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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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De Blasio said, “The truth is, and New Yorkers and all Americans deserve the truth, it’s only getting worse. April and May are going to be a lot worse. Right now, we are a third of the cases in the country. That’s going to get worse. We’re about two thirds or more of the cases in New York State. That’s going to get worse. But the president of the United States is from New York City, and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown"

So, DeBlasshole, you think the president should show your leftist paradise some kind of...favoritism? And by not doing so, he's a bad orange man, right? I seem to recall NYC is a sanctuary city; drop that shit, and let ICE do their jobs and maybe, MAYBE then we'll talk. AND the American people will need to see an accurate accounting of every single cent to make sure it's not being misused.

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by saigonsmuggler:
It's comical, no really it's not. When it comes to investing, what have the experts been preaching? Diversification, diversification, and diversification.

Yet these Harvard and UPenn MBA's who run corporate America did what? Yup, they put all their eggs in the China bucket!

Pitiful really.

The blame can't be put entirely on the suits.

So many consumers in the US only care about the stuff they buy being as cheap as possible that companies with much more expensive American-made products have a hard time competing.

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Originally posted by saigonsmuggler:

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by saigonsmuggler:
It's comical, no really it's not. When it comes to investing, what have the experts been preaching? Diversification, diversification, and diversification.

Yet these Harvard and UPenn MBA's who run corporate America did what? Yup, they put all their eggs in the China bucket!

Pitiful really.

The blame can't be put entirely on the suits.

So many consumers in the US only care about the stuff they buy being as cheap as possible that companies with much more expensive American-made products have a hard time competing.

China isn't the only one that offers cheap labor. Samsung for example, has been successfully manufacturing most of their phones and other electronics outside of China. Vietnam and other Asian countries are capable of picking up the slack while nowhere close to China when it comes to hostility and theft towards the West.

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Originally posted by thunderson:
De Blasio is a douche for sure. Potus has been working with the governors of each state. Mayors need to talk to their Governors you sanctimonious little shit.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
New York City, the five burgs who've had a sense of entitlement since the Feds were dumb enough to bail it out AND let it hog up something substantially more than the lion's share of antiterrorism funding. Hey, Bill! Where in New York City is that little neighborhood known as Mar A Lago?

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I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.

Worse, I fear our efforts will do little to contain the virus, because we have a resource-constrained, fragmented, perennially underfunded public health system. Distributing such limited resources so widely, so shallowly and so haphazardly is a formula for failure. How certain are you of the best ways to protect your most vulnerable loved ones? How readily can you get tested?

We have already failed to respond as decisively as China or South Korea, and lack the means to respond like Singapore. We are following in Italy’s wake, at risk of seeing our medical system overwhelmed twice: First when people rush to get tested for the coronavirus, and again when the especially vulnerable succumb to severe infection and require hospital beds.

Yes, in more and more places we are limiting gatherings uniformly, a tactic I call “horizontal interdiction” — when containment policies are applied to the entire population without consideration of their risk for severe infection.

But as the work force is laid off en masse (our family has one adult child home for that reason already), and colleges close (we have another two young adults back home for this reason), young people of indeterminate infectious status are being sent home to huddle with their families nationwide. And because we lack widespread testing, they may be carrying the virus and transmitting it to their 50-something parents, and 70- or 80-something grandparents. If there are any clear guidelines for behavior within families — what I call “vertical interdiction” — I have not seen them.

Such is the collateral damage of this diffuse form of warfare, aimed at “flattening” the epidemic curve generally rather than preferentially protecting the especially vulnerable. I believe we may be ineffectively fighting the contagion even as we are causing economic collapse.

There is another and much overlooked liability in this approach. If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will it be safe for healthy children and younger teachers to return to school, much less older teachers and teachers with chronic illnesses? When will it be safe for the work force to repopulate the workplace, given that some are in the at-risk group for severe infection?

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Originally posted by midwest guy:
You might want to reel it in a bit. Texas leads the nation in Federally declared disasters,352 since 1953 per FEMA. Remember folks that live in glass houses thing

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Useful op-ed, surprisingly in NYT:

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[Advise reading the entire article.]

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I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.



But as the work force is laid off en masse (our family has one adult child home for that reason already), and colleges close (we have another two young adults back home for this reason), young people of indeterminate infectious status are being sent home to huddle with their families nationwide. And because we lack widespread testing, they may be carrying the virus and transmitting it to their 50-something parents, and 70- or 80-something grandparents. If there are any clear guidelines for behavior within families — what I call “vertical interdiction” — I have not seen them.

Such is the collateral damage of this diffuse form of warfare, aimed at “flattening” the epidemic curve generally rather than preferentially protecting the especially vulnerable. I believe we may be ineffectively fighting the contagion even as we are causing economic collapse.

There is another and much overlooked liability in this approach. If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will it be safe for healthy children and younger teachers to return to school, much less older teachers and teachers with chronic illnesses? When will it be safe for the work force to repopulate the workplace, given that some are in the at-risk group for severe infection?

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Originally posted by maladat:The blame can't be put entirely on the suits.

So many consumers in the US only care about the stuff they buy being as cheap as possible that companies with much more expensive American-made products have a hard time competing.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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Originally posted by midwest guy:
You might want to reel it in a bit. Texas leads the nation in Federally declared disasters,352 since 1953 per FEMA. Remember folks that live in glass houses thing

There's nothing to reel in and no glass houses here. NYC has been making a pig of itself on federal resources regardless of need or who else gets screwed for as long as it's been able to, and neither Texas nor anywhere else comes close.