And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
Forum Discussion
PA12DRVR wrote:
"Those examining one side without regard to the other are having a hard time understanding those who approach from the opposite direction."
Agree with that. My view is that most folks supporting a continuing lock down are not considering (certainly in my view not giving due weight to) the economic impacts of that lockdown, particularly when there is limited reporting on what percentage of COVID-19 infected people (not just "tested") are recovering from the disease.
As noted above, we didn't create this pandemic. The assertion that there is no data to support an economic impact can be debated at some length (record unemployment numbers would be one item of data) but even prior to initiating that debate, it would have to be acknowledged that we have never, ever (not in 1929, not in 2001, not in 2008, etc) had a financial situation wherein, by government fiat, the two-prong situation was imposed 1) the economy was shut down;and 2) money was printed to pay the impacts of that imposed shutdown. Given the unique and novel nature of the economic approach, there is no rational basis to assume that "this will all pass" or that eventually "the dust will settle".
Hopefully it passes, hopefully the dust settles, hopefully the percentage of our workforce forced out of a job gets some money to put food on the table, but blithely assuming that "this too shall pass" or that any and all economic impact need not be considered and evaluated, is misguided, in my view.
Taking snippets of posts without the entire content dilutes the point of the original post. I haven't seen anyone on here say there wasn't going to be any economic impact. The point was - balking at the claim that the economy will be ruined or our kids and grandkids. No data to support that and sensible logic tells us that won't actually happen. The point of those claiming that we are self ruining the economy for baseless paranoia, is in itself baseless paranoia. It's a pretty heavy theme in this thread by a select few, that there is no hard data to support mandated closures and even if there were, the ruination of our economy isn't worth the lives saved. I strongly disagree with that vein of thought. Will there be economic impact?, you bet. Are we ruining the economy for our children and grandchildren?, no. I am open to someone with the evidence to change my mind.
