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I'm not going back to normal a good 2-4 weeks after most.  It's just frustrating knowing some are chomping at the bit and are thus guaranteeing another bump in cases when they resume normalcy.

There was always going to be a bump in cases once society re-opened. There was always going to be a 2nd wave of infection no matter what we did. No way to truly beat this thing without a vaccine or new anti-viral drugs. And a vaccine isn't coming for at least a year, and who knows if an effective anti-viral drug ever will come through the pipeline. We can't keep everything shutdown for an entire year or more. That just isn't possible. If that happened, the global economic contraction of 3% that the IMF is currently predicting would probably look more like 10%. Something like that would be more devastating and catastrophic than the actual virus. I don't know if you remember how terrible the Great Recession was just 10+ years ago or so. Yeah, it was pretty freaking bad. The global economy shrank back then by just less than .1%. If we locked down for a year until there was a vaccine and global economic contraction hit anywhere near 10%- that'd be literally 100x worse than the Great Recession and you'd be talking about something that hasn't been seen since the Great Depression in which global economic contraction was around 16%.

Yeah, no thanks. I'd rather take my chances with this virus.

Ok then.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-diplomats-warned-about-safety-risks-in-wuhan-labs-studying-bats-two-years-before-coronavirus-outbreak/

Interesting.

I Found The Source of the Coronavirus - YouTube

posted by Mdot a while back

Edward Snowden with a great interview on Vice about how governments will use this crisis to try and gain power and abuse those powers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjnveyJo

I can't stand Fox News, but I actually don't mind Tucker Carlson. Sometimes. He's one of the few people on cable news that will sometimes go on the air and tell the truth. 

Good Segment,nice to hear that coming from a Stanford University Medical Professor

this is just shameful. Stimulus checks to families/people in need are going to be delayed by a few days just so they can add Trump's name to them. Like wtf? Why are they even sending physical checks out? How come they couldn't have done instant payments via direct deposit to bank accts, paypal, cashapp, square, zelle, etc., etc.. Even pre-loaded debit card would've been a better idea than a physical check.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-name-on-stimulus-check-irs-coronavirus_n_5e965be0c5b6ead140045899?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

I can't stand Fox News, but I actually don't mind Tucker Carlson. Sometimes. He's one of the few people on cable news that will sometimes go on the air and tell the truth. This is a very interesting segment he did on the actual fatality rate of the virus. It's probably lower than 1%. Way lower.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjCitwKJSQ

I'm the other way.  20 years ago, I liked Tucker Carlson.
Now I think he's just a rabble-rousing populist.
But I repeat myself.

this is just shameful. Stimulus checks to families/people in need are going to be delayed by a few days just so they can add Trump's name to them. Like wtf? Why are they even sending physical checks out? How come they couldn't have done instant payments via direct deposit to bank accts, paypal, cashapp, square, zelle, etc., etc.. Even pre-loaded debit card would've been a better idea than a physical check.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-name-on-stimulus-check-irs-coronavirus_n_5e965be0c5b6ead140045899?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

The paper checks are going to people who don't have direct deposit or bank accounts or any of that stuff.  You know, poor people.  So Trump delaying payments to the poorest people is par for the course.