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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Jagdaddy said:
So what's currently "the narrative".
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I know it's rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway. Current narrative: the solution (massive unemployment) is better than the problem (medical capacity). Once the state and local government employees start hitting the unemployment parade, the narrative will mysteriously shift, and shift dramatically. As if you didn't know?
 
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heisman said:
I know it's rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway. Current narrative: the solution (massive unemployment) is better than the problem (medical capacity). Once the state and local government employees start hitting the unemployment parade, the narrative will mysteriously shift, and shift dramatically. As if you didn't know?
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Local employees were slashed by a huge amount here over the weekend. Nothing mysteriously changed. And even if it did, it wouldn't help jumpstart the economy for more than a few weeks before everything shut down once again due to rampant spread and employers realizing they can't run a business with 50% of staff sick and spreading it.

EDIT: Also, this isn't the narrative.

Current narrative: the solution (massive unemployment) is better than the problem (medical capacity).
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The narrative is: the solution (massive unemployment/lockdowns) is better than the problem (unchecked spread, mass death, lack of medical capacity, and longer-term economic effects due to long period of sickness). Medical capacity doesn't affect the economy as much as the ease of spread that effects both employees and employers.
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
I'm still waiting to hear an explanation of how businesses are going to manage workers and stay open when millions more start getting sick due to lack of mitigation.

Businesses will see a bump for a few weeks, and when everyone else start getting sick and then have to close again due to lack of workers and lack of revenue coming in, it'll be the exact same story once again. Only then it will take much longer for everything to peak and level out.
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You start finding more intelligent mitigation strategies while business are open to at least some sort of former capacity.

Basic PPE protocols that anyone can follow will work.

Masks (don't have to be medical grade), handwashing, face contact, 6 ft radius....all of these things will help slow down the spread.

The idea that there is no alternative to lockdown, that it's all or nothing is false.
 
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buckeyebri said:
Even in “lockdown” people are out going to the grocery store, walking, running, getting beer and food to go. What I still see here is people just not adhering to the social distancing protocols. There’s still this it won’t happen to me mentality.
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You forgot about all the soccer and lacrosse practices with hundreds of kids, parents, and coaches here in suburban Chicago.
 
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