12 months of lockdown is going to cause hell. Millions of people will die. Maybe tens of millions. There may be wars and revolutions. There may be famines.
Like all the people who have these white collar jobs who can wfh are all cool with long term lock down while the guy here who has a job delivering shit by truck is already going out of business after less than a week.
It’s more likely going to be a cycle of lockdown/letup. With some luck maybe a summer pause and/or better treatments.
You obviously don’t need 12 months of lockdown. China is already no longer under full lockdown and essential businesses never were under lockdown. However it could be 12 months before going to a restaurant or a bar is possible again and any business that can work from home will work from home for a long time.
I mean do we all more or less agree that if we do absolutely nothing to slow the spread - the end result looks something like millions dead in the US, bring out your dead wagons, fortress hospitals for the rich, war zone hospitals for everyone else, and a generation of traumatized hospital workers? Like Italy x10 at least?
Whether or not that’s preferable to possible famines and revolutions is a legitimate debate. But I still don’t see any way society lets that happen. Not when people start seeing their loved ones die on Facetime and have to attend a Zoom funeral. Well, I guess we can still have normal funerals in a do nothing scenario.
And once we finally get enough fucking masks for everyone that should help a lot as well.
Right, I didn’t mean to somehow give the impression that my daughter is deathly ill. She has a 100 degree temperature and a mild cough and is otherwise acting fine except that she may be playing with her ear a little bit. She’s barely more fussy than normal.
Can you look in her ear? When my kids had an ear infection you could see redness and swelling.
Anyone else expecting deaths to be a lot higher for younger people in the U.S. because we have such a higher obesity rate? I’m having a bit of a panic since I’m not in great shape. Going to try to change that now to reduce my odds of dying when I get coronavirus.
Yeah, I tried before she went to sleep and her ear in total looks a little red. The problem is, she was pulling at her ear, which makes it turn red . I’m calling int he morning and hoping the doctor just remote prescribes Amox like Wookie’s did.
Do you have a source on this being safe and effective for this? That’s assuming I can even find plain bleach.
can the government just give everyone who was making $15/hr bar tending or waitressing a monthly unemployment and food stamps and stop utilities from getting turned off and prevent evictions ?
Give landlords forward tax credits.
Stopping utilities being switched off isn’t that simple. An energy company has significant costs in every bill. If they don’t get paid, that’s a problem.
Maybe not short term, moderate impact. But if 40% of people are out of a job for 6 months and can’t pay the bill, that’s a problem.
These costs land somewhere.
Much respect to everyone involved with this deep-cut reference to the completely unnecessary Ghostbusters sequel. I can’t believe anyone remembers that!
The only reason I remember this movie was because for some insane reason I had a cassette of the Ghostbusters II soundtrack as a young child and I played that endlessly like a small child wanting to watch Frozen over and over and over again, and let me tell you there are some hidden gems of 80’s rap on that album. I don’t even really like 80’s rap, but Doug E. Fresh and Run DMC just killed it on this soundtrack to a pointless cash-grab Hollywood sequel:
Maybe lower smoking though? Also in the higher-density population centers where this thing spreads like crazy people tend to be fitter.
Most bar tenders and waitstaff make a lot less than $15/hr.
NY Times is picking up the taste/smell thing now
Heckuva job Gaynor! Brownie sends his regards.
Traveled from Colombia to US a week ago today. Developed a temperature tonight, current 100.7. I’m a healthy 41 year old, so not concerned about myself.
Was with my mother earlier today though. 68, cancer a couple times and high blood pressure. We did our best to stay at a safe distance. Damn I hope I didn’t give it to her.
Most hospitals are going to end up using the same ones daily, no time to do that.