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Is he really going back to flu and cars again...after doing so yesterday...and after Fauci disagreed with him about that narrative last week?Meanwhile at the Fox virtual town hall that Trump is participating in (that I can't bring myself to watch)
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1242497671266537472
Trump is talking about the number of flu deaths. "We don't turn the country off" because of that, he says. He then invokes car accidents; he says we didn't tell car companies "stop making cars."
Maybe we can do some kind of house swap between the blue and red states. Get people living with the parent of their choice.
Based on statistics reported by Galbraith in The Great Crash 1929, the suicide rate in the United States increased from 17.0 per 100,000 people in 1929 to 21.3 in 1932 during the worst of the financial calamity.
Moving the goalposts from where? Some in here were implying as recently as last night that he has been implying he's ready to open things back up tomorrow. If that's how some of you really felt, isn't that great news to you?
As long as the goalposts are pushed back.
And yet...people will defend stuff like this.
CDC actions could certainly be related to Trump appointee actions. It’s hard to know for sure.
Imagine have to choose between a disease spreader and a disease catcher.
Could be...but none of those appear to be directed by Trump...so not necessarily accurate to claim they are Trump actions...that is the point. Why defend this?
Defend what? How administrative actions relate to the President? It’s hard to know so I’m just looking for consistency. I don’t expect I’ll find it here though. That much seems clear.
Or, you could do it this way...
Consistency...yes...consistently Im not going to automatically claim a CDC action is the action of POTUS...HTH
No capacity to. Sadly, his base is more interested in his re-election than the economy—which most certainly will buckle further with tens of thousands sick and dying—not to mention, you know...the sick and dying part. As the position has been made abundantly clear already (even here), people get sick and die all the time what’s the big deal?
Sadly my Uncle Jim has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - and his chemo treatments are currently on hold.
Use the report button so we can see the posts that are way over the line. Thank you. But please use some judgement and only report stuff way over the line. The mods are busy like everyone else so please don't waste their time.BladeRunner said:
Government mandated shutdowns of “non-essential” businesses are already deciding that.Sadly my Uncle Jim has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - and his chemo treatments are currently on hold.
But - for the small business owner - we should be helping him/her out. For the laid off employee - we should be helping him/her out. For the economy - we should be dumping money into the hands of 300M consumers, and let them decide which businesses are worth saving.
You have way more faith in the government's ability to do this the right way than I do. I hope all of that happens.
Not really - at least not if we get the stimulus package right.
Governments are not shutting down businesses, as much as they are shutting down industries.
Yes, really. Some of them are already cooked due to cash flow problems. The stimulus package won’t be able to save a lot of small businesses.
Of course. The alternative is...proceed as if nothing is happening? Sounds like a lot of folks just want to ignore the reality of this pandemic or, worse.
Lets be real then - a business that can't recover from a month of lost revenues, is probably like the patient described above who has 3 conditions and Covid.
Targeted force stock sales in the middle of a stock market crash? I can totally seeing that pass Constitutional muster. Good thinking!
Definitely. The status quo is going to have to remain in place for some time, followed by some loosening. The timing is going to be difficult. I don’t have the answers. Getting it wrong either way will create problems.
Cruise lines...maybe they can get help from whatever small island country tax shelter flag they fly. Or maybe they’re dodged enough taxes over the years to cover themselves. Not a taxpayer problem.
I have run a few businesses - profitably.
I ran my own law practice for a time.
A business running on a tight margin, is always a candidate to go under when there is an underlying event to interrupts business. I'd like to save as many as we can - in fact I would let the cruise industry sink, to spend that money to help small business owners weather the storm.
There are alternatives outside of proceeding as if nothing is happening. Is that really lost on you?
i read yesterday that Dr. Quick pulled herself out of China in July 2019
It’s not dangerous, it’s optimistic. We really don’t know how things are going to proceed. I would love to see some loosening of restrictions by Easter, but only time will tell.
Hospice care has helped. With socialized medicine, people may live even longer, on average. We need to stop ordering expensive procedures, hospitalizations and drugs in many circumstances, not just for the elderly.
This is a really unfortunate reply, both in taste and in content, in response to what was a very thoughtful post.
