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Originally Posted by crystalworks
QFT. This is my greatest fear. The country is not built to handle 2-6 months (maybe a year) of little to no production. Parachute money may help individuals in the short term but how much damage is it going to do long term. Can't just keep printing money...
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I'm as scared as Overboost is, if not more. I also had to send all my employees home this Friday*. CA governor Gavin Newsom has imposed stay at home mandate for all but essential businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, auto repairs, and infrastructure builders.
When can we get back to business as usual?
I believe if we work to stay ahead of the curve, or rather "flatten the curve" the worst of it will be behind us quickly (although nobody knows just how quickly it will be) and we can resume our daily lives and the machines of our economy can start again.
Look into what China has done, what Korea and Singapore has done. There's plenty of good strategies that we can revise to fit our own and perhaps improve upon it to reduce the infection rate.
China did it in slightly less than 2 months. From the highest infection rate of over 10,000 new cases per day in January to low double digits as of this week.
Most of the factories has started producing again. Many of the major cities in China are starting to lift their lock down policy.
That is a dramatic success.
You look at Italy and you see that it has for the first time surpassed China in total infected cases.
Whatever they are doing, it is not enough and we should not use their strategy as a workable model for our country.
Btw, as of today:
total confirmed cases 337,000+[2][3]
Recovered 97,000+[2][3]
Deaths 14,600+[2][3]
This is a global phenomenon, and if you calculate the mortality rate globally by using the total number of cases which had an outcome (that's recovered cases + cases that ended in death), it is now at 13%.
While I applaud EODguy for getting us this 1.3% in the usa, which is somewhat comforting, I feel it's a bit misleading as you're not including all the medical data from around the world.
While it's true that this virus's effect on individual country might be different due to a lot of variables that are not equal in each country, it is still prudent to consider its overall impact throughout the world.
Thinking that this disease is a lesser threat than a "regular flu" and that we're still only at 1.3% is both a bit too optimistic and dangerously misinformed, IMHO.