED. And most folks on this thread are just that, prepared.
Thanks for checking in.
Sorry that this had to hit so close.
Were you out of the lobby when they brought the guy through the lobby?
Wear your mask/gloves, when you go into the common areas.
I don’t think it’s much overblown. I mean 53K dead in batches of 1,000 at a time or even 600 at a time, isn’t overblown. That’s blowing the doors off the hospital. Half the people ventilated won’t make it, isn’t overblown. That’s a huge challenge to morale. But I think it’s ridiculous to recommend masks at a time when medics are still rationing themselves because they don’t have enough. And, when everybody in infected areas have been told to park it on the couch so they’re not out in public anyway. It comes off as busy-work, or busy-words, nothing to say today so hey, let’s keep masks a topic for 6 days now as a distraction. Just like Cuomo keeps ventilators a topic as a distraction.
https://twitter.com/MarkkuPeltonen/status/1245938324843495424
Imtersting charts.
ICU use, ICU/million, others. For Nordic countries.
Post of the day.
It was in today’s live Trump Press conference
“Were you out of the lobby when they brought the guy through the lobby?”
I did not stick around to watch them haul out the infected person. And frankly, nobody knows for sure that his “flu like symptoms” are COVID.
But reason suggests it probably was. And the paramedics CERTAINLY, MOST CERTAINLY were properly bundled up and grim.
BIL gave me a spare N95 from an old construction job, still in the bag.
But I’m not going back to the lobby for awhile, and I don’t want my room to be serviced by any of the staff.
I’ll do it myself, thank you.
Actually the ‘go the to hospital’ number is pretty high in my state for that age group. Of the ~500 in the 40-60 age group, ~120 are in the hospital right now.
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