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It's been proven that there was Covid 19 in Seattle by the third week of January. That means it was already in the wild and there were likely hundreds of thousands of undetected cases by mid-February.
In fairness, it’s not like the bagel guys was sitting in his open store all day hoping no customers show up.
Millions of employed people are already now unemployed.
Forget the blonde doctor's name but she was motioning that admiral away to not stand so close to her.
If that were true, there would have been tens of thousands of people in hospitals in mid-February. That didn't happen.
Maybe people don't trust corporations to not lay off workers, pay executives, and use money for things like stock buybacks. Paying workers directly prevents foreclosures and allows for consumer spending.
Your not thinking about the incubation period. Also, what if the infection rate is not as high as we believe?
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That's why you tie the cash to maintaining staff levels for X months/years or you have to repay the "loan".
Six foot hug back at ya. Sorry dude.Well...I just got the word. Museum is hemorrhaging money. 50% of our revenue comes from visitors. No visitors - no revenue.
So I just got furloughed.
Actually feel OK though. We are fine financially (I hope) and the not knowing was the worst part.
Stay safe and happy friends :cheers:
And that's going to be enforced how? By self-policing by the people that profit off of ignoring those rules?
I feel like we can manage an extra Corporate tax form that requires evidence of keeping jobs active. I don't think anyone is suggesting honor system here.
not sure about the rest of this stuff but I agree with you that it's a sucker bet to believe any info coming out of China. We're talking about an authoritarian dictatorship that wouldn't even admit a problem three months ago and has absolutely no incentive to tell the truth to the rest of the world.
Hmm..given that our own Senators are engaging in profit taking and the fact that our corporate history is that in every instance corporations take profits over workers...I'm gonna say just give the checks to the workers.
It is. I'm also embarrassed to ask you @gianmarco but have you happened to see a Rod Carew autographed Angel's hat around your house? It's my lucky hat. Perhaps in the master bath?
sorry to hear it brother. I work at a university and am hearing some pretty worrying rumblings about similar stuff here tooWell...I just got the word. Museum is hemorrhaging money. 50% of our revenue comes from visitors. No visitors - no revenue.
So I just got furloughed.
Actually feel OK though. We are fine financially (I hope) and the not knowing was the worst part.
Stay safe and happy friends :cheers:
My brother lives in the Irvine hills above Newport Beach. The photos he's sending are pretty amazing. Grew up in SoCal and never saw the air so clear.
How would you enforce that? Companies have a long history of not doing what they say they will do.
Piecemeal is exactly what we need. Why shut down vast regions of the country that have little risk of exposure. As risk increases, then invoke “Safe at Home” policies.
I just don’t see how mandatory quarantine of the entire country is even remotely in the realm of possibility.
There's a difference between social distancing and self isolation. Social distancing should be mandatory. Unessential businesses should be closed.
On the most recent Freakonomics podcast, they had an economist who estimated China’s temporary efforts to reduce air pollution before their Olympics saved 50,000 lives.
That's what we're supposed to be doing, but there were a lot of unessential businesses making people go to work.
