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containment only maters if you can find a cure

Posted on: March 12, 2020 at 10:15:07 CT

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is there one, or is this like HIV where you have successful treatments but there are no vaccines

Now delaying spread as much as possible may give you time to find a cure, but if that isn't going to happen, what is the point?

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If you were President or a leader today - meatiger MU - 3/12 09:55:41

Resigning so someone adequately competent could - FIJItiger MU

- 3/12 10:29:08

Steer the virus to black neighborhoods. Duh. Nm - hokie VT - 3/12 10:15:59

you have an unhealthy obsession with skin color (nm) - pickle MU

- 3/12 10:24:07

I wouldn't let this "crisis" go to waste, and I would cut - ummmm MU - 3/12 10:15:38

Where I could I would - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:21:51

Talk with experts, remove barriers regulations delaying work - RHAYWORTH MU - 3/12 10:14:50

In this case I might paraphrase from "talk to experts" - Toger STL - 3/12 10:17:53

fair enough. In general get all of the experts working . - RHAYWORTH MU - 3/12 10:22:20

eliminating government (nm) - ashtray UF - 3/12 10:12:07

Containment, treatment & Cure... - tigerdb MU - 3/12 10:09:24

containment only maters if you can find a cure - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:15:07

if fatality is 1-3%, containment certainly matters. - tigerdb MU - 3/12 10:21:19

because if you slow down infections your hospitals - ashtray UF - 3/12 10:16:19

isn't the current treatment simply time & O2? - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:19:36

Water & TP, by all accounts(nm) - tigerdb MU - 3/12 10:24:36

Depends on what is happening - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:23:13

I’d go with porters and stouts, blonde ales over brown, - pickle MU

- 3/12 10:06:38

Assist in the new vaccine.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 3/12 10:06:06

Testing, testing, testing - Toger STL - 3/12 10:04:10

keeping people employed, keeping people in their homes - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:03:27

how do you do that for 350 million people? (nm) - pickle MU

- 3/12 10:09:23

well, not all of them work, so cut that to 140,000,000 - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:12:26

What does incentiviize mean?(nm) - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:06:27

to provide incentives - tax cuts, not that they need em - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:08:04

How do you ensure - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:09:51

you don't get the breaks unles you kept people employed - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:10:39

What about student loans? (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:03:59

what about them? (nm) - pickle MU

- 3/12 10:08:42

he suggested delaying some payments by individuals - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:09:30

hell, they don't pay em anyway - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:06:54

Lol I pay mine (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:09:39

How has the CV impacted your ability to pay ?(nm) - tigerdb MU - 3/12 10:11:16

It hasn't. But I'm also not an art major with six figure - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:12:18

how the **** does that happen? - tigerinhogtown STL - 3/12 10:17:13

That's not a CV problem... - tigerdb MU - 3/12 10:13:43

Agreed (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:14:12

It must focus on eliminating uncertainties that would cause - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 3/12 10:00:28

government doesn't solve anything - ashtray UF - 3/12 10:14:58

There is a role for government - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 3/12 10:26:00

Mine would focus on the health implications - meatiger MU - 3/12 09:59:06

economic uncertainty and health implications are intertwined - TigerJackSwartz MU

- 3/12 10:02:16

Deal with health impications first - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:04:03

Young people who live paycheck to paycheck aren't going - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:09:20

I would put the CDC experts in charge. - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 09:58:58

No need to nationalize - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:05:51

We are 8 weeks into this. - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:07:26

waiting for what - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:09:00

So raise taxes on business during a collapse - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:00:08

and nationalize manufacturing lol. what a dolt - blake1771 MU - 3/12 10:02:13

It's been done before, temporarily.. (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:03:42

We did it during world war 2 dummy. - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:03:25

You can't make it up - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 3/12 10:01:27

There are trillions in corporate profits sitting offshore - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:04:36

Where are these trillions of dollars at? They aren't - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:05:47

If you're APPL, it would be Ireland - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:07:00

Doesn't answer where this money is.. is it invested in the - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:08:37

Ding!(nm) - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:07:53

I am pretty sure Rabbit was joking - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:03:45

For coronavirus? - Spanky KU - 3/12 09:58:09

What if the sick leave was only temporary and only for - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 09:58:52

RE: What if the sick leave was only temporary and only for - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:00:45

So you just want to collapse the banks where most people - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:04:38

The banks appear to have enough cash - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:06:53

That cash is spoken for - meatiger MU - 3/12 10:15:02

No.. they don't. That is why the Fed is now loaning $175 - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:09:58

The company should do that themselves for their employee - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:00:44

It's clear that employers aren't going to universally do - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:02:30

Imagine the impact on a company that knowingly or - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:08:39

Hourly workers don't get sick pay dummy. - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:10:16

Sure they do.. - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:18:26

Some do. 1/4 of all workers do NOT have paid sick - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:13:17

What percent of workers are self employed/gig workers? - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:22:10

RE: What percent of workers are self employed/gig workers? - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:25:48

and??? - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:29:48

Many will be laid off in all likelihood - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:34:55

Can't fire a sick employee per FMLA - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:53:54

Yeah.. my 17 year old son does not have paid sick - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:15:43

Yes they do. (nm) - TigerMatt STL - 3/12 10:10:56

Definitely not all (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 3/12 10:14:27

RE: Definitely not all (nm) - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:22:33

I don't see that happening yet. - Rabbit Test MU - 3/12 10:02:04

RE: I don't see that happening yet. - Spanky KU - 3/12 10:09:32