The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(05-07-2020, 12:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-07-2020, 10:18 AM)David Horn Wrote: The best estimates -- those offered by real experts -- puts the Fall reemergence in the worse-than-original category.  Are you willing to die for the economy? If not, then assume it will be slammed shut yet again, with many additional avoidable deaths too boot.  If staying open is your best option, then the total number of dead may reach into the millions in the US alone -- and we will be alone in this.

And let's talk about cities and not-cities.  I doubt the residents of the cities will be willing cannon fodder in your economic war.  Since most of the economic activity in the country is driven from the cities, and the residents will not offer to die for you, then your guns are of little use.  Feel free to rally away, and wave those guns.  It may be your last act on earth, because the virus doesn't care.

Can you live without the American economy? Can you live without Social Security, Medicare, pension, your wife's job, food, electricity and everything else that's economically related? Shall we find out? Oh, that's right, you're not a blue city slicker anymore. You're an exurban these days So, you have an unfair advantage over those who will be trapped in blue cities with incompetent leaders who don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves these days.

I fail to see how location has any great impact on any of this.  Urban solutions will be different, but their more robust infrastructure leaves greater room for error. And we've already seen how many jobs in the urban environment merely go indoors with the worker.  Urban work tends to be more service oriented.  

Classic-Xer Wrote:I can live with COVID19 and we've been doing it for a while now. The blue cities can remain in economic shut down for as long as their leaders want and their base feels it needs to at this point. The rest of America isn't going to care and will adjust life without them and their support like it's been doing for years and begin to even further separate itself from blue leadership and the blue cities and blues like yourself and others here. I mean, blue values seem to center on the blues themselves these days.

So, I assume you think you're bulletproof.  That wasn't the case in 1919-20, when the urban part of the Spanish Flu petered out, but the flu marched on into the less populated areas and wreaked havoc there.  True, some areas dodged the bullet entirely, but some cities had little flu as well. Are you a gambler?