Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

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Projections from the White House are all based on maintaining social distancing until August.

The South will just begin to hit its peak around 5/1.

Things will get as bad as projected if states decide May 1st is a start date.
I get that but if the economy stays closed till August we are going into a full depression. That’s just the economic facts. The economy shut down for three weeks and look at the carnage on the job market. We got seasonal jobs that do well in spring and summer that if stay closed those people will lose their jobs. Another 4 months? Nah that is economic suicide. We will be in a depression worst that the last one. And I for one do not want to see that. This country cannot survive with unemployment north of 20%.
 

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Most of these reactivations are likely people that never actually got rid of it in the first place and had false negatives. I posted a text from an epidemiologist either yesterday or the day before in here. I can repost it in the morning if it’s hard to find. I think we’ll be good on that front.
Makes sense, go ahead and repost it though breh. :aicmon:
 

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I get that but if the economy stays closed till August we are going into a full depression. That’s just the economic facts. The economy shut down for three weeks and look at the carnage on the job market. We got seasonal jobs that do well in spring and summer that if stay closed those people will lose their jobs. Another 4 months? Nah that is economic suicide. We will be in a depression worst that the last one. And I for one do not want to see that. This country cannot survive with unemployment north of 20%.
You'll get an another round(s) of stimulus before this is done.

You let the economy open up and 200K are dead by August and not only are people mourning mass loss, they are afraid to work. Now you've really got a depression on your hands. You've let the virus become unstoppable, both physically and psychologically.

You have to take the pain upfront. Letting the virus ravage the population, overload the healthcare system, and kill hundreds of thousands would also be political suicide for the current federal government.

Mitigate death as much as possible, buy your healthcare system some time, and maybe its possible we can get things moving again in Q3 albeit at a far reduced pace.

That's really only plan that is going to work and its the one the entire world is taking right now.
 
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Trump doesnt even have authority to reopen the country. He didnt even issue a national lockdown to shut it down in the first place so what the fukk is he talking about?

Can he even withhold funding from states that dont lift quarantines?
Taking Trump out the equation alot of governors are going to be under pressure politically and economically to re-open. We have to understand state governments are losing a lot of tax revenue with places closing. The Federal reserve the other day implemented a 2.3 trillion lending programs for all types of bonds including for municipal bonds. But for how long? The Federal reserves balance sheet is going to be larger than the GDP of this country sometime next week. We are in real uncharted territory. I say red states will open up sooner especially around mid May.
 

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Trump doesnt even have authority to reopen the country. He didnt even issue a national lockdown to shut it down in the first place so what the fukk is he talking about?

Can he even withhold funding from states that dont lift quarantines?
He's not talking about anything. It's up to the states.
 

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Taking Trump out the equation alot of governors are going to be under pressure politically and economically to re-open. We have to understand state governments are losing a lot of tax revenue with places closing. The Federal reserve the other day implemented a 2.3 trillion lending programs for all types of bonds including for municipal bonds. But for how long? The Federal reserves balance sheet is going to be larger than the GDP of this country sometime next week. We are in real uncharted territory. I say red states will open up sooner especially around mid May.

He's not talking about anything. It's up to the states.

Thats what im saying

So when hes like oh this is the biggest decision i have to make...wtf does that mean? Its up to the states. Hes a fukking moron. So unless hes going to threaten state funding hes got nothing
 
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