Don't go back to work and more people die. Why is so hard for you to understand this? Maybe because you're sitting at home safe and sound with food and no fear of losing your home/apt? Could that be it?
22 fucking million people are out of work, many of those permanently. When this is over, those jobs will be GONE, their employers OUT OF BUSINESS. The displacement and poverty that will follow will be enormous and will destroy millions of lives. Every day we wait just makes that worse.
Oh and the government doesn't have the right to indefinitely sequester its citizens, or did we rip up the constitution and become North Korea?
Geez, you just keep taking the extreme position to argue a weak point. Nobody said that SIP wasn't a good idea. FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. That period is over, regardless of the virus. We need to get back to work, now, or we will damage our country possibly irreparably.
Oh, in other news, oil has settled around $10 a barrel, the New York State unemployment system has collapsed, and the tsunami of retail bankruptcies has begun. If you're gonna keep sheltering in place, I'd suggest pulling the covers up over your head.
Maybe try rationally looking at the study posted in the attached articles before going full emotional OMG THE SKY IS FALLING AND THE GOVERNEMNT IS KILLING THE ECONOMY!
Take a look at these articles. Of course a pandemic is going to fuck with the economy pretty badly for a while. But it is the disease doing it, not the protective measures. If we (let's say California) the world's 5th largest economy, can come out of this as successfully as we have been, with as low death rates as we've been seeing, we will be poised to flourish, especially compared to those world economies that were hard hit by the virus. If we open up too soon, and lose that edge, I believe that will hurt the economy even more.
What do you have to say about the articles?
As much as you've been criticizing various politicians and people for the way this SIP stuff is being handled, and as much as you call those with over inflated death predictions "Sky is falling chicken littles", you seem to be doing the same chicken little thing with the goverment causing the downfall of the economy, when a study show it is the disease, not the measures that cause the problem, and that the more strict the measures, the better the economy rebounded afterwards. Just because you believe that your position is logical doesn't mean it is correct.
We all mostly want the same things (except for the 5G tower loonies), but disagree in how to achieve it. I do have a job and I'm not in immediate economic risk, but one would have to be a fool to believe mass unemployment and failing businesses is anything desirable, or good for anyone.
found this article interesting, wish I could find some more on it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrod...ns-from-the-spanish-flu-in-1918/#6a319957797a
The assumption that health and prosperity might be in conflict defies common sense for a reason: it’s not rational, or based on fact.
In fact, the opposite is true: There can be no thriving economic life until families and individuals feel comfortable returning to their normal daily lives, including in many cases their place of work, without undue fear of death and disease.
throwing this in so I can find it later, about to leave work.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/...ment/research-reports/pandemic_flu_report.pdf
another article
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wh...out-avoiding-an-economic-meltdown-51585650601
Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck, both Federal Reserve economists, and Emil Verner, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, say their study found that areas hit hardest by the 1918 pandemic saw a sharp and persistent decline in economic activity. At the same time, the team found that cities that implemented early and extensive interventions, such as social distancing, experienced better bounces in economic activity after the pandemic subsided.
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