Churches are closed where I live.
In terms of economic triage, homeless folks are at the bottom of the list, for me, currently.
I really like the idea of giving to DCF though.
Yeah typically a good place to start. Maybe reach out to some foster homes or agencies. Still going to have kids pulled from unsafe homes, still going to have kids go AWOL, etc. Honestly the potential for those things are going to be higher we expect on our end. So our department is anticipating even more need for families and children already at risk.
Iāll be working from home solely still but will probably be working more than ever. Well at least more than ever since I took this job.
That is good. I think most churches have pretty good technology? Seems like doing a live stream would be pretty easy to set up.
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No doubt those mega churches have the money. With churches having so many elderly people in attendance it makes even less sense to gather in groups.
I should have added that itās Catholic churches. I donāt know about the heretics.
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True. My thought are just to look at what they have done differently to us that is working. The article gives a limited picture.
Yes, it says many businesses have lot 50% or more of their sales despite still being open. But down by 50% is better than 100%. Again, my concern is for the economic impacts once this is over. South Korea is showing that it can be minimized while still controlling the spread of the virus, and that is the best possible scenario in this situation.
What if the government provided masks to each household?
Hereās the thing with masks - they arenāt 100% effective, but they do provide some protection. Also you arenāt normally supposed to re-use masks or wear them for more than a couple hours, but this virus can only survive for up to a few hours in most environments and up to 2-3 days on smooth surfaces. So if you have one mask, what you could do to be on the safe side is only go shopping every 3 days at most and put the mask in a plastic bag or something of that sort to keep any possible contamination contained and wait for the virus to die off. I have 2 masks, it looks like that is what Iām going to be doing.
Yes, it is a logical coincidence, but a coincidence nonetheless. Iām not claiming that Dean Koontz is some sort of prophet or is part of George Sorosā plan to kill us all.
I got that impression too, but sometimes you can learn from people you donāt like. And shutting everything down doesnāt exactly look like what I would call freedom either.
The numbers keep going up and up. Yesterday it was 25 billion, this morning 27, now this:
Trudeau promises $82B in economic supports in COVID 19 fight
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/trudeau-promises-dollar82b-in-economic-supports-in-covid-19-fight/ar-BB11mL9O?ocid=spartanntp
How are we going to pay the bill?
Iām willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater on this one, especially when itās being delivered wrapped in a hit piece on western values.
What we have is a temporary inconvenience. What China and North Korea, and I donāt know enough about South Korea to say- is gunpoint compliance. All the time.
They shoot you dead and leave your body to be collected by your family, or rot in the process of a state burial.
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Assuming Canadaās population to be ~40m, it would be only pocket change to my wealthy neighborās above me at ~$2100 each.
New cases in Italy spiked 20% again. They were pretty steady at 3500/day for four straight days and have spiked to a new high of 4200 today.
Australia is a week and a half behind us but seems to be following the same trajectory - discrediting the theory that warm weather will help mitigate this.
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That number could be going even lower for them. Weāre not at 100% or near it by any means.
Itās early in all of this though. The situation will be much different in the coming weeks/months.
Again Iād say erring on the side of doing too much at least at this point probably makes more sense than being in a situation where we say weāve done too little. To me the first scenario is a way lower risk than the second.
We over-reacted and weāre good to move forward now sounds a lot better than we under-reacted and we have a health crisis of unimaginable proportions. The economy aināt going to work real well if everyones too busy caring for sick people to work. No ones going to the movies, out to eat, any of that stuff if they have family members who are in the hospital and we have big amounts of death.
The fear is not just coronavirus killing people. Itās hospitals that canāt take care of other conditions as well when all of the sudden we drastically increase the number of sick people. Coronavirus itself may not be super deadly to many. But doctors and nurses who canāt treat everything and a lack of medical supplies undoubtedly is.
To an extent, sure. Iām not in the cabinet meetings to give you a definitive answer either way.
Completely agree. Paranoia and over-reaction now is likely the wiser option.
Where in what I said did you get that? No, China is responsible for the pandemic. They are responsible for the last several epidemics. The Bird Flu. Swine Flu and Wuhan Virus, all China. In the immortal words of my favorite Hong Kong resident:
China is indeed, ASSHOLE!
Wasnāt the Swine Flu from Mexico?
Thatās where the first humans contracted it I believe and they think the first humans got Ebola from Africa.
Hey now donāt be dissing the place Trump had all his items originally made from!
And Zika was from Brazil.