conan
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Well apparently my state sent me a email other day.
Gov. Inslee announces easing of certain COVID-19 social distancing restrictions
Gov. Jay Inslee has announced the state’s first steps to ease certain COVID-19 restrictions including allowing certain low-risk construction projects to restart and allowing the partial re-opening of some outdoor recreation activities
I got this in my business email other day. Then he comes out with this
Gov. Jay Inslee announced in a press conference Wednesday that the statewide stay-at-home order will remain in place beyond May 4, but did not say for how much longer.
But he’s going to open some parks? Oh wait, the state gets fee’s from that. What the ■■■■ is going on here?
WuWei
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Washington is looking good. I’m glad for you. We’re easing open tomorrow.
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How about predictably consistent and boring. 
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Our city manager and counsel are eager.
This is costing all our levels of gov’t billions in the state in lost sales tax revenues.
If this goes on too long every town, city, and state in the country will be in serious financial trouble.
Up until the past week or so, you couldn’t even get tested for covid19 in most parts of the country unless you exhibited severe symptoms. Simply having a fever and cough wasn’t enough. You had to be ill enough to require hospitalization in order to get tested. I highly doubt inaccuracies in other countries’ reporting or lack of testing are enough to shift the US’s actual proportion of the world’s total infected to < ~25%.
That is of course absolutely untrue in every way possible.
Total Test Results in US
6,231,182
conan
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Yes but ■■■■■■■ is back tracking. From the letter he sent business owners and his comments made on Wednesday night don’t match up.
All available evidence suggests patient zero came to the US during the first 3 weeks in December.
It could not have spread as far as it did in the time required from the original 15 to become a pandemic so quickly.
The success of this virus is the up to 2 weeks or more you can be completely asymptomatic and spreading it.
When the din dies down hopefully someone will start looking through the records for potentially missed/misdiagnosed cases from Dec/Early Jan before our first “reported case”.
This is pretty much all you can do. The longer they keep it locked down the more the GDP and businesses will fall, and then the inevitable businesses will start falling like dominoes and foreclosure will skyrocket. I think some are underestimating the impact this shutdown will have on the economy, and that everyone will just go back to work, and others thinking they can dodge this virus, it will get us all just like the flu does unless one lives shacked up in the woods by themselves like Ted Kaczynski.
We might not see a vaccine ever or at best years, and this will just keep coming back like the flu does but without the vaccine and a bunch of people who don’t have any antibodies to fight the virus since they been locked inside.
The bill for globalism and placing a countries manufacturing base in a hostile communist country has finally came.
We’re approaching 30% Unemployment. Three months of that and we’re heading for a depression no matter what other interventions we have from the Fed’s.
Once the collapse begins it will be like a tidal wave.
This could get stupidly serious fast.
tnt
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But then the same will be true in SK…
regardless, they are at about the same position of the curve as us. They have zero cases a day from community transmission.
How many do we have?
WuWei
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Well, that’s not true but we’ll pretend it is. What does that tell you?
tnt
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Yeah, it’s true. I posted an article (I think) up the thread. The new cases they are getting are being discovered at the airports.
It tells you aggressive track and trace works to contain COVID 19 and allows for society to approach normal faster.
Adam
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So any 2nd quarter GDP predictions? Right now Atlanta is predicting -16. But Atlanta says their predictions can’t take a lot of covid into account.
JayJay
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I agree but they do things in South Korea we would never do here.
And couldn’t…for socio-political reasons.
Petty Partisan Scare tactics.
Even at the height of this outbreak we had adequate resources to fight it.
The “measures” were designed to flatten the curve, mission accomplished, time to go back to work.
