I do not understand the concern about food, water, electricity. This thing will not infect 100% of the population, even if it did, it will not kill 100% of the population. Thus, food, water, and electricity supply can continue.
Not during a strict quarantine it won't. The people who run these things might be quarantined. Farmers can grow stuff but who is going to transport it and then get it into individual homes? Then. Many if not most Americans live from paycheck to paycheck. When their income stops who is going to buy their food? Do you think the Trump administration will give them a rent holiday?
Same goes for gasoline; refineries do not have to shut down.
They very well might. Do you want to be the one who risks his life just so I can have a tank of gas to go......where?
The only way these things stop, is if we just decide to stop producing them. This isn't a hurricane, or a locust swarm that would destroy crops and infrastructure.
No. It is much worse. In a severe epidemic would you let your wife go work in Walmart as a checker?
Shutting down any of those things is also bad for the economy, no one will want it to happen.
Correct. See the answer above.
Shutting these things down, will increase spread, no one wants that either.
Really? How would keeping people out of contact with other people spread the disease?
People still need to make money, people will still want to work, especially on the essential areas.
Yes they want to work. Yes they want to make money. You are the one who wants essential service workers to take the risk for you. They may have another idea.
Central banks around the globe will step in to deal with any sort of financial instability.
You mean to protect the assets of the wealthy like they did in 2008? I agree. Shall we revisit how many people lost their homes so that the mortgage bankers did not fail?
There are far too many people that do not want society to collapse, and thus, we will not let it collapse. We will find a way to not fall into a madmax world. We all live to comfortably to allow that.
Not a Mad Max world but a very hungry and discouraged one is quite possible. Let me ask you. Are you for telling landlords that they are not going to get their rent or get reimbursed for it in the future? Are you going to tell the supermarket workers that they must stay on the job as risk killing grandma who lives at home with them? Then consider that 20% of those over 65 still work. Their staying home, as they ought to, will be a huge hit to the workforce.
Beyond panic buying, I don't see why we should be worried about these things.
Look what is already happening. We are importing very little from China. The auto manufacturers are not producing cars in great numbers because they can't get component parts. The US does not produce masks at all. They all come from overseas. We can't get them now because the government is sequestering what few we have. We make very few drugs here anymore.
I just don't. That's not to say we shouldn't prepare, that's not to say we shouldn't get into good hygienic habits, etc. etc. Still, I just feel like there's a panic that shouldn't exist right now.
No. You see that is the problem. There is not enough concern. We have the president telling everyone all is well and his own CDC telling us that a pandemic is inevitable. But you can feel good for now. I on the other hand am preparing.
Let's just be calm for once.
There is a term in sailing. Dead calm.
My grocery store still looks packed to the brim, and I don't see why that should stop. If all truck drivers became sick, then I'll fucking drive a truck.
And you wife will be just fine with you risking your live, her life and the lives of all of your children so that I can get Mac and Cheese? No she won't actually. And read what you said. "
If all truck drivers became sick" Do you realize what that would mean? If a quarter of them became sick we would be well and truly fucked. And then think about what they are going to be carrying. Where are they going to get that stuff?
Someone will be there to drive the truck. There's too much at stake for everyone to just stay home and do nothing and let everything grind to a halt.
Yet that is exactly what happened in parts of China and is happening right now in Italy. Why do you think we are immune from the natural desire to stay alive?
This is our chance to get rich off the panic. If I'm wrong, well, all that doesn't matter then. So get out there, and MAKE MORE MONEY!
Stick to Penises. That is more your field.
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This isn't a hurricane, or a locust swarm that would destroy crops and infrastructure
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No. But unlike them in this case there is no "away" to run to. There is no "someplace else" where stuff is made. And infrastructure moves people. When they stop moving the fact that interstate highways are there is irrelevant.
Will it get as bad as all this? Maybe not. Even probably not. But don't expect to get away without major disruptions.