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| rgarito:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 21, 2020, 06:39:16 am ---I still don't see what they're going to do, the current situation is unsustainable, I happened to read an article today suggesting that the lockdowns and social distancing may need to go on for a year or more but I don't see that working out, sooner or later more and more people will decide they'd rather risk death than be imprisoned in their own home and there's no way we can sustain having millions of people forced out of their livelihood for that long. Even after a couple of weeks of this people are going to start to get very restless. I suspect that under the best of conditions we'll slow down the spread slightly while committing economic suicide, beyond that it's just going to come down to nature doing what it does, a bunch of people will die, most will not, that's just life. Unless we achieve either herd immunity through the natural process or come up with an effective vaccine likely to take a year or more, I don't think the virus is just going to go away, I would guess it will start spreading again as soon as controls are relaxed. Guess we'll see. --- End quote --- Yeah, some of us will be unaffected, work-wise (I work from home a lot anyways so there really is no difference for me). But for the bars, restaurants, entertainment things, etc (Florida's economy is largely tourism), unless the government plans on paying all of these people to sit home, I don't see how a year is physically possible. I know how things went after Hurricane Wilma down here, when we had no electricity for 30+ days. After about 2 weeks, things started to deteriorate fast.... |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 21, 2020, 06:39:16 am ---I still don't see what they're going to do, the current situation is unsustainable, I happened to read an article today suggesting that the lockdowns and social distancing may need to go on for a year or more but I don't see that working out, sooner or later more and more people will decide they'd rather risk death than be imprisoned in their own home and there's no way we can sustain having millions of people forced out of their livelihood for that long. Even after a couple of weeks of this people are going to start to get very restless. I suspect that under the best of conditions we'll slow down the spread slightly while committing economic suicide, beyond that it's just going to come down to nature doing what it does, a bunch of people will die, most will not, that's just life. Unless we achieve either herd immunity through the natural process or come up with an effective vaccine likely to take a year or more, I don't think the virus is just going to go away, I would guess it will start spreading again as soon as controls are relaxed. Guess we'll see. --- End quote --- Indeed. I don't know what's going to happen. Right now the idea is to limit the spread. Thing is, at what point are we going to decide it's OK? Once the lockdowns have been decided, it's going to be very hard politically to decide it's over - we have kind of a parallel with what happened regarding the fight against terrorism. It may take literally years before the special measures are canceled, and some of them may linger for yet longer. Really dunno. |
| Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: Bud on March 21, 2020, 05:43:01 am ---Do not worry, it is coming to your hometown https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-police-arrest-covid-19-1.5505349 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-warns-businesses-social-distancing-1.5505439 --- End quote --- By the time that forcible quarantining comes to Florida it will be much to late. The students at a nearby university are acting like it's Black Friday and are packing into the stores. And judging from the traffic , no one seems to be staying at home. But this is a major tourist area and everyone is supposed to go out and eat, party, drink ,shop, go to theme parks and other attractions and spend money in general so no ones knows how NOT to do those things. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 21, 2020, 03:57:26 pm --- --- Quote from: Bud on March 21, 2020, 05:43:01 am ---Do not worry, it is coming to your hometown https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-police-arrest-covid-19-1.5505349 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-warns-businesses-social-distancing-1.5505439 --- End quote --- By the time that forcible quarantining comes to Florida it will be much to late. The students at a nearby university are acting like it's Black Friday and are packing into the stores. And judging from the traffic , no one seems to be staying at home. But this is a major tourist area and everyone is supposed to go out and eat, party, drink ,shop, go to theme parks and other attractions and spend money in general so no ones knows how NOT to do those things. --- End quote --- Can't the federal government decide and impose special measures to all states in extreme situations like this? |
| james_s:
They could try, but it could cause a massive panic or an armed uprising in some areas. You can't just force someone out of their livelihood, people gotta eat and pay the bills. All kinds of people take jobs that are risky to life limb and health in order to make a living. Imprisoning people in their homes for extended periods doesn't work either, it has a huge impact on mental health and people get antsy. There are not resources to enforce it either. |
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