StrangeSox

There's no way these businesses can survive on 50% capacity anyway, but now they'll be back to having full or nearly full overhead costs. All of a sudden, if they're remaining closed, well, that was their individual choice! Don't come asking for help, you could open if you want to. Same for employees. Tennessee on a similar path

IMO Trump should get the Nobel Prize for Journalism for his idea of injecting Lysol after they take it back from the fake news!

FWIW there's a "bleach can cure X!" movement out there already https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/danger-dont-drink-miracle-mineral-solution-or-similar-products

Imo Trump should offer himself up as a test subject for all these miracle cures he keeps pushing. Just have him inject Lysol straight into his lungs in the briefing today, yolo

Real "heck of a job, brownie" vibes on this one

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-live-coverage.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-652aa9c3 Coronavirus Live Updates: Doctor Says He Was Removed From Federal Post After Questioning Hydroxychloroquine Treatment

We can "borrow from future generations" to bail out private for profit companies and hand out tens of billions in tax breaks to real estate developers, but we couldn't possibly pay for teachers or paramedics or public health workers. He is fine with widespread economic suffering for years to come so long as the rich don't have to pay a penny more in taxes.

If we force heavy austerity measures on state and local governments by not having the federal government help them out, we are guaranteeing that the economic damage will last for years longer. edit: they want us to suffer

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/wisconsin-legislature-sues-to-reopen-state-coronavirus/index.html?utm_content=2020-04-22T14%3A35%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image

Hopefully this sort of support for governors doing the right thing over what is in reality a very small number of protesters with money/media backing holds It'll be at least somewhat contingent on the federal government stepping up and doing everything possible to ease the economic suffering, though. edit: some Michigan-specific numbers

Matches what the expert on WGN was saying this morning

Hmm

A big part of why that ihme model is so ridiculous is that they made a symmetrical curve fit when in reality what most other countries are seeing is that you get a quick ramp up to a peak and then a *long* linear decline.

We're going to see a lot of states opening back up prematurely, which will force people to choose between going back to work in what they (correctly) feel are unsafe and potentially dangerous conditions, or having to quite their job. Because they'll have chosen to quit, they won't be eligible for unemployment. I wonder how much this is driving some of the state-level thinking. And the people who will suffer most from this are going to be lower-income people in service sector jobs where they can't possibly socially distance if they're at work. We've already seen disproportionate impacts, and this will only make it worse.

Plague...plague never changes

Dr. Robert Murphy, the infectious disease expert WGN has on regularly to answer questions, predicts Illinois will be able to open back up around May 25th based on a number of models. This does assume some amount is testing being ramped up. He was... skeptical about various southern states' plans to reopen this week or next.

Not just for them but for everyone where infected Tennesseans may travel. My biggest project for work for the next two years is there lol @ me

Fox News will play it up as will other conservative outlets. Mainstream media amplifying it as a real 'thing' will only make matters worse. More on how this is really the work of a small number of conservative political activists rather than economically anxious people just worried about their rent coming due at the end of the month. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/conservative-activist-family-behind-grassroots-anti-quarantine-facebook-events-n1188021 the libs will definitely be owned either way, though.

Something to keep in mind about those protests is that they're getting enormous media coverage for gatherings that are at most a few dozen people each. These are not, at least yet, a mass movement. Media covering and portraying them like they are will help turn the current heavily-pro-distancing public opinion. These are deeply political protests organized by long-time operatives who are getting way more media attention than they deserve.

It's not just the immunocompromised, either. It's all the frontline workers in the medical sector, both doctors/nurses and support staff. Between friends and close family, I've got 5 nurses or medical technicians who are going into hospitals every day right now. The company I work for provides frontline non-medical staff for a number of hospitals in this country and others. In our biweekly all-company calls, our CEO has started to read off the names and biographies of employees who have died from COVID. If the government does the right thing and helps people through a tight lockdown, the risk of "doing too much" is significant but surmountable. The risk of doing too little and treating this as no big deal at all, of convincing yourself that 50-100M Americans already had the disease by mid-March, and being wrong is millions dead and a devastated economy anyway.