COVID-19 - How worried are you?

[Miggs]

I'm a Socialist lmfao!!!!! Nope, try again dimwit.

 

[Rubashov]

The only way this will be true for anyone, any business, is if there no reserve of assets/preparations that can last three months without going bankrupt.

Yeah they're a relatively new business made it through that difficult first 12 months, everything trending up, now this.

 

[magic]

Probably too early to ask, especially on this forum, but from a purely economic point of view, what is worse:
1. Letting 1.5 million to 6.5 million old people (and at risk people) die and letting the economy continue as usual
2. Doing what we're doing now (i.e. quarantine, making businesses suffer, letting the stock mark tank) to save the old

 

[babe]

Probably too early to ask, especially on this forum, but from a purely economic point of view, what is worse:
1. Letting 1.5 million to 6.5 million old people (and at risk people) die and letting the economy continue as usual
2. Doing what we're doing now (i.e. quarantine, making businesses suffer, letting the stock mark tank) to save the old

Letting is just run the course would mean...…. nobody really knows...… this is a new thing, specifically. Thinning the herd could be seen in some positive light, but hey, we're not really that crazy about good management.

The economy would not "continue as usual" because people's behaviors and priorities would still change, even if not directed by top-down management.

being human means caring, and trying to do stuff to make things better. It includes loving babies, teenagers, old folks, the disabled.... even deplorables. My worst criticism of some political activist types with brave new world visions is that they lose a part of their humanity in their zealotry for some ideal.

people have to matter more than ideologies.... or economies.

 

[babe]

Yeah they're a relatively new business made it through that difficult first 12 months, everything trending up, now this.

you're right. But if we live, we get to try again.

 

[Miggs]

Probably too early to ask, especially on this forum, but from a purely economic point of view, what is worse:
1. Letting 1.5 million to 6.5 million old people (and at risk people) die and letting the economy continue as usual
2. Doing what we're doing now (i.e. quarantine, making businesses suffer, letting the stock mark tank) to save the old

2 definitely.

 

[Red]

After considering the British study, which is influencing both the British and American governments, and the summary of that study published by the Post today( I posted this in the original coronavirus thread), I changed from 8 to 9, and maybe I'll recognize a 10 eventually...

 

[Miggs]

I really wish I had bought more fresh fruit and frozen it.

 

[fishonjazz]

Probably too early to ask, especially on this forum, but from a purely economic point of view, what is worse:
1. Letting 1.5 million to 6.5 million old people (and at risk people) die and letting the economy continue as usual
2. Doing what we're doing now (i.e. quarantine, making businesses suffer, letting the stock mark tank) to save the old

Well I'm not even seeing how number 2 saves the old anyways......

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[Miggs]

What percentage of those with it are 70 and older?

 

[infection]

What percentage of those with it are 70 and older?

Whatever the data is on that (if anything is published yet) will be highly skewed by the fact that they’re much more likely to be tested.

 

[Jack Strop]

I'm high risk: type-2 diabetes. So it's been nice knowing you all. Too bad the Jazz couldn't win one in my lifetime..