I give Trump supporters a little slack on this… Donny contradicts himself several times a week, it’d be difficult for anyone to maintain and defend his talking points. But I give them credit for trying.
I was listening to an economist on the shutdown, and he said it has exposed two things. The difference between Europe and USA is a metaphor. The USA is a shiny 67 Mustang that all everyone wants: its flashy, its very sexy, it goes fast, but it doesn’t have many safety features. Europe is more like a Volvo: it doesn’t go fast, it doesn’t look flash or sexy, but it’s the safest cars on the road.
So when you have to smash into the tree that comes along like a banking crisis or a contagious virus, the USA is not equipped to shut down the economy.
Remember, that the post 9/11 “let’s roll” only required a few tens of thousands to shoulder the risks of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq while the remain hundreds of millions were told to go to the mall.
Now, most Americans are being asked to make substantial sacrifices by sheltering in place. Those sacrifices are hardly “curling up in a ball.”
We could be thinking the same way, I started to entertain the idea the other day after talking with some people in the medical industry that say we might not never see a cure and this could just be a regular new seasonal virus that we have to get used to.
How do ya figure? Maybe we might get exposed one day. If people are quarantined, some people start to show symptoms, they are taken out of for lack of a better term circulation. It can stop it right there. Thoae people dont pass it on to the next etc.