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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
What the hell did you think was going to happen? When you tell a country of 350 million people to simply stay home, you really think you can avoid 100+ million of them losing their jobs? We're a service economy and when you combine the collapse of service industry jobs w/ the shuttering of significant industrial components of our economy, how the hell did you not expect at least 20% unemployment over any sort of timeline?
There is NO clean path through this. It doesn't exist. Anyone that is still sitting around acting like "JUST STAY HOME!" is some simple, clean, effective long-term plan to getting through this is simply lying to themselves and they have been from the very beginning.
It isn't about valuing money over lives. It isn't about 'not taking this seriously'. It's about having a clear-eyed view of this thing. The 'peak' in April is almost certainly temporary. It'll peak....briefly. Then just like the Spanish flu before it, there will be a secondary wave of infections that will be as bad or worse and it will take aim at a population you've already crippled.
Because nobody is keeping their eyes on an end game or even attempting to formulate one. They are just waiting for a cavalry to show up that almost certainly isn't coming.
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Stfu... I'm just saying that is a large number not saying I didn't expect it.
Mr 'Lets not practice social distancing because the economy is more important!' You ain't saying that shit now are you? Acting like you are perfect with your predictions.