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Yeet

I'm rereading it as it has been a while

About 5 months

As a layperson regarding trade, what is the difference between NAFTA and USMCA

Well, one wasnt signed with a pen that may or may not have been in Monica Lewinski's mouth.

Spread this shit. Nowhere near as bad is MSM is saying, they're purposefully trying to bring down the economy and it's obvious as fuck... yet soooo many idiots are falling for it.

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/

I'm watching our local news tonight, ABC 7 Chicago 10 PM - standard evening news. everyone is buying into this. there is no doubt in anyone's mind that shutting down our economy like this is the best thing we can do.

personally, I am holding my breath, but I feel like this is made out to be something much larger than it is. every year, the flu virus mutates and a new strain washes through society. every 4-5 years, some new crazy strain has come out of this Wuhan lab. we've never shut down our country, and it kills 20-100k people every year through Pneumonia and other complications.

the medical industry in the United States has been producing flu vaccines for decades, and they've become popular. every year, they keep track of which strains are new and which are resurgent. they weigh the pros and cons and decide, strategically, what it's best to innoculate people against. they produce the vaccines, typically dead or dying flu cells which can give you a mild case of the flu, but causes your body to produce antibodies that protect you from those strains throughout the entire flu season.

they give out these shows in october, november... because flu season is from then until it warms up

so along comes COVID-19, right after they release the shot.

dammit, the timing of that.

anyways, I think this isn't going to be much more than a normal flu. however, since we're all sheltering-in-place and shutting down, far less people will die.

we could do this every 4-5 years and save lives

every time China releases another one of these things....

anyways, what I am struck by, is Trump's masterstroke here.

he gives the media what they want, shuts down the country.

he saves a lot of lives.

(20k-100k, down to 500-1k?)

for what a normal bad flu season would do

and in the meantime, we have tens of millions of people, all around the country, innovating and coming up with new ways of doing things.

my doctor texted me this morning, apparently they can now do tele-medicine. so if I feel sick at all, he can skype me or whatever they use.

Amazon is hiring delivery people. food service delivery like uber eats, door dash, and that other one... there's going to be a huge spike in demand.

but there's also people like me - starting a brand new online business where I used to work in an office.

how many others are doing this? re-evaluating their options and deciding to try something new?

listening to Scott Adams the past couple days, talking about how America is evolving through this crisis, not being stifled by it.

it's its own opportunity.

and I wonder how much Trump realizes this, and that's why he's pandering to the media, knowing that this is just another flu, perhaps a nasty respiratory component, but we've seen it before.

and when this is done?

when the final death toll in the US is 1,785 people, mostly sick or elderly already.

the media will mourn them, and Trump will have kept 100,000 people from dying

and we'll get Minnesota, too.

interesting take

my friend

Considering they are saying the first infection was sometime in November, this virus has probably been here for some time. It was probably assumed to be the Flu. Ive heard from several people who have been sick over the last couple months and their symptoms match the virus perfectly. Trump is using the media hysteria to his advantage, IMO. Shutting everything down will help "flattern the curve", keep the death toll lower than it otherwise would be, lower than other countries, and he can claim victory. The markets will bounce back as soon as this is over. I was surprised to hear them mention the July-August timeframe. Knowing Trump, he will say August, when they know it will be July. Finishing ahead of schedule, another victory, though saying that timeframe now will cause some economic troubles short term, he is thinking long term