Important article.
Thx for posting it.
I work professionally with finance and economics
Less than 20% of people are wage earners in this country to the degree that their productivity equals livelihood.
These are the backbone of the nation. This virus hoax is attacking them.
My stay at home wife, raising 2 kids and 2 dogs doesn’t understand that our nation can’t survive a lockdown. Meanwhile when I tell her that her 5000 per month allowance is going to 4500, she screams bloody murder.
Her allowance doesn’t cover mortgage, healthcare., car payments
She is part of America’s society that think money grows on trees, or the govt can print unlimited iou’s
There are a few dozen people here at least that would argue that we’re not doing enough staying at home. I don’t get them either.
I don’t even know how they ended up on Free Republic.
My 87 year-old mother is tougher than them. We need to get the country back to work. Protect the old and infirm. But nevertheless get everyone back to work regardless of the cost of lives.
Or the number that will be lost will dwarf those numbers.
We’ve got about 500,000 confirmed cases in this country (and God knows how many actual cases). Do we have any idea HOW those people CAUGHT the virus? If someone would report that, in addition to all the preexisting conditions that are particularly affected, we could factor that into the reopening scheme.
BUT NO. Everyone just wants to report on what they hear at Trump’s press conference and how “stupid” he is.
After eight weeks of conditioning, governors should end all restrictions on companies and individuals, and allow personal responsibility to guide our actions.
the wimps are destroying us with their petulance....
At this point it doesn’t matter. There is no magic wand that will restore the American economy to pre-CV levels before the election. If all the shutdowns were lifted tomorrow how many people will go back to their daily lives as if nothing has happened? Some will and some won’t. Maybe 40% continue to self-quarantine and the rest return to work. What business can survive with only 60% of their customer base while paying the same expenses as before (inventory, payroll, utilities)? Many businesses will go under anyway. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. You can lift the shutdowns but things will not go back to normal until the virus is sufficiently contained. At over 38,000 new cases just within the last 24 hours I’m not convinced we’re there yet.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
The virus will transmit faster among those who do venture out so after a temporary boost immediately following the end of the shutdown the economy will tank again as more people get sick and stay home anyway, to say nothing of those that end up in the hospital or the morgue. We will have the worst of both worlds, the high CV death toll AND the economic depression. Governors who lifted lockdowns prematurely will face an uphill re-election battle if their state enters the above scenario. Given the choice between 2 really bad outcomes I choose the one that will lead to fewer American deaths. We don’t have to wait until a vaccine is developed but we should wait until we have more tests and contact tracing programs in place so we can quarantine intelligently.
They want a Depression; it keeps people dependent on them, and it is their only hope of winning the election.
They care only about power.
Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.
Did you consuli Fauci before making that bold statement?
Some of us old farts who fall into their at risk category did not ask for nor do we want government protection. Open up the economy completely and leave us alone. We’ve survived as long as we have by living our lives and knowing what precautions to take to protect ourselves. We don’t need medical “experts” or politicians to tell us how to live.
Liberals screwed the economy based on a hysterical disease model and now demand we implement more expensive policies based on severely biased climate models.
L8r
More ignorant fear mongering.
The Great Depression was caused by a banking system collapse. There is nothing wrong with our banking system.
As soon as people and businesses are allowed to return to work the economy will recover. There is huge pent up demand.