Is anyone sick or know anyone
Bullshit. If we don’t maintain vigilance to keep this thing from spreading, the disease will be far worse than the containment.
We have no immunity, no vaccine and no proven treatment. We have to slow this down or we will all pay a severe price.
I get that it is causing financial ruin for some, but death is not a reasonable alternative. We are being forced to choose between the lesser of two shitty alternatives. Yes, it sucks. But it’s how it is.
This isn’t a made-up thing. It is as real as it gets and as serious as a heart attack. We either hold it back or millions will die.
Is saving a business more imortant than that?
Bullshit?
I understand you work in the medical field, you have a bias toward the info you have.
But you need to look past that.
My niece, and the possibility of her losing something she worked hard for, does hit close to my home, but it's just a symptom of a larger problem.
So lets put this into another perspective.
You go to church? If so, then you know Easter is coming up. If your wife is anything like mine, a new Easter outfit with shoes and accessories would have been bought. My wife would have made sure the kids (grand kids in my case) were in new outfits as well. Me, she'd bought a tie and a shirt and insisted that my suit, at the very least, went to the dry cleaners.
Then she'd make sure all the kids (adults included) would have an Easter basket as well.
My wife's idea of an Easter basket is a sight to see.
My wife is Catholic (I'm not, but I'm tolerated) so that means every Friday, we attend a fish fry, somewhere.
Between Easter and Mothers day, my wife generally decides that it's time to get the flowers bought and the yard in shape.
While I'm not a huge fan, I do root for my school during March Madness. They've been known to pull off an upset or two over the years. I don't drink, but I'm not above going to a wing joint and hanging out with my friends and watching a couple of games.
My grand daughter lives with me, she's 14 and has been hinting around that she wants new summer clothes.
I told myself that this year, no trips out of the U.S. for the University, my wife and I have a significant anniversary this year. We were planning a trip together.
That would put us thru at least Mothers Day.
Lets look at just that damage.
The clothes my wife would have bought for Easter, won't be bought. The retailers didn't count on that, they ordered the product to have on hand to sell. They either paid or owe a manufacturer for that product.
My blue suit is still in its garment bag, it won't see the dry cleaner for some time now.
The Easter baskets are probably not going to be as nice this year. She's bought some candy, but honestly, she's bad about buying candy, eating it and then replacing it for the baskets. Yeah, my wife has a sweet tooth. But not this year, no extras are getting bought.
Looks like we aren't going to anymore fish fry's now. The different places we go to have bought product to sell. It won't get sold now. They also paid or owe a distributor or a merchant, who did the same.
Looks like we won't be doing much to the yard either now. I know for a fact our finances have taken at least a $32K hit, and the DJ lost another 700 points today.
I wanted to replace my riding mower with a zero turn. Not happening this year, maybe next if we recover. But, how many mowers were built with the anticipation of being sold? Prior to this virus, I would have guessed quite a few with the economy we've been having.
The flowers my wife generally drops small fortune on, I'm sure that'll be scaled back.
March Madness, well that's shot to hell. I don't have the impact that others have, but how much beer and food is sold during this? 2019 estimates were
$13.3 Billion in the service industry alone. How much money is gambled?
$8.5 Billion on the NCAA Tournament alone. Those are the NCAA's figures. Those figures do not include the income to the school or programs involved. That does not include advertising revenue or trademark merchandising.
My grand daughter, she'll get new clothes, but mostly because she's out growing what she has at an unreal rate. But for the same reason I'm not getting a zero turn mower, she won't shopping at American Eagle, Pink or the other high end stores she seems to come to like.
She won't go naked, but she'll have a tough time understanding.
The trip the wife wanted to take, well that's completely out the window now. That trip involved a cruise ship and beach time.
Now, I don't want to assign a dollar figure to the things that just my family aren't going to do this year, but give it some thought.
Thought about it?
Now, take that figure and multiply that by millions.
That's just a middle class family of three. Imagine what a larger, or more wealthy family would have done.
This country is bleeding BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of dollars each day over this.
We are a capitalist society, we're not programed for socialism or socialist policy. The country isn't either, obviously.
Will people die? Oh yeah.
But, how many people were going to die from heart attacks? By your own admission, they're pretty serious. How many are going to not seek out medical attention due to the virus scare and die from that?
How many are going to die from cancer? From lung disease? From liver disease? From HIV/AIDS? From other infectious disease? From the Flu?
What is an acceptable number of dead from suicide after being isolated?
These numbers will not be reported because there is no sensationalism or ratings in that.
In fact, the Dept of Labor has asked the individual states to NOT release unemployment figures from all of this.
Why?
That information would have an even more severe impact on the economy.
Is this virus to be taken seriously?
Yes, yes it absolutely should.
But so should the thought of starving, and the millions who would die from that.
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
― Adolf Hitler
