Amen, thank you for this. You get it. I'm not picking on Methodology's post as he may just be talking about we can't have crowds at games until a vaccine. I disagree with this but there are people on this board and all over tv media, print media, and social media saying we can't return to life until there's a vaccine and they are shutting down debate by calling people selfish for saying we can't continue on much longer like this.
It's wrecking the restaurant and bar industry. My friends who who own bars/restaurants are getting no help from PPP and insurance.
There are going to be a lot fewer smaller locally owned places and that's a shame, maybe not if you are in an area where the big chains are the dominant option, but here in the Northeast the smaller local place is our bread and butter.
Do you understand these estimations would have, in fact, happened had quarantine orders not been put in place?
The fed gov't is using Covid to fund big business to buy out small business. I called it from day one. They just passed another round of stimulus to fund big business to gobble up small business all under the guise of saving mom and pops. It's disgusting what they're doing. This is an unpecedented transfer of wealth.
Watch how many small oil companies go out of business this week/ next week as banks start making calls on the futures they bought and just got buried
define "opening back up"
The bailout is staggering. The key is to eliminate pork from being worked into the bill.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford etc. all got our money just like big business is getting our money instead of small business. Everyone knows Yale and Ruth's Chris are very different types of entities and the funding comes from different provisions in the bill and is paid out of diffent departments of the fed gov't. That's irrelevant...What's relevant is Congress has picked winners and losers with our money and they chose institutions who have more money than most countries and publicly traded companies with hundreds of locations over mom and pops.
March death totals barely incorporate social distancing. Since death totals are a lagging indicator and significant social distancing measures weren't broadly implemented in the US until the last week of March (if at all), March death totals largely reflect no social distancing measures.
Lifting lockdowns somewhat soon. We were told the lockdown was to help our health system to hold up, it's going to hold up from what I've heard. Once cases are dropping from their leveling off we have to open businesses back up and open up the economy.
6 feet. Flag football with flags attached to 6 foot long rods.
That doesn’t include mass gatherings though, does it?
Mmm, don't want to talk politics and push this thread to the Cesspool so this will be last reply. If you want to talk about it more start a Cesspool thread and tag me. I'll weigh in.
They depend on this kind of naivety. Repubs and Dems are all in on it. They think we're naive/stupid enough to think it's some sort of mistake and they want us to believe they're just dumb and well meaning. They just passed another round of stimulus for big business under the guise of saving small business so your well intended thing doesn't hold up at all. You're a smart guy, I know you really know what's going on.
No, not right away. I'm not convinced we have a vaccine any time soon. There's no way I think we can wait around 12-18 months, 3 years or whatever it takes before we have mass gatherings again. Coronaviruses have been around for like 60 years and we've never had a vaccine. With all the money and science behind it we'll have better treatments soon and probably a partial vaccine at some point.
