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re: Where do you stand? Open it back up? Or keep it shut down?
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:15 pm to xxTIMMYxx
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:15 pm to xxTIMMYxx
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Please explain your position as well.
You didn't even explain your own.
My position is that we need to reopen the economy ASAP because we are rapidly reaching a point where having the economy locked down will cause a massive depression that will cause far more misery and death than the Coronavirus could ever hope.
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Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:15 pm to Darth_Vader
Open it up. Survival of the fitness.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:15 pm to Darth_Vader
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Or should we leave it closed through May and perhaps even onto the summer?
there would be no justification for this
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:16 pm to Darth_Vader
Open it up, with limitations
Around end of month, open it up
Around end of month, open it up
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:16 pm to East Coast Band
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The real world that needs to earn a living: "Get this shite over with, I got bills to pay, let's go"
Some of these people (me) are in the camp of "I want to go back to life ASAP but I also don't want another prolonged shutdown because we reopened in the peak of the curve"
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:16 pm to Darth_Vader
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will cause a massive depression
Stock market way up today, though. Investors seem to think we've found the bottom ...
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:16 pm to Tiguar
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the april 30th recommendation should not be extended. maybe even lift it a week or two earlier
Pretty much where I am.
Start opening things back up in stages starting April 18th-20th (depending on if you want to begin on Saturday or Monday) and spend two weeks ramping back up to full speed.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:17 pm to Salmon
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there would be no justification for this
Where is the virus going to go in June? It will still be here
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:17 pm to Darth_Vader
Where? NOLA? Open it up on May 1. This assumes data keeps trending our way. Restaurants open, folks go back to work, and pre-school through middle school opens. Still no large crowds.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to Pettifogger
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Some of these people (me) are in the camp of "I want to go back to life ASAP but I also don't want another prolonged shutdown because we reopened in the peak of the curve"
Will it though?
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to goofball
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Erase China.
Fify
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to Darth_Vader
hard for me to say.
I'm lucky i am able to work from home and keep my job. But that luck could run out soon. Where is line is preventing deaths and not ruining peoples lives in the process. I also have a significant portion of my family and friends working in the medical field and the stories of what is actually going on in hospitals is downright scary.
I'm sympathetic to both sides. I do think if more people would have taken this more seriously in the beginning we would not have had to go as long as we have. If we see the curve starting to flatten in the next month i think we should try to slowly start to reopen.
I'm lucky i am able to work from home and keep my job. But that luck could run out soon. Where is line is preventing deaths and not ruining peoples lives in the process. I also have a significant portion of my family and friends working in the medical field and the stories of what is actually going on in hospitals is downright scary.
I'm sympathetic to both sides. I do think if more people would have taken this more seriously in the beginning we would not have had to go as long as we have. If we see the curve starting to flatten in the next month i think we should try to slowly start to reopen.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to Darth_Vader
Full Open effective immediately
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to yellowfin
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Where is the virus going to go in June? It will still be here
no shite
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:18 pm to EllEssYou45
Should have never taken people’s freedoms away in the first place. If you wanna stay home by all means stay home... although I’m not sure how your gonna make a living that way.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:19 pm to dbeck
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Both.
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dbeck
You are a good poster!
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:19 pm to Penrod
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pre-school through middle school opens.
Schools are not coming back this semester. That ship has sailed. Kids are home through the summer, which causes a major economic disruption regardless of whether parents employers open back up or not.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:19 pm to Darth_Vader
open it up now. Its got a 97% survival rate. Not marginalizing the deaths, but there is a distinct group at a higher risk. Make those most at risk self-quarantine. Everyone else can decide for themselves.
The deleterious effects on the economy will affect a far greater number of people than the virus is/has/will. Sorry but that includes dead people. And whether we overwhelm the healthcare system now- which is still yet to be seen as a universal phenomenon- or we overwhelm it with a depression era economy, we're going to have a negative effect.
The deleterious effects on the economy will affect a far greater number of people than the virus is/has/will. Sorry but that includes dead people. And whether we overwhelm the healthcare system now- which is still yet to be seen as a universal phenomenon- or we overwhelm it with a depression era economy, we're going to have a negative effect.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:19 pm to Darth_Vader
Open up like college freshman's legs at a frat party
Let people make their own choices. Inherent in choice is some amount of risk, we take risks every day - walk out your front door, drive, eat fast food, fly on an airplane, walk into a doctor's office etc. In this country we are CITIZENS, not SUBJECTS. We are all given the freedom to weigh the good/bad and make a judgment call. You're worried about Covid19 or are immunocompromised? Stay home, nobody will fault you for that. The rest of us who accept that getting a bad sickness is just another part of life can go on about our business.
Are you so afraid of death that you're unwilling to live?
Let people make their own choices. Inherent in choice is some amount of risk, we take risks every day - walk out your front door, drive, eat fast food, fly on an airplane, walk into a doctor's office etc. In this country we are CITIZENS, not SUBJECTS. We are all given the freedom to weigh the good/bad and make a judgment call. You're worried about Covid19 or are immunocompromised? Stay home, nobody will fault you for that. The rest of us who accept that getting a bad sickness is just another part of life can go on about our business.
Are you so afraid of death that you're unwilling to live?
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:19 pm to Pettifogger
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but I also don't want another prolonged shutdown because we reopened in the peak of the curve"
Shutting down the world (or at least our country) would seem to be a one time deal, which is the only logical explanation for a longer shutdown.
People may be OK with this shutdown because they have faith that the government will make them whole (we'll see how that works out) but no way people will tolerate a second, or multiple, shutdown(s).
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