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Your comments about their healthcare are complete nonsense. The United States has the worst quality of healthcare of all first world countries. We rank around number 33 Wich is well behind every country with single payer healthcare. If they had our system the problem would have been 100 times worse because people would be too scared to go to the doctor for fear of the cost!I'm not totally up on Italy but they have not handled it well. My understanding is that the outbreak (like the more deadly one in China) occurred in a densely populated area which made the spread exponential.
They also have a single payer/socialized system. That frequently means a shortage of resources and poor quality of care.
Just a glance at wikipedia's daily update seems to suggest countries with high population densities or having cities with high population densities are doing on the whole much worse.
That was going to be England’s approach. Then the scientists gave Boris the estimates and he said screw that.Letting young healthy people contract this virus and continually build immunity in the population as a whole could have the ability to help those that are at risk.
Herd immunity - Wikipedia
While it goes against “flattening the curve” it could still be just as effective. There will be shock at first with the numbers infected and killed but the death toll has the potential to be comparable if not better than social distancing, just over a shorter timeline. Rip the bandaid off all at once.
Thoughts?
I'm going to be a letter writing machine if companies get bailed out without wiping out their shareholders first.Here’s my pondering today...
Why are we bailing out businesses without first having their executives forfeit remaining annual salaries back into the business along with some % of shareholder dividend payouts based on holdings? If those exec types haven’t the acumen to save any of their multi million monthly paychecks to personally survive to the end of the year why are they in charge of huge businesses?
Yes, your business income has reduced but you also just cut operating expenses via layoffs, groundings, dockings and physical closures, etc. Red on your books now is going to offset income at tax time next year and if you’ve been operating in the red as a standard m/o why does your dumbass still have a ginormous salaried job?
I’m pretty sure you can already borrow from your 401k without penalty if you pay it back within 5 years.
That was going to be England’s approach. Then the scientists gave Boris the estimates and he said screw that.
There is something to that thought process. The Spanish Flu was far worse on round 2. God help us that this isn’t the case with this mfer.I think the UK thought (and maybe continues to think) that it'll be worse in the fall, so it was better to have a good portion of the population with the immunity already. But having the deaths of a few hundred thousand rightly didn't sit well with Boris.
These are the types being bailed out. There was no planning like regular citizens had to do it was just the belief that the good times never endHere’s my pondering today...
Why are we bailing out businesses without first having their executives forfeit remaining annual salaries back into the business along with some % of shareholder dividend payouts based on holdings? If those exec types haven’t the acumen to save any of their multi million monthly paychecks to personally survive to the end of the year why are they in charge of huge businesses?
Yes, your business income has reduced but you also just cut operating expenses via layoffs, groundings, dockings and physical closures, etc. Red on your books now is going to offset income at tax time next year and if you’ve been operating in the red as a standard m/o why does your dumbass still have a ginormous salaried job?
In 2014, having reduced competition through mergers and raised billions of dollars in new baggage-fee revenue, American began reaching stunning levels of financial success. In 2015, it posted a $7.6 billion profit — compared, for example, to profits of about $500 million in 2007 and less than $250 million in 2006. It would continue to earn billions in profit annually for the rest of the decade. “I don’t think we’re ever going to lose money again,” the company’s chief executive, Doug Parker, said in 2017.
Interesting. I have to wonder if social distancing drags this out longer and has greater economic impact with comparable infected and death tolls to herd immunity.
Some truth here but we dont need social medicine to fix our problems imo. Our out of control greed and red tape caused by insurance companies and other interests fighting over pieces of the pie could be mitigated legislatively if we had elected officials with priciples. JMOYour comments about their healthcare are complete nonsense. The United States has the worst quality of healthcare of all first world countries. We rank around number 33 Wich is well behind every country with single payer healthcare. If they had our system the problem would have been 100 times worse because people would be too scared to go to the doctor for fear of the cost!
These are the types being bailed out. There was no planning like regular citizens had to do it was just the belief that the good times never end
Have they even been able to definitively determine that immunity comes with recovery?
There were questions coming out of China questioning that immunity, but that could possibly be attributed to false test results showing as reinfections when they were actually still shedding the original infection as it appears to take a while to totally clear this virus.