Message from @ETBrooD
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A balenced responce to the Corona Virus is necessary. The people are the economy and shutting down everything for more then 3 weeks will kill off thousands of small businesses, which will put even more people in the streets. Businesses are the employers and tax payers. Even the giant evil corporations could go under in less then a month. I'm all for "Fuck the GDP", a dip in value and productions is to be expected, but the attitude here is that people think we can go without incomes for weeks and everything will be better then the affects of Corona.
More people died of the flu last year but this is the reason to go back to the dark ages and tank the economy we will need to produce things like food, water, facemasks and so on. It's not just an arbitrary number, it represents things in the real world that people need. If you turn it off, it will never come back on. California and New York are going to go down the tubes and probably never fully recover for a long time. Take that, Donald Drumpf. The economy is bad now!
At least half the population thinks socialism is good. This kind of reasoning doesn't work on them. Many would rather see people starve or get shot than see their worldview shattered.
Chinese proverb (prob a curse) :
*May you live in interesting times!*
I think that “Half the population thinks socialism is good” stat came from a manipulatively-worded survey, I don’t think they outright asked “Do you think socialism is good?”
Most people are retarded.
End of argument
New York could recover in significantly less than a decade, doing better thereafter, if given a good dose of the ol' shock therapy at the end of this.
dat optimism doe
It's not optimistic at all. The estimate is very conservative and the chances of such an event coming to pass are so low I'd sooner buy lottery tickets.
The worst thing is
Both the left and the right are mostly against the idea of a lockdown, no matter if it becomes neccessary or not
I don't believe it's ever *necessary* unless the emergency at hand has the capacity to depopulate an area. The question is merely if a lockdown at the current moment is a sound idea.
I'd have said yes unequivocally two months ago.
Two months ago would've been so perfect
Imagine all the countries just immediately shutting down their borders and telling people they'll have to stay off the streets, the moment China farted.
Would've been such a middle finger to the people's republic
That would have worked brilliantly, and two thousands in Italy would still be sipping wine and enjoying mozzarella.
but nobody would listen to the lockdown anyways
That's why you close borders
normies still acting like this just a coof
I'm not a fan of authoritarianism, but it's completely realistic that people would stay off the streets. You just gotta keep spraying them at infrequent intervals in rotation.
Ah well, I suppose there's still a silver lining- F@H is the most powerful supercomputer on the planet and we've looked into methods to stop future diseases that were previously never explored.
Even if no one learns anything, we've still moved forwards in those respects.
Never heard of that, seems very interesting
A cure seems to be the last best hope we have of avoiding most of the damage at this point, vaccines against something this mutationally inclined are practically worthless. F@H provides the platform for that research and right now I'm waiting for the next workload to process, so upscaling the system to mass-test compounds seems like a very viable approach even for future disease.
One day humankind will face a virus that they can't stop anymore. A large % of the population will die, the rest pass on their immunity. Way of life.
covid is a joke compared to what's gonna happen then
"meaning most americans are now niggers"
"hence why "conservatives" are not conservatives"
Its an emergency. And there is party politics at play.
There are many reasons why Conservatives can be criticized at failing to Conserve anything meaningful, this is not one of them
So this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause.
The question to ask yourself is, do people NEED this money. The answer is yes, the government is shutting things down to contain the virus. People physically can't make money because of a government action. They need a bit of help.
The measures taken - such as this - to contain the virus will end up killing many thousands of people. But since there won't be a way to prove the cause-and-effect of that, most people will simply go along with it.
the government rapes us in taxes, so if we need them to float the economy for a bit then its still basically paid and funded by the people.
Libertarians on suicide watch
If only they didn't waste a ton of money on pointless wars and military equipment we don't need
Then paying each American $1000 would be an imaginary issue