Current Events > Get ready for the Great Depression Times 20

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This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. This is about our rights and freedoms. Shutting down the Country for just a month much less all the eight month talk will destory this country. There will be bread lines. There will be no more entertainment. Possible 100 to 150 million homeless Americans. What we are doing now is a thousand times worst than the virus could ever do. One has to wonder when this is all over how many people that were "saved" would wish they weren't saved at all.

mariorules12 posted...

Possible 100 to 150 million homeless Americans

That's almost half the country. I doubt it.

They're not shutting everything down for 8 months bro

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People will regret looking back that they asked their state governments for lockdowns, bet on that.

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Kazi1212 posted...

People will regret looking back that they asked their state governments for lockdowns, bet on that.

You're exactly right. Neither dem or pub gives a crap about the average person.

mariorules12 posted...

Possible 100 to 150 million homeless

Who exactly is going to kick them out?

But more broadly I think this post overlooks that you just can't have business as usual amidst an outbreak like this. Even before governments were encouraging social distancing, restaurants and casinos were seeing huge declines in customers, just from people deciding not to go out as much. You'd still see a collapse in those industries, which would have ripple effects throughout the economy.
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Agreed

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alternatively, a massive sickness impacting the entire country with no quarantine still would lead to a depression but also plenty of dead

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Antifar posted...

Who exactly is going to kick them out?

But more broadly I think this post overlooks that you just can't have business as usual amidst an outbreak like this. Even before governments were encouraging social distancing, restaurants and casinos were seeing huge declines in customers, just from people deciding not to go out as much. You'd still see a collapse in those industries, which would have ripple effects throughout the economy.

Governments won't simply be "encouraging" in the near future, they'll be mandating such things. I'm just worried it will take a much longer time for the government to give up these emergency powers given past history of such occurrences. Looks like a perfect opportunity at a power grab by the elites in charge.

Given what you said, that we would see economic decline anyway, I see no reasons for the government to rev up their emergency powers to such a degre

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Antifar posted...

Who exactly is going to kick them out?

But more broadly I think this post overlooks that you just can't have business as usual amidst an outbreak like this. Even before governments were encouraging social distancing, restaurants and casinos were seeing huge declines in customers, just from people deciding not to go out as much. You'd still see a collapse in those industries, which would have ripple effects throughout the economy.

Restaurants were packed here last weekend. I'm sure that we would still go into a recession like you said but we're not heading into "just" a recession at this point. We're heading into end of the world type stuff right now with hundreds of millions of people that would have wished they died.