COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The first tentative steps in lifting the economically crippling coronavirus restrictions in Europe and China are running into resistance, with shoppers and other customers staying away from the reopened businesses and workers afraid the newly restored freedoms could put their health at risk.
Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can really see the sky?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
This won’t be a problem here. Trump can order people to shop.
He can even order them to buy Trump-branded merchandise. Remember he has “absolute authority”
We are told this is a war. In 1944, the US produced almost 100,000 airplanes. That’s about 1 every 5 minutes. Those are airplanes, great big things with thousands of parts. Now we are told we can’t make enough tests to even test 1% of the population. Test kits-a swab, some buffers, a couple of enzymes and a machine to run the reactions.
Back then, housewives, teachers, salespeople were told, go make tanks and planes and they did. Others were told to pick up a rifle and go to war and they did. So don’t tell me out of work baristas, bartenders, personal trainers, waitpersons and so on can’t be trained to make masks or gowns or whatever is needed. That’s an economy, too-producing things that people need, instead of over-priced coffee drinks (which you can still get to take out). It just takes leadership, which the US certainly lacks and many other countries aren’t exactly showing the way either…
And according to recent studies COVID-19 droplets can spread farther than 6’, even more with a good wind blowing.
I have to admit I can only conclude that shoppers and workers have more sense than anyone in this administration. Until this disease is much better understood, testing and tracing is robust and a vaccine is available and distributed, we should all expect some degree of caution from everyone will be part fo the new normal.
There are no masks, gloves or sanitizers available so that people can protect themselves from a potentially fatal infection when they go to the stores. Add in the people who still are running around unmasked and unconcerned with passing around the virus, and the whole experience of going in a store becomes a mission to get only the necessary items, check the empty sanitizer shelves again, and get the hell out.
When Punkin Head took his revenge on President Obama and demolished the pandemic preparations he inherited from several administrations, he practically invited the pandemic to wash over the U.S. And so he caused the nation’s economy to contract. The Trump plague is by no means over, and all indications are that he will make it worse by politically weaponizing federal response. Trump’s Ego 1 - Nation’s Health 0.
He just can’t dig what’s happening. Killing the USPS to keep people from voting is guaranteed to destroy the flow of commerce when companies can’t send bills and people can’t send back their checks.
Trump’s ego 1 - Golden Goose 0.
Well, he’s certainly reached the logical end stage of his evolution as a genius business guy—he’s giving away Trump-branded money.
Total powers, baby. Total powers.
Damn, you are clueless, radicalcentrists. By 1944, the US had been on a wartime footing for almost 5 years. FDR was able to finally browbeat Congress into ramping up military production by 1940.
We also had a manufacturing base in this country in 1944. We shipped that off to points south and east courtesy of NAFTA. All of the textile mills around where I live that could have been making masks and gowns were shuttered, and the equipment shipped off or sold by 2000.
Who is going to pay for the training? Companies stopped doing that 20 to 30 years ago.
There are numerous companies that have 3d printers and are hard at work making PPE. Companies are retooling, as best they can, but there aren’t actually any equipment fairies that will magically drop the equipment in place. There are no Teaching fairies that will show up and magically train a workforce.
The government just spent over $ 2 trillion and will probably spend at least that much more. We’re going to give people extended UIC, if they can manage to file an application, which will produce exactly zero goods that could save lives. I’d much rather pay some of those people to learn to produce masks, gowns, etc.
WHO is going to train them?
WHAT equipment are they going to make stuff with?
You are truly clueless…
People have heard enough and understand the high risk of a “rebound effect” that occurs when preventive steps are shut down too early.
That “spontaneous demonstration” in MI shows how the trumpistas are weaponizing the shut down. I don’t want to even think about what might happen if this effort is successful.
It is reckless at a minimum.
Yes, the answer depends on choice of items to be produced and scale of production.
Trump’s gaggle of CEOs haven’t already stepped up?
Give those RWNJs 14 days - just 2 weeks - then see how they feel about social distancing. This is Darwin at work, right before our eyes. Sure, others not stoopid enough to gather in large groups will be infected, too. That’s a high price to pay for culling the feeble minded from the rest of the herd. But it appears there’s no stopping them from following Dear Leader. And it’s happening on a macro level. Red state governors resisting lock-downs and eager to “open the economy”. We’re going to see wave after wave of hot spots and peaks concentrated and spreading out from those states. This might finally get through to that 40% who still think trump is doing a good job.
The only thing that collection of grifters have stepped up to is handouts.
Yea, verily and it’s recklessness my wife and I have to take personally. We’re relatively healthy for our age. We have the health of persons maybe 20 yrs our junior.
Nevertheless, we’re in a high mortality age group. And given our relative good health, mind and body, we’re not quite reconciled with the Big Chill.
I see it as, say, being in a room with others and someone walks in with a live grenade.
He says, “Oh, don’t worry, I haven’t pulled the pin”. Small comfort.
Check out that airhead governor in SD.
Oh, you’re on to something. Check out SD. That airhead governor has refused shutdowns. She’s letting it “wash over” the state. The workers at that meat plant have infected 10(?) other businesses in Sioux Falls. So far, 1200 cases and 6 deaths. Population is less than 900,000. That gov has blood on her hands and she’s too dumb to know it. What? Me worry?