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Re:California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy by rurp on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:37PM (#23834145)
Unfortunately we don't have a choice between unemployment being 20% vs 3%. The choice is between the current unemployment and whatever the rate would be if the govt issued no lock-downs and let the virus run rampant. I don't know what the unemployment rate would be in a world with overflowing hospitals and many thousands of deaths per day, but I bet it would be a heck of a lot closer to 20% than 3%.
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Re:California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy by matz1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:47PM (#23836015)
Hospital are frequently overwhelmed already even without this "pandemic". Many thousand deaths per day are normal situation even before this.
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Re:California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy by beefok on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:06PM (#23839191)
That's the point buddy. They will now be irrecoverably overwhelmed. Every portion of the infrastructure is going to be overwhelmed.
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Re:California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy by matz1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:22PM (#23839320)
My point is the hospital are no more overwhelmed then what has frequently happen in the past. We don't need lockdown back then, why we do lockdown now ?
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