Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Folks will be homeless because their ability to pay mortgages/rent is being destroyed.
Folks will be homeless because their ability to pay mortgages/rent is being destroyed.
Like i said earlier, the number of US deaths DIRECTLY related to covid is WAAAY less than the numbers that the 'scare me-dia" puts out every day.
Before testing got going in any numbers a LOT of deaths were listed as covid-related when in fact the true nature was completely unknown. How many died BEFORE testing started?? CDC guidelines meant nothing then. And hospital did/do get THREE times the $$ for a covid patient. You trust a magazine and the CDC. Call me skeptical of both. This goes in NPR, i apologize to all. I'm out.........................That's the kind of statement put out by political organizations and conservative bloggers as propaganda and feeds well into the conspiracy theories some people seem to prefer over science when facts don't seem very appealing.
Here's an article by Scientific American. The CDC also has strict guidelines on cause of death. I'm not putting this out there to argue with you, but I feel compelled to present another opinion because some people may take your statement as fact when it's not.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-covid-19-deaths-are-counted1/
You won't take the USA #s as legit, but you are going to believe the others'?
And about the Fed mandating anything...again, they are trying t deal with this mainly from a State level. You bet your short-sighted patootie a Federal response is an option that has not yet been called upon.
So how is that dealing with it on a state level working out? Its clear that you don't support "short-sighted'' Federal responses like the ones that come from FEMA, FDA, EPA, USDA or the NATIONAL GUARD, ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES??
As far as believing the numbers, I don't know what the numbers are and neither do you, we are all going by whats reported and if the numbers in other countries are reported by the same sources that report them here, that's all we got to work with.
Interesting. got a link to your source??# of US deaths by population for 1st half of 2020 less # of US deaths by population for 1st half of 2019 = Truth.
Here's one that discusses concept:
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
There are others.
How is your place.
Are you going to be able to make it through?
The market share for Amazon Walmart ECT..is booming.There might not be any aspect of our world society that isnt affected by this.
The world is a complex web of interdependent nouns.
The 'little guy' gets 'crushed' because he is not positioned to defend himself as well as some of the 'big guys'.
What we are witnessing is the inverted structure of our economic system and the selfishness of our population.
A business that has been established for 10+ years should NOT be paying rent/lease they should own the property. I suspect as many as 50% of all businesses will not survive this pandemic, neither will many malls.
Similarly, people that have been cooped up for months because of a rampant disease should not automatically go out and meat as many people as possible just to blow off a little steam (and catch what they have been trying to avoid.) If we had a population that was willing to live withing a few simple rules we could be almost fully open every where by this point in time, with the disease in check.
Please. You really believe this is part some master plan????
Folks will be homeless because their ability to pay mortgages/rent is being destroyed.
That's different from your original post. You made it sound like there is some grand evil scheme behind all this. That i don't believe for one second. Are people taking advantage of it??? You bet. Every calamity in history has made somebody rich. Nothing new here.I KNOW that politicians use every crisis to their advantage as does big money.
Many countries did well without shutting down as we have. A targeted means of protecting older Americans would have sufficed. Picking and choosing winners and losers by closing done and opening others has led to tragic results.
I expect many pool halls will be closed. Especially high rent areas. If this closure continues for 5 to 7 more months...