Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m

Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by IAmGraydon on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:20PM (#22774050)

You’re forgetting the possibility that a large percentage of the US population is already infected and asymptomatic, in which case the shutdown was ineffective in the first place.

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Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by macintux on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:46PM (#22774244)

We can’t act on that possibility without data.

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Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by rayuela on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:52PM (#22774705)

That's why we should be conducting random tests on samplings of the populations. This would be a statistics problem.

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Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by macintux on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:42PM (#22774983)

I absolutely agree, but we’re currently SOL.

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