If the blue states close down long enough, the red states will suffer. Blue states on average pay into the federal government more than they take. Red states generally take more than they pay (except Texas). Blue states pay for a good amount of the federal programs in red states.
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Based on the stuff Iāve been hearing from my friend who is now ārecoveredā, it sounds similar to a serious car crash - a massive shock to the entire body, with consequences popping up weeks, months and maybe years later.
Four of his toes turned purple due to Covid-19 and no one knows exactly why.
Thatās no good. That could be anything from thrombosis, rapid heart failure (like, rapidly dying. Like my dadās did a couple days before he just kinda slipped away. Docs. said thatās one of the signs anyways).
My toenails were dead for a few months before my heart attack. Iāll be damned if I knew that was something to look out for though.
Unfortunately, it takes a few million people before these things emerge.
Your friend has had a terrible time with this. I hope he makes it in the long run. Give him my best.
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Actually, thatās the problem - usually itās a sign of a serious illness but with Covid-19 itās another thing thatās puzzling doctors without an easily discernible cause.
Thanks man, will do. He did a set of 10 pushups yesterday, so heās very slowly recovering (this is a guy who did Crossfit WoDs religiously only a few months back) but he says that his body still feels āoffā.
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Certainly relatable. I was move a piano/cut down a tree guy before my thing.
I could be entirely mistaken, but the vascular system is composed of the smooth muscle tissue that covid attacks (contains the ace I & 2) which would cause lesions and clots to form (our natural protective mechanism) virtually anywhere throughout the entire body.
Stroke, sudden heart attack, loss of circulation from either the arterial or venous sides through out our entire circulatory systems are all on the table now.
There is still little to no telling how fucked we actually may be. Iām still thinking about a shingles/chicken pox type thing. People cruising along 10-20 years from now, for all intents and purposes thinking theyāre in the clear, then Thump! A freakin clot from a lesion somewhere in their circulatory system lodges in their brain or heart and down they go.
Times like 100-150 million.
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The new normal across the western world with few exceptions. Ireland and Germany being two I can think of off the top of my head.
Interesting question, for giant corporates, the answer is probably stock dividends and stock purchasing.
For SMEās? Who knows? More staff, more stock, a nicer building to house said staff etc.
That said, it would take a robust company to weather a 5 moth stoppage of business, and most company margins are nowhere close to that high.
EDIT:
Ireland
Germany
France
The UK (drat, we were so close to turning that graph down. Alas)
The US
EDIT 2: People havenāt seen the austerity measures that we may need to take in order to patch this roof. It will be eye watering, I imagine.
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What are these graphs of?
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Thatās 100% right. The tax cut is sold first on supply side snake oil (ācompanies will take all that money and build new factories as far as the eye can seeā), then demand side snake oil (ācompanies will spend it like crazy and also give a bunch of it to workers to spend like crazyā) but in actuality, they buy back stocks and pay dividends.
Thus, no deep reserve of retained earnings for a rainy day - just wealthier shareholders who now need a bailout from the US taxpayer.
I agree - that long a stoppage is too painful for a lot of businesses, but the larger ones shouldnāt be desperate.
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It actually helps with both, depending on the mask. Which is why itās important for people to STOP TOUCHING THE FABRIC. Every idiot that grabs the fabric and puts the damn thing on his chin should be free to hit. If you are in an area where itās still hanging in the air from a sneeze or cough, a multiple layer cloth mask will catch most of it. Touching the filter negates using a filter.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-52648557
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/health/coronavirus-children-kawasaki-pmis.html
Why is this not in this thread yet?
āOne of Donald Trumpās confidants, whoās regularly in touch with the president, put the blame squarely on Kushner, saying, āJared had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldnāt do it. That advice worked far more powerfully on [Trump] than what the scientists were saying. He thinks they always exaggerate.ā
Iām glad Jared Kushner remains highly involved in many things and it was definitely important to not spook the stock market by trying to save lives. Thankfully this all worked out real well.
Government debt as a percentage of GDP. Apologies, I should have added that part.
Private debt is another shit show for a different day and thread.
It is, I mentioned it quite a while ago when my virologist friend highlighted it as a concern. This thread is so unwieldy that it was easily missed tbh.
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Any opinion on the microchips? Fake?
Will COVID leave me no refuge?
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I feel like that has to be fake, or taken out of context. something like that.
I mean the govt recieved huuuge pushback when google/Apple initially offered to let the govt track phones to ensure quarantines. Microchips in vaccines is like at the VERY bottom of that slipper slope haha.
Interestingly enough, because of his push for world-wide vaccination through his Foundation; Bill Gates is in the Top Ten Conspiracy Mongers āhitā list. They not only suggest that he is/will be adding Microchips, but that he is deliberately killing children. (To what end is unclear to me).
I believe it is to fight āover populationā, as in he believes the world is currently overpopulated and that we should be worried about reducing the population or limiting it. He does actually believe that part. Killing children? Probably a bit too far.
In the office on Monday to train my replacement. Itās been real, gentlemen.
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