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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by icelancer on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:12PM (#23001821)
Also sector divide. Small business owners are getting killed. PPP and EIDL will be a drop in the bucket. Mass conglomerations are coming and in 12 months we'll wonder why Amazon and Walmart and other multinational corps bought everything up.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by blast on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:42PM (#23002028)
You're right. Another issue is the age divide. Younger people: harder hit economically, less so by the virus; older people: harder hit by the virus, less so economically. This can only worsen the class fissure which had already developed along generational lines.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:44AM (#23004564)
Younger people are less likely to die as quickly from acute respiratory failure from the virus, but if the indications of various delayed and lasting effects are at all accurate, probably are, on average, losing more QALYs to the virus, and so are arguably harder, if less obviously so, hit.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by kharak on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:28AM (#23005542)
Could you link to some studies or articles about this? I've heard speculations, but haven't seen evidence to back it up.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by frockington1 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:45AM (#23006039)
I haven;t seen any non sensationalized evidence regarding long term effects of this virus (health, economically this will permanently cripple many nations). Can you link some health articles?
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by icelancer on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:46PM (#23002054)
Median age of death is well over 70 years of age. It's obvious who this virus strikes.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by blast on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:14AM (#23003625)
Yes, that's partly what I meant to say.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by dehrmann on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:23AM (#23003336)
Sector, yes, but I'd think businesses in similar industries with similar cash on hand for their size would do similarly well, regardless of size. As ancestor said, it's a class divide, but it's by sector and cash-on-hand, not so much by size. E.g. J.C. Penney is big-ish, but struggling because of store closures and cash-on-hand.