NPR Poll: Financial Pain From Coronavirus Pandemic 'Much, Much Worse' Than Expected

[steelepulse]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/09/909669760/npr-poll-financial-pain-from-coronavirus-pandemic-much-much-worse-than-expected?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=business

 

"Blendon says the Harvard team expected to find substantial economic damage because of the unprecedented shutdown of the economy, "but this is much, much, much worse than I would've predicted."

 

No surprise here.  The whole world shut down over something that has an ifr of between .26-.65 depends on which study you look at.  Iceland just came out with their stats that showed .3% ifr and Iceland did a lot of testing.  If you're susceptible, by all means isolate yourself, but to isolate and cut off the whole world was crazy and still is crazy.

 

Every situation in life needs to take some sort of analysis of consequences upon taking such an action.  We went from "flattening the curve", to now "the world won't get back to normal until we get a vaccine".  Crazy.  Apparently the geniuses that decided they wanted to lockdown the world didn't think about economics, mental health, cancer patients and other unhealthy people that needed treatment, that now have died since they couldn't get treatment.

 

 

[forehandplus]

Not surprising given the threadbare state of the social safety net in the USA. Citizens in Northern Europe fared much better.  But as long as legislators in the USA keep gifting the rich and neglecting the rest, this state of affairs will continue.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/12/2020 at 2:47 PM, steelepulse said:

Blendon says the Harvard team expected to find substantial economic damage because of the unprecedented shutdown of the economy, "but this is much, much, much worse than I would've predicted."

Tell us something any thinking person didn't know.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/12/2020 at 3:53 PM, forehandplus said:

Not surprising given the threadbare state of the social safety net in the USA. Citizens in Northern Europe fared much better.  But as long as legislators in the USA keep gifting the rich and neglecting the rest, this state of affairs will continue.

America is not a socialist country. Either make it so or emigrate to Europe.