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paulca:
On the economy, at least in the UK with the current government, the losses and risks will be nationalised in bailouts, austerity and taxes while the profits gained switching the economy back on will be privatised and quickly off-shored to tax havens.

You gotta keep the rich rich so they can filter away their cash and not have to do "trickle down economics" at all.

Read recently, no evidence that the billionaires of the USA have already netted a 450 billion profit since the pandemic started.  That's more than $1000 per head of US population.

Again, gotta keep the rich, rich and the plebs knowing their place.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: paulca on May 27, 2020, 12:57:11 pm ---On the economy, at least in the UK with the current government, the losses and risks will be nationalised in bailouts, austerity and taxes while the profits gained switching the economy back on will be privatised and quickly off-shored to tax havens.

You gotta keep the rich rich so they can filter away their cash and not have to do "trickle down economics" at all.

Read recently, no evidence that the billionaires of the USA have already netted a 450 billion profit since the pandemic started.  That's more than $1000 per head of US population.

Again, gotta keep the rich, rich and the plebs knowing their place.

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Not really news, right? - sadly.   The good news is that the poor today are generally much richer than the poor of yesteryear...

Zero999:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on May 26, 2020, 02:01:50 pm ---It seems pretty clear that population density matters a lot -  out in the countryside, the virus has less opportunity to spread than in dense urban environments.

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Population density probably makes a difference, but I think how close knit the community is matters too. If most people in a village know one another and regularly meet in one place such as a pub or church, then it guarantees spread. On the other hand, in a more densely populated commuter town few people may even know their neighbours and if they mostly drive to work in the neighbouring large town, rather than use public transport there might be less spread. I think culture and lifestyle matter as well as population density.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 27, 2020, 10:16:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on May 26, 2020, 02:01:50 pm ---It seems pretty clear that population density matters a lot -  out in the countryside, the virus has less opportunity to spread than in dense urban environments.

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Population density probably makes a difference, but I think how close knit the community is matters too. If most people in a village know one another and regularly meet in one place such as a pub or church, then it guarantees spread. On the other hand, in a more densely populated commuter town few people may even know their neighbours and if they mostly drive to work in the neighbouring large town, rather than use public transport there might be less spread. I think culture and lifestyle matter as well as population density.

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The progress of Covid19 in the Netherlands seems to underline that. Less densily populated areas with a lot of church visitors and close communities got hit relatively hard. Now Covid19 is on the rise in the bigger cities.

cdev:
A Columbian firm have developed a cardboard based hospital bed that doubles as a coffin.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/27/colombia-coronavirus-cardboard-hospital-beds-coffins

Here in the US the virus is just starting to hit many parts of the country, while places like where I live new cases are now declining a lot, making the overall trend for the US deceptive because in many areas the deaths are rising, in some of them substantially, but here they are falling so much it makes it look like the country has stabilized - which isnt true if you start looking at states and county level.

This is only because people have been staying indoors a lot. Its still very quiet here, with people not going to church or bars etc. Small groups I think are allowed to meet now but I dont think many are.

However, these seems to be some kind of group that drives around in their cars  all at once, maybe a couple of dozen of them - they all have SUVs and pickup trucks. -lots and lots of people honking their horns. Its probably good for their sanity, people do have to get out and do something social, even if they remain in cars.

I dont think we are at the Mad Max stage just yet.

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