What really sucks is the very people saying “all this isn’t a big deal we need to think of the economy” are hurting just that by ignoring health professionals pleas.
It’s honestly blowing my mind. Everyone agrees things being back to normal would be awesome. Everyone agrees a more open economy has tons of benefits. But the best way to do that is get in a spot like the countries that have all but beaten this to the door. It’s not just shutdowns that hurt the economy it’s the millions of people who won’t go out and experience things because they realize we’re in a pandemic.
The stupidity is amazing. It’s like people who are really smart have said we think this here’s a way to get what you want and it’s not hard at all. and people are like “nah I mean I want everything to be back to like it was but I’m not helping out by doing something easy. But I will be yelling loudly about how much we need to give me what I want. And also yelling loudly that I won’t be helping get that.”
From what i have heard from colleagues, not everyone qualified, but most people did get some form of help.
Our 50 person firm received aid, which allowed us to keep a few of the new hires despite them not really being billable as they couldnt be trained properly. But that PPP aid ran out a few weeks back.
So far, the biggest bailout BY FAR has been to the stock market. People lost 30% of their net worth in a span of like 10 days in march and it would have continued going down had the fed not stepped in to print TRILLIONS of dollars and work to prop up the market and banks… and now the market is artificially nearly even or up on the year. It really allowed the rich to get richer because they had the cash on hand to take advantage of the selloff.
The reopening wouldn’t have helped. If data from reopened states is anything to go by, the restaurant in question would still see a 20 to 40% drop in revenue. Considering the relatively low margins of restaurant business in general, there’s no way that would have weathered that storm without some serious additional liquidity.
The restaurants here that have outdoor dining were able to open in May. Indoor dining opened up a little while ago but at 50% capacity. This hurts small places, like the one that closed, because 50% of an already small number won’t make money.
If you want to lose your money, your sanity and end up in an early grave, open a restaurant. I was a minority partner in one, and although I didn’t lose any money in the end, the business model drove me insane.
It’s things like “Pandemic” that I see play out each and every day, that have me begging for an answer to my original question…
"When Does a “Fake” Pandemic Become “Real”?
What exactly do the “Freedom Warriors” and the “Truth Tellers” need to know and see before they realize that this is a virus that at the very least has disrupted out Lives unlike any recent “flu”?
Another question:
What is the ultimate “goal” of what would go down as some of the worst conspirators in World History?
To bring down an impostor of a President, only interested in himself? The Republic will survive Trump and his Band of Misfit toys without bringing the World’s strongest economy to it’s knees.
The depressing answer is “never”. The goalposts are constantly being moved, exposing in their minds an ever larger conspiracy each time. This screenshot is less than six months old, BTW.
I fully expect that by September conspiracy theorists will be claiming that empty coffins are being buried on Florida and some imbecile will attempt to defile a gravesite on a Facebook livestream.
I put the link up for information. I put it up for people to be able to play with the data and make up their own minds.
Contrary to the siloing mentality, present in many places including here. You can have an opinion about the rules still follow them, but object to the reasoning behind them.
You don’t have to assign motive, I saw something I found interesting and posted it. Sooo, that’s it…
Of course you can manage it. There are several different ways to do that, some more drastic than others. It’s not survival like the original Black Death was.
That link makes a case for Covid deaths being undercounted. You’ve posted before that you don’t think the death count is as bad as it is being reported (i.e. it’s overcounted), so what did you think about the link?
It showed both as a possibility. Under where testing wasn’t widely available and over where it was being done en masse.
It showed me we don’t have enough info to make life altering decisions. Mild, reasonable adjustments especially for the most vulnerable.
I don’t even believe a shutdown was unreasonable. But not a 2 month shutdown. 2-3 weeks, max. Not creating mass unemployment and desperatation. The mass 2 month shutdown didn’t even work. That’s something to think about before you do it again. The consequences of being wrong are just to great.
Don’t just react, react appropriately.
