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Crease said:
Anyone old enough to remember the vibe during the 2009 swine flu? I was in college and don't recall any day-to-day impact. Are the situations even comparable?
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Only thing out of the norm I remember was the swapping of contact info at work, which we did here a week or 2 ago. It wasn't anything like this.
 
Canada's First Lady tested positive, if y'all weren't aware.
 
Leetch3 said:
the reaction was nothing like this...but the other way of looking at it is how much worse did that end up being people people didn't overreact?
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I think you're making the right point. On the medical side, Italy is showing what happens when a first world country has its medical system overrun. It's not pretty. We might talk blithely about losing "only" 4% of our population if this runs amok but that is a hellacious impact on a country emotionally and economically. I have no doubt that doctors in Italy are making some really hard decisions right now. Like who gets care and who gets left to die. Someone you or I care about might get left on the wrong side of that equation here in the US if this gets out of hand. Which is why I think extreme precautions are warranted.

On the economic side, there's talk (not here but within the populace) that the media's clickbait coverage is tanking the stock market. The market is not the economy, let's get that out of the way. But I can also promise that institutional investors do not care a flip what CNN or Fox News has to say about the pandemic. Nor are banks, airlines, or business executives making decisions based on Wolf Blitzer's latest "breaking report." Parts of China have been on de facto lockdown for a couple of months. That impacts the economy. We're also in an oil price war and dealing with the implications of a lot of build up of asset prices over time. Not to mention the corporate debt buildup. It's all coming to a head at once.
 
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Crease said:
I think you're making the right point. On the medical side, Italy is showing what happens when a first world country has its medical system overrun. It's not pretty. We might talk blithely about losing "only" 4% of our population if this runs amok but that is a hellacious impact on a country emotionally and economically. I have no doubt that doctors in Italy are making some really hard decisions right now. Like who gets care and who gets left to die. Someone you or I care about might get left on the wrong side of that equation here in the US if this gets out of hand. Which is why I think extreme precautions are warranted.

On the economic side, there's talk (not here but within the populace) that the media's clickbait coverage is tanking the stock market. The market is not the economy, let's get that out of the way. But I can also promise that institutional investors do not care a flip what CNN or Fox News has to say about the pandemic. Nor are banks, airlines, or business executives making decisions based on Wolf Blitzer's latest "breaking report." Parts of China have been on de facto lockdown for a couple of months. That impacts the economy. We're also in an oil price war and dealing with the implications of a lot of build up of asset prices over time. Not to mention the corporate debt buildup. It's all coming to a head at once.
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Supply chain nightmare for the world, as China is the manufacturer for the globe. However, the bulk of the U.S. economy is our retail purchasing, followed by the home and constcution market. If people stop spending, especially on big ticket items, we will fall into recession.
 
leetch99 said:
Will be even more stuff shut down and more panic everywhere...
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I was at the corner store for my morning coffee and looked at a shelf in the store and they had 4 roll pack of toilet paper...and two rolls of paper towels....stuff you see when you live in a rural area . So far no cases on our island ...knock on wood . But...just because none have been reported or recorded...does not mean it is not here .
 
will1066 said:
Supply chain nightmare for the world, as China is the manufacturer for the globe. However, the bulk of the U.S. economy is our retail purchasing, followed by the home and constcution market. If people stop spending, especially on big ticket items, we will fall into recession.
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Actually, the US is the supply chain for most food worldwide. Imagine how bad it will be if our supply chain of food goes down. Not just for us, but for many other countries.
 
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NYR Viper said:
Actually, the US is the supply chain for most food worldwide. Imagine how bad it will be if our supply chain of food goes down. Not just for us, but for many other countries.
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Very true. We're the world's biggest food exporter.
 
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If they're planning to play the entire next season without cutting games, they're going to have to cut elsewhere. Training camp, preseason, etc

Got a feeling they just call the season all together in a couple weeks. Sucks but the logistics on it are probably too much to overcome
 
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Oscar Lindberg said:


If they're planning to play the entire next season without cutting games, they're going to have to cut elsewhere. Training camp, preseason, etc

Got a feeling they just call the season all together in a couple weeks. Sucks but the logistics on it are probably too much to overcome
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Inb4 Mika is not a 50-goal scorer.

We might have seen Staal's last game as a Ranger. That's good.
 
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will1066 said:
Supply chain nightmare for the world, as China is the manufacturer for the globe. However, the bulk of the U.S. economy is our retail purchasing, followed by the home and constcution market. If people stop spending, especially on big ticket items, we will fall into recession.
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We're already in recession... it just hasn't shown it (except for the markets)

When Augusta changes things out of their control YOU know you're in trouble. Those guys (sorry ladies, they're all men) control the WORLD

If they move their tourny it due to an edict FROM GOD HIMSELF
 
Riche16 said:
We're already in recession... it just hasn't shown it (except for the markets)
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People take the word recession to mean "bad times" but recession actually means something very precise, that economic output went down over a period of 6 months. It's possible that this does happen but when the virus goes away everything is going to bounce back except businesses that were hanging on by a thread
 
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