Maine has effectively cancelled summer, which is a massive chunk of the state’s economy. I don’t think our unemployment figures, which are still a staggering 100,000+ in a state of only 1.3 million total, show the true picture. Only today are they accepting applications for people who weren’t eligible before, but are now without income.
53 deaths and counting. One new death per day in the state for almost a month now. My county has been hovering at almost twenty active cases for the last week. Up north you’ve got maybe a dozen confirmed cases in an areas the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.
Clearly, it is time to shut down the state’s economy. It is the only way.
I think this could’ve already been done with less economic damage had Trump done things correctly from the start.
Besides claimed job losses, there is underemployment and jobs with cut hours or people on reduced pay while waiting to go back to work. So this is a very bad situation.
Perhaps shut down all air and sea travel and borders and enforce appropriate quarantine measures sooner or people in the know taking whatever measures for patient zero not be in contact with people.
But these are just my thoughts. I’m not a Virologist, epidemiologist, or someone who knows every important detail of this crisis.
This is where I think many people get it wrong. Trump personally was and is a fucking laughingstock of a figurehead through this crisis and I think his worst traits were highlighted… But, his administration really didn’t do a bad job at all managing the crisis given the information they had, IMO.
plenty of things they could have done better using hindsight. And we will learn from that, and he should be roasted for it just like every other politician has post crisis. But, without using hindsight the biggest missed opportunity, I think, was an early, loud public message that everyone needed to take this seriously, and we were all in it together… It was patriotic to social distance and we Americans could lead the world and stop this virus if we all worked together! Unfortunately, he never really pushed that message and had spent the last 4 years actively dividing and alienating half the country so even if he had it would have rang false to many.
This guy is already a local folk hero and people are lined up outside his restaurant to sit down and dine as we speak. He runs a great place, after all.
The guy’s got a great name too. Rick Savage. Time will tell if he’s right to do what he’s doing, but I think he probably is. A little defiance is what we need right now, as the governor’s response will be quite telling. So far she’s done nothing.
