Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by debaserab2 on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:29PM (#22929497)

That's an impossible claim to backup. A traditional unemployment rate may result in a 2.5x increase in mortality rate, but this isn't a normal period of unemployment -- congress just injected an unimaginably large amount of money into the economy with the deliberate goal of keeping the unemployed afloat until things can re-open.

You can't really look at a past study of unemployment effects and expect it to be anything like what we're about to experience; we literally have no idea.

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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by 0xy on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:31PM (#22929519)

You're correct that we have no idea, but it's likely to be worse. Some communities won't come back from this.

The economy cannot be paused without massive stimulus to keep it afloat (and no, the current stimulus isn't keeping it afloat). Some companies are entering bankruptcy as we speak. They aren't coming back.

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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by pnutjam on Monday April 20, 2020 @07:04PM (#22929831)

I have it on good authority, that's a feature of capitalism. Someone will come along and open buy anything valuable.

Good system, eh?

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