Coronavirus Endgame

[FlyerInHi]

Joec, makes perfect sense for your relatives.

But, just like the 2008 Great Recession, it’s the people who give up who determine real estate values for everyone else. In other words, in a recession, the economic “losers” determine the value of your house. We don’t yet know how many losers there will be, but there will be enough to negatively impact real estate.

[FlyerInHi]

Debra Birx’s latest interview. Makes me feel really confident of our pandemic response….

[spdrun]

FiH, everyone is slowly moving towards herd immunity and seeing a vaccine as a backup plan. Cuomo just today discussed keeping the R-number of COVID between 0.8 and 1.2, which implies control vs total suppression.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=spdrun]FiH, everyone is slowly moving towards herd immunity and seeing a vaccine as a backup plan. Cuomo just today discussed keeping the R-number of COVID between 0.8 and 1.2, which implies control vs total suppression.[/quote]

I’m more than a little pissed off about that, as young healthy people should be. We are givin’ up a lot of wealth, and having our freedom infringed upon, only to catch Covid eventually. The cost benefit spreadsheet should have been presented!

[FlyerInHi]

In order to move to medium term and long term end game, we must have the short term dealt with.
However, we can’t even test all senators. What kind of country is this?

Capitol physician says Senate lacks capacity to test all senators
The Senate returns Monday amid mounting anxiety from lawmakers that the coronavirus could spread quickly through the chamber.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/30/capitol-physician-senators-coronavirus-testing-226980

[spdrun]

Who cares about the Senators … how about testing the interns and staffers? We can live without figureheads, but please keep the policy wonks alive.

[outtamojo]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=spdrun]FiH, everyone is slowly moving towards herd immunity and seeing a vaccine as a backup plan. Cuomo just today discussed keeping the R-number of COVID between 0.8 and 1.2, which implies control vs total suppression.[/quote]

I’m more than a little pissed off about that, as young healthy people should be. We are givin’ up a lot of wealth, and having our freedom infringed upon, only to catch Covid eventually. The cost benefit spreadsheet should have been presented![/quote]

Actually,during times like these the marginal tend to lose their assets and the wealthier scoop them up and get even wealthier in exchange for a temporary moratorium on their freedom.

[FlyerInHi]

Outamojo, I was talking about aggregate wealth. But great point. That’s because the bailouts are mostly targeted at the top.
Lacking redistributive policies, it’s a feature of capitalism that wealth accumulates generations after generations. Thomas Piketty proved it in his book Capital in the 21st Century.

Steven Perlstein has a recent article on that.

Socialism for investors, capitalism for everyone else
With the Federal Reserve backstopping risky corporate debt, the U.S. economy has made itself thoroughly addicted to cheap credit and government rescues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/30/socialism-investors-capitalism-everyone-else/

[teaboy]

I guess any endgame should start with a definition of what constitutes an “end.”
Tb

“How Pandemics End”

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=teaboy]I guess any endgame should start with a definition of what constitutes an “end.”
Tb

“How Pandemics End”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/health/coronavirus-plague-pandemic-history.html%5B/quote%5D

Yes, interesting.

The endgame is is we just get used to lots of death

The insanity over the Benghazi desths… the tragedy of 3000 at world trade center.

The ho hum, life goes on over 1 million corona deaths.

Deaths are only useful to score points. Otherwise, they may be ignored e.r d

HILLARY LIED
FOUR AMERICANS DIED.

Hahahahahshsha.
It’s definitely comedy at this point.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]

Yes, interesting.

The endgame is is we just get used to lots of death

The insanity over the Benghazi desths… the tragedy of 3000 at world trade center.

The ho hum, life goes on over 1 million corona deaths.

Deaths are only useful to score points. Otherwise, they may be ignored e.r d

HILLARY LIED
FOUR AMERICANS DIED.

Hahahahahshsha.
It’s definitely comedy at this point.[/quote]

Comedy indeed.

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