I did a skype call with my very good friend Andrew, in York, UK. I’ve known him since we were working in Microsoft Education together many years ago.
Anyway, you are right, and it is a pity.
He told me the UK is giving everyone 2000 pounds a month.
Never mind where the money is coming from. I reminded him that the UK has a serious debt owed the EU over Brexit. They do not have money to spare. The Germans just about bankrupted their country over WWII and now it’s going to happen again, but this time there’s no colonies to sell off or rely on.
Made him think!
Another thing he was led to believe is all the “Trump” states, like my Alabama, are opening and it’s going to kill a lot more. Hell, even some of my Left Coast and Yankee relative think that. It’s hardly the truth. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is still keeping restaurants, bars, hair salons, etc. closed, and even Georgia’s Kemp, while he opened the hair salons, did so with many, many conditions.
Anyway, the economy is already in the crapper.
Look at any flight radar real time map. My favorite is https://planefinder.net/
Check out how depleted of aircraft the skies are!
I’m a bit of a geek, so I’ve always kept watch on flight radar. I live about 100 miles Southeast of Atlanta’s Hartsfield airport, which is the world’s busiest airport, and my skies have planes just about always overhead.
Not anymore.
As off right this moment, there are NO planes over Northern Georgia on approach to Atlanta. I have NEVER seen that beofre.
Can't we advertise Puerto Rico and see if there are any buyers? It's a fixer-upper, but just promise the natives free stuff and they will faithfully vote for you.
After Bama and Texas lift their lockdowns and have fewer deaths what will the excuse for Oregon/CA and NY be?
When I graduated from High School, the Vietnam war was ending, by '75 or so, the most common refrain heard on the JOBs front - Last man leaving Seattle please turn off the lights.
In the 80's, the same happened in the Oil patch when I lived in Houston.
we have had regional economic letdowns every so often. This is reasonably normal in a capitalist economy.
The cumming depression and stock market crash may be / will be as bad as the 29/34 era.
Will people be moving from the East/West coasts to the South? We here in the South still have our share of commie holdouts, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans San Antonio, Dallas are all run by some malignant version of a commie regime