June

We can't stayed shut down forever. Life must go on

I picked fall 2020, but I have some hope that businesses might get creative much earlier. The local pet store near my neighborhood only allows two customers in at a time. An employee opens the door for you and directs you to a box to stand in. They ask you what you want and go get the items for you. They ring you up and then step away. You then step up and pay with your card without touching anything. When you leave they open the door for you. I'm sure this isn't perfect, but I've got to believe it vastly lowers risk.

My company is still operational. We do 100% temperature checks of all employees prior to coming into the factories and we do a short medical questionnaire every day looking for symptoms. We fog the building every night with disinfectant and stagger breaks to make sure employees are never congregated together. Again, not perfect, but if all companies were doing these types of things it might lower R0 enough to flatten the curve and allow at least some commerce.

Why dont you do some calculations on how viable the pet store is now as a business and how long it will remain in business.......

The new jobless claim should rattle people 6.6 million vs 3.1 estimate. There is a number you statistic boys can chew on.

After April it will be a little clearer , it’s just gonna have to effect everyone some how ie we all know someone who’s had it got it or worse died from it. Only then will we have the self control as a society to truly exercise distance among numbers.

John and I are close friends but we see things through different optics , I think this whole thing is a sh!t sandwich handed to the world by China and that there was no “winning” path.

I think it’s too lethal to simply unleash, I suspect there are far far more dead in China than we know. I don’t have an answer as to what the right course of action should have been, I own a small business that has my whole life wrapped up in it. That business is a sitting duck , if I or an employee catches this we are closed until my staff and I recover and after that all I could do it dig until it recovers or I lose it and everything I own.

Do I think there will be a new normal, oh yeah in fact there better be one. One that leaves us more vigilant against this type of thing and the economic predation of a country like China.