(06-23-2020 01:27 AM)mrbig Wrote:  

(06-22-2020 05:23 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  So do tell -- how the fk do you plan for shutting people into their homes and literally shutting down the economy?

It is mind boggling that you think that is an anywhere near 'plannable' event for anything less than a twenty year time scale. Yet here you are apparently promulgating that it is.

I suggest you return to the real world for your next iteration at this version of 'It's Trump's fault, all of it'. That one doesnt meet the laugh test.

I mean, both of the prior USA presidents expressed extreme concern for exactly this sort of pandemic. H1N1 and ebola were essentially dry-runs that should have helped the USA gets is $h!t together on responding to a pandemic. I do think it is plannable and I do think we should be planning for the next iteration because there will be something else in the next 20 years (or less) and it could be worse. Its like a hurricane. It doesn't always hit New Orleans, but eventually another one will hit New Orleans so we better make damn sure the levees and pumps are ready beforehand.

Got it. Since the country got locked down, and the economy shut down, the potential for both of those is easily plannable. What type of fing drugs are you on?

Quote:Its like a hurricane

Uhh...... no. Its not. Its really only like.... well..... the entire fing economy of world dropping by 30% nearly instantaneously. There really is no corollary. Nor has there ever been one, not even close to this scope.

Simple test. Name one singular event that affected the entire world economy, and the entire US economy with *anything* near the breadth and depth of the worldwide lockdowns and shutdowns.

Criminy, I'll make it easier. Name any one singular event that has had, say, 15% of the global impact of this. I can name one in the entire fing scope of Western civilization --- the Black Death. Somehow I dont think there is much parallel to learn from that re: economic response to a fing global pandemic.

I mean, also as an example, this is such an amazingly extreme event that Hollywood made movies about this. Think about that.

Again, what type of fing drugs are you on? That is, besides the 'Trump is entirely at fault' stuff you mainline.....