A lot more people caught the flu, so far, than have had CCP-19. We just want to keep it that way, for reasons that have been thoroughly discussed.
If the HCS crashes, the economy crashes. If the economy crashes, the HCS crashes.
This halfway shutdown is painful for everybody, but it has the best chance of saving both the HCS and the economy. We quite literally are on a war footing, and major battles are on our home soil for the first time in most of our lifetimes.
BTW, the Brits, among others, are screaming at the Chinese for their lies about how bad this virus is. We all knew they lied, now it’s coming out into the public forum.
The shutdown is not at all painful for me. I’m loving it. But in the same way a mortician may be loving the extra business and now he can buy that big boat.
I am now wroking from home and save a three hour commute and the gas. I’m getting a ton of stuff done I’ve been forced to put of for a while. My wife feeds me like a king and we love all the time we have together. We have no reason to leave our little shangri la here except to do a grocery run once a month.
In fact, I was thinking of retiring, and still might, but with all the commute time being saved, it’s a low priority.
My concern is that we are looking at a serious great depression, and the virus has still not killed all that many people, coupled with the results we are seeing from multiple treatments. Sure, NY is having a hard time of it. So’s Italy. But I live in Kentucky. 8 deaths.
8.