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How to restart the economy

Discussion in 'Coronavirus Pandemic Discussions' started by ronv, Apr 5, 2020.

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  1. ronv

    ronv Well-Known Member

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    With a little luck we should see the numbers start to go down in a few weeks.
    Then what?
    It's pretty clear that we will need to play whack a mole with the virus for several months before we get a vaccine.
    I wonder if someone is working on a plan for detailed tracking and quarantine.
    It's going to tale a lot of testing and a lot of detectives to track the hot spots and send someone to put the fires out.
    Huge numbers of antibody tests and a plan to get people to take them would also be in order.
    What else can we do to speed it up without just having to start over?
     
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    Quasar44 Banned

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    The economy will do that itself
     
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    ronv Well-Known Member

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    That's what I'm afraid of. :)
     
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    Build a dozen of Hoover Dams. :)

    It is not to be taken literally, of course. It could be "green" projects, it could be projects to reform the suburbs and install sidewalks, etc.

     
    Canell, Apr 6, 2020
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    Meta777 Moderator Staff Member

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    Honestly... we should have been doing stuff like that anyway.
    But better late than never. (See sig)

    -Meta
     
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    You mean physical work?:roflol::roflol::roflol:
    There were 7 million available jobs before the Coronavirus shutdown many of them requiring manual labor. Today’s young Americans are lazy. Hell, it took a world wide pandemic just to get most Americans to wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Do you honestly believe we will have enough of a labor force to build infrastructure?

    This isn’t anything new either. Just chart the demographics of job sites over the past 30 years. What was once a budding $1000/wk career for any young American male has now become a rest home for the old and non English speaking.
     
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