Everyone assumed that staying inside was buying time for the federal response to become competent. The hope was that they were just caught flat footed, but are capable of competence. Now, who knows. Ideally we'd be waiting for testing/tracing/universal masks, better treatment.
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agree, this is what i was waiting for in march.
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Are supply chains breaking down now due to shelter in place (as opposed to the virus itself)? Aren’t most logistics and factories classified as essential? Seems like the big economic hit is to services and non-covid, non-emergency health care
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it doesn't matter if a factory is "allowed" to remain open if no one can afford to buy what that factory is producing. "essential services" aren't unaffected by the economy. a global depression will cripple our supply chains.
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Stop conflating stay inside forever with stay inside for another 3 to 6 mo. The supply chain can almost certainly take that. Surely 2yrs would mean economic oblivion. Im sure as hell not advocating that. With so many scientific/economic unknowns, haphazard reopening is foolish.
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if we stay inside another 6 months (?!) we will absolutely slip into a global depression, supply chains will be compromised, and probably millions or tens of millions of people will lose reliable access to, among everything else, food. fuel. medicine.
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one of the things that amazes me about our age is how everything ends up as some X vs Y thing - like there aren't 4 million different options available. Are the only 2 options everyone stay at home forever or whatever "open up the economy" means?
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It’s the Age of False Choices.
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There is a cost in life to “staying inside forever” too, but that group isn’t being honest about it either.
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The cost of this path will be like the line in The Sun Also Rises about how one goes bankrupt “gradually and then suddenly.”
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