In calling for calm and restraint he is overwhelmed by panic and hysteria? Good Grief.
Well the author does put Great Depression in his title and opens with
Federal and state governments are making a massive gamble about a little-understood new virus. They may not only be betting our entire economy, but our nation’s future.
Sounds a bit hysterical to me.
“A Great Depression?” Hysterical.
The disease will scare consumers and investors enough. Demanding with deceptive language that consumers continue to travel to congregate in bars, resorts, restaurants and entertainment places will not get the desired results and would risk far more consumer and investor fear after many casualties occur. Demanding that the government shut up about the risks is wrong.
Preparations should be made to resume business activity in earnest, when the problem blows over. In the meantime, the author should get a job in a Walmart store in a major hub center to prove her honesty, just like the other employees, with elders in her family in her house, without gloves or any other protection and some ignorant or insane customers aggressively talking to her within a few inches of her face. Some of those employees each see tens of thousands of different customers in a month.
I’m sorry that some people are losing revenues for a couple of months. That doesn’t mean that they should say that the world is ending and give up. There will be many bright, young graduates and others willing to take their places in the hot weather ahead.
The disease is far worse than what Pullman dredged up with her chosen sources. It can quickly overwhelm ICUs in hospitals, and that would cause a panic that no amount of propaganda can stop.
On the contagiousness of the disease, Dr. Fauci said something to this effect. Wherever it appears that we are today, the situation is really more like what we’ll see two weeks from now.
In other words, there are quite a few times more cases out there than what we can see. Dr. Fauci is right about that, and that’s why people in the service sector are trying so hastily and desperately to shut everyone up about the problem now. They don’t want their potentially damaged and dead customers to see what generating those revenues today will do to them.
Try to slow the epidemic down, then go back to work. There will be plenty of debt. Debt is what too many people in business choose to run on now anyway. They should have known better and saved enough money to weather a couple of months of activity shutdown. It happens from time to time, and there’s nothing that we can do to completely avoid disasters from happening, including telling people to put their hands over their eyes and ears and scream.