New?
Yep...let’s use 100 year old data to prove our point.
Productivity has fallen through the floor.
I get a fraction done in this "everyone WFH" scenario than I would otherwise.
At work I can get up, leave my office and go tap someone on the shoulder if need be to get something done.
Ping them all I want via Skype, they just mark themselves as "busy" or "do not disturb" and I spent exponentially more time finding someone who's "free" to get work done.
This model long-term isn't going to work. It's insanity.
Just when you think the level of stupid is topped out, it raises the bar!!
This doesn’t make any sense. Did they consider the small business owner who loses his or her business on an extended shutdown?
Throwing millions out of work and bringing the economy to a standstill won’t hurt a thing. Really. Take our word for it - we’re experts!
Sounds like something ghostwritten by the ChiComs.
Color me a tad skeptical . . .
Huh, That’s basically what I’ve been postulating.
That intervening will help the economy more than just letting the virus spread and people panicing on their own as people around them get sick.
Is this a joke? Seriously?
And we know economic conditions today are just as they were in 1918, foolish man.
And the earth is flat, too.
And Biden was the top his law class.
And Dorkbama can speak without a telepromptor.
this isn’t 1919 dumbasses
Idiots. The world and the U.S. were completely different then.
Ok then let just not go back to work at all.
HOW about the shameless lying for partisan political reasons END NOW.
You cannot shut down whole industries and idle millions of people for a month and not massively impact the economy.
This article is so stupid it hurts.
Basically what they did is they ignored all the locks downs, all the close businesses and made up imaginary doomsday number of possible “victims”
Here the current number of critical cases today in the US as a whole today: 2463.
So all this fantasy make believe about “the economic damage of opening too early” is made up data to validate a pre determined partisan political dogma
These are the same sort of “theoretical analysis” who told us the death toll in the US would reach 93,000,000.
It time for the partisan lying and politicizing to stop. It time for real analysis of real data not make believe theorizing by people pushing an agenda
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
They are looking for anything they can find to keep the lockdowns going.... even data from 100 years ago.
Laughable
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read. Maybe ever.
apples and oranges
What did the American economy of 1918 look like - what were its biggest features, its largest branches of employment, largest industries, how were they disbursed and how concentrated, and what were the demographics of all that - compared to all that in 2020.
Two very different economies with very different aspects that represented the economic engines of the day. They also were two different economies with the US demographics very different as well.
In 1920 about 30% of the population lived on farms, versus about 1% today. In 1920 about 50% of the population lived in cities; today its about 80%. Here’s a comparison of the economic distribution of industries 1915 and 2015:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-by-industry-1910-and-2015.htm
There are tons of demographic and economic attributes that make the U.S. economies of 1918 and 2020 different enough as to render useless a study that compares the impact of a pandemic on them.
Bullshit
CNN headline the other day stated that Going Back To Work Would Cause Great Depression.
So stupid that I needed an aspirin...