@Sooner wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
It is going to get much worse before it gets better. If the country had simply shut down for 6-8 weeks, like other countries did, we would have been able to open businesses back up with success and this would never have happened. Shame on this country for allowing this to happen.
@willdob3 It isn't possible to close down the country for a month. Police, fire, health care, pharmacy, grocery stores, banks, car repair, gas stations, and hundreds of other businesses cannot close. Houses get sold, court cases have to be tried, public utilities.
So all these people have homes to go to, can't quarantine, so the virus will spread and be in the population. AND when things reopen as they must or people will starve from being jobless and the economy crashing forever, the virus will spread more rapidly.
It is inevitable that that will happen. And at that point, it is what it is. You can't legislate it away or shut down and eliminate it. At some point, people are out and about and the virus will do whatever it is going to do.
I'm not viewing this from any stand but it seems to me that it is simply what will happen. We can be careful, but at some point it's going to run through the population. It's like a pachinko machine. And one ball is going to drop sometime.
@Sooner
Other countries managed to shut down 95% and they are in a much better place with fewer infections, deaths and better economies. Because we view the economy to be more important than health, we are paying the price. And we will continue to. The walls are crumbling around us. If we don’t decide to make hard changes regarding health and safety, even harder changes will be made by the virus regardless of what we want. Regardless of how many businesses will be lost.
@willdob3 But the economy is as important as the health issues. Without it there will be few jobs, much hunger, no tax money, no money to run welfare, social security, health programs, food programs, charities will go broke. The impact of that is staggering.
The US is bigger than most countries and has a broad based internationally connected economy. People can't go without electricity and grow a garden and keep a cow like before WWII. What would happen to our urban populations without a robust economy? Many would starve.
@Sooner
I disagree. If everyone is sick or dead from the virus there is no economy. You can’t have a healthy economy with an out of control pandemic. Just look around you. Health trumps everything. Is it staggering to think of what it would take? Definitely. Is what we are currently facing staggering? Definitely.
I do agree that that people will starve - people are going hungry now. Everything horrible we can think of and then some is likely to occur. That is why we need a national approach and effort with aid that will help real people.
We are not currently getting what we need to help the national health or economic problems. It is killing both our people and our economy. We are currently on a worst case scenario path. Just ask any top health or economic expert. The effort and sacrifice it will take to turn things around will be staggering and hard like none of us have experienced before. But, if we don’t make that supreme effort and rally together for the good of all, we will continue to decline.
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