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We finally evacuated all our students from center on Saturday. One class was three days from graduating. Because they had passed everything, we had graduation in their classroom on Friday night and got them out of here.

We’re going to essentially full-time telework after we get things squared away Monday. No idea when students will come back.

Bananas
 
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AV_12 said:
Shelter in place, but then they list so many places and businesses that can stay open ha. List is crazy
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California and Illinois did the same thing. I work in the cell phone industry and apparently our stores are essential in California which...i guess lol
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I know there are a few of you guys that are probably a little more “big picture” financially savvy than me, so I’ll ask this...Are these draconian measures we’re taking to keep the death count down (of a largely already at risk subset of the population) worth the long term devastation we’re doing to our economic system?

The statistics of how little most Americans have set aside for a rainy day are beyond sobering. Sooooo many people have built a house of cards by living beyond their means that even a couple weeks out of work can put them in a hole they might never be able to dig out of. If we’re shut down into the summer, or longer, like some are predicting, I can’t even imagine how bad some people will be hurting. I know a $1200 check from Uncle Sam isn’t going to solve it.
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Seems like we’d be screwed either way, but ideally we would have had enough tests in our communities before it got to this point. South Korea has proven the only way to beat this thing is to test as many people as possible and isolate them once they’ve tested positive. We are still currently doing neither.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Seems like we’d be screwed either way, but ideally we would have had enough tests in our communities before it got to this point. South Korea has proven the only way to beat this thing is to test as many people as possible and isolate them once they’ve tested positive. We are still currently doing neither.
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If only it was that easy for us. Mass testing is a lot easier in places like South Korea compared to the United States. Think of it this way, SK is about the size of Indiana.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
If only it was that easy for us. Mass testing is a lot easier in places like South Korea compared to the United States. Think of it this way, SK is about the size of Indiana.
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For sure. But theoretically we would’ve had more money to throw towards it as well. We certainly weren’t the only country guilty of this, but we did not take it seriously enough when we could have mitigated it.

To my mind, what’s more worrisome now is two weeks in we still can’t test everyone who needs a test, and in some spots (Tennessee being one) we’re allowing those who have tested positive to self isolate because our hospitals aren’t prepared for the influx of new patients.

Whether you’re a staunch liberal or conservative we’ve all agree that our healthcare system is pretty f’d up. This thing has just exposed it for what it’s worth.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
If only it was that easy for us. Mass testing is a lot easier in places like South Korea compared to the United States. Think of it this way, SK is about the size of Indiana.
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I would buy that if we hadn’t known about this for 2 months or so. Maybe we still wouldn’t have enough tests or medical supplies but this is ridiculous man
 
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AV_12 said:
I would buy that if we hadn’t known about this for 2 months or so. Maybe we still wouldn’t have enough tests or medical supplies but this is ridiculous man
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A large part of the problem with our medical supplies is they are made half a world away. We need our supply chains here. Hopefully, we will stop being so dependent on other countries for our resources. Testing wouldn’t be as paramount if people would self quarantine, but as I said yesterday people are stupid. If anything, we should’ve shut things down faster, and that’s on all branches of our government. But it’s still too early to call.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
For sure. But theoretically we would’ve had more money to throw towards it as well. We certainly weren’t the only country guilty of this, but we did not take it seriously enough when we could have mitigated it.

To my mind, what’s more worrisome now is two weeks in we still can’t test everyone who needs a test, and in some spots (Tennessee being one) we’re allowing those who have tested positive to self isolate because our hospitals aren’t prepared for the influx of new patients.

Whether you’re a staunch liberal or conservative we’ve all agree that our healthcare system is pretty f’d up. This thing has just exposed it for what it’s worth.
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Italy is ranked as having the 2nd best healthcare system in the world.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
Right. I guess my real question for anyone who really understands economics on a bigger scale is, where do we go a month from now if we find ourselves in a situation where millions, or tens of millions of people aren’t able to make their mortgage payments because the government has literally outlawed almost everyone who doesn’t have an office job that can done remotely from working?

Obviously the banks can and do survive if a small percentage of people don’t pay, but what if 30%, or maybe more, can’t? I honestly don’t understand the whole system enough to know what happens in a situation like that, and was just curious. Plus when I see stats like “barely half the country has enough in savings to cover an unexpected $500 expense”, it just seems like things could get real bad in a hurry for a lot of people.
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I think the circle of medical and economic experts has zero overlap and at the end of the day you probably have to side with keeping people alive and trying to avoid a major health catastrophe with a lot of unknowns. Economy has always recovered.

Not saying it’s right or wrong but it’s where we are, IMO.
 
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Honestly there is so much we all need to learn from this. Every governing body of the world and every human.

Just speaking in terms of us and our country, we need contingencies in place that prepare for this on every single level. We need our corporations to have contingencies in place, our states, cities, and counties. We need factories packed with back up medicinal supplies. Designated overflow hospitals etc. And we all need to prepare our homes for this.

And the Chinese need to stop eating weird s hit. (Goodness gracious, do not go down that rabbit hole, it’s pretty dark).
 
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Florida Stanley said:
Seems to be a little scuttlebutt about Tennessee getting the shelter in place here pretty soon. May be true, I personally believe so, so wouldn’t hurt to make plans accordingly.

Also was just outside with the dog and witnessed an incredible amount of what I assume to be military aircraft. There was a caravan of at least 30, probably many, many more of airplanes flying really high in a single file line. About maybe a mile apart. Was pretty eerie, not gonna lie. Really strange times.
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Last time 30 military aircraft flew together was probably WWII, so I doubt it
 
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