Corona Virus

[KSpan]

1 hour ago, jfra78 said:

That's a lot of Kelvin.

[LinvilleGorge]

This is why we won't have football in the fall.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GrantWahl/status/1278380475548139520

The same thing will happen in the NFL.

[MechaZain]

Our government's got the money to let everyone take the rest of the year off if we needed to but they decided that tens of thousands of American lives weren't worth the cash. 

[Happy Panther]

On 6/30/2020 at 1:12 PM, Happy Panther said:

Maine currently requires visitors to have a test or quarantine for 14 days. It is enforced by hotels, BNB, campgrounds etc. NY and NJ and maybe CT have suggested doing the same. I understand it can't be completely enforced but it would help. 

NY, NJ, CT has asked for quarantine on visitors from 16 states including NC.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/30/885792987/n-y-n-j-and-connecticut-add-several-states-to-list-that-must-quarantine

[Happy Panther]

13 minutes ago, MechaZain said:

Our government's got the money to let everyone take the rest of the year off if we needed to but they decided that tens of thousands of American lives weren't worth the cash. 

Our government has the ability to print enough money. It doesn't really have a savings account as far as my understanding goes. If we use GDP as a proxy that would be another $20T for a year. American salary for a year would be around the same. I think that would have massive global economic effects.

[Tbe]

2 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

Our government has the ability to print enough money. It doesn't really have a savings account as far as my understanding goes. If we use GDP as a proxy that would be another $20T for a year. American salary for a year would be around the same. I think that would have massive global economic effects.

20T with zero tax revenue. That’s a very bad situation.

We’d be paying interest on past debt with new debt. Yikes.
 

 

[Wes21]

28 minutes ago, Tbe said:

20T with zero tax revenue. That’s a very bad situation.

We’d be paying interest on past debt with new debt. Yikes.
 

Plus alot of businesses that people expect to go back to work at won't survive.

[stirs]

As we said 300 pages ago, it is a tightrope that has to be walked between health and economy.

Concentrating on just one, would devastate the other

[raz]

1 hour ago, Tbe said:

20T with zero tax revenue. That’s a very bad situation.

We’d be paying interest on past debt with new debt. Yikes.
 

 

what do you think we're doing now?   you understand the debt the country is in right? and has been

Edited July 1, 2020 by raz

[raz]

7 minutes ago, stirs said:

As we said 300 pages ago, it is a tightrope that has to be walked between health and economy.

Concentrating on just one, would devastate the other

health is real.  the economy is not.  

[Wes21]

Just now, raz said:

health is real.  the economy is not.  

"The economy" is people's way to support themselves.  Many will have to pull their kids out of school and move away if they lost their job.  Not cool for you to be so disrespectful towards their reality.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

26 minutes ago, Wes21 said:

"The economy" is people's way to support themselves.  Many will have to pull their kids out of school and move away if they lost their job.  Not cool for you to be so disrespectful towards their reality.

We invented the economy. It's NOT real. We can just as easily modify it.

Health IS real and you only get one life to live.

[cookinbrak]

2 hours ago, MechaZain said:

Our government's got the money to let everyone take the rest of the year off if we needed to but they decided that tens of thousands of American lives weren't worth the cash. 

Not to be a dick, but you do realize that 2/3 to 3/4 of people still work, right? People are working as I type this to keep the electricity on and the internet working.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

5 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

In early November, we'll just be starting cold/flu season.

The reality is that Trump bet his presidency on COVID running it's course quickly and a resulting quick V-shaped economic recovery despite every virologists and epidemiologist on the planet saying that was the least likely scenario. He bet big and he lost big.

He wasn't briefed