And Texas Caves In

Lantley wrote:

NJRVer wrote:

rexlion wrote:

time2roll wrote:
US death rate hits a new record today. Not on the back side of the curve yet.

By "death rate," do you mean total number of deaths? Total deaths from Covid-19 will hit a new record every single day, for months to come, simply because if 1 person dies it's a new high in the total deaths (a new record). So that's meaningless, although it sounds impressive at first blush.

The more people that get the disease, the more people will die.

When less people get the disease, there will be less deaths from the disease.

What's so hard to understand about that?

Until we have accurate testing with almost immediate results available to the entire public we cannot restart the economy.
I'm all for restarting the economy ASAP but the restart can't be based on the simple fact that people are broke.
A haphazard restart that allows the virus spread to rekindle itself is foolish.

Meanwhile we have 16 MILLION people unemployed with some of them trying to decide if the should feed their family and be homeless, or have a home but no food.
Pretty easy when you're as snug as a bug in a rug to say keep it shut down.
When you lose the majority of your income the choices become a little more difficult.