Write your representatives, U.S. people. This does not need to be as bad as the government is making it. Flat out. This is a conscious choice to put large corporations over the well-being of the population.
I think a lot of the procedures that came about after 9/11 would have been implemented at some stage when it comes to the parks. I don't really mind the security checks as useless as they appear to be, the way I see it is that I'm going to be queuing regardless, it doesn't matter if it's a 10min wait at security and then a 10min wait at the gate or 20mins in total. The room security checks were implemented way after 9/11 as well.
I don't mind the temperature checks or the social distancing. At times, you do feel like cattle in the parks and getting a little breathing space is nice. The only thing I hope is removed is mandatory mask wearing.
9/11 is what people remember, but the actual economic problem was the dot-com bubble burst. The bottom of the market didn't come until late 2002/early 2003.
Nasdaq lost about 65% of its value from March 2000-March 2001.
That makes me somewhat hopeful for next year/post-vaccine/etc. ... if people reduce spending in the short term and WEAR A DAMN MASK we can get through this with as little damage to market fundamentals as possible. Dragging the timeframe longer because people don't WEAR THEIR DAMN MASK pushes us closer to worse fundamental damage.
about the post 9/11 stuff, if theres one thing that seriously needs to happen is that we cant rely so heavily in china for our products (like medicine) we seriously need to do something about our medicine production.
and companies like Apple and Nike need to stop relying on what constitutes as sweatshop slave labor (this has been ignored for too long).... if theres anything that needs to come out post covid is economic decoupling and economic distancing.. it has gotten to dangerous levels. we need to move production somewhere else.
How long should openings be delayed? If we delay things til August, cases will most likely be higher than they are now. What about September? Higher still! Maybe October? Even worse! November? Really bad! December? Nuclear Winter!
Cases are going to keep climbing higher and higher until herd immunity is reached.
i think south korea was able to open a lot of stuff with minimal risk because they heavily use masks. or something like that?
massive mask wearing would drastically reduce risk, if everybody wore masks and plastic shields, you could open everything.
but as far as mask wearing, i actually asked a lady at walmart "why no mask?" then she politely explained that it made her feel embarrassed and that she felt nervous from people looking at her and that it was uncomfortable and annoying , that it felt weird, then she left.
i kinda understood what she meant, because when i wear my respirator in public, sometimes i get 3 different reactions,
1) people laugh, take pictures, mock me (saying it isnt halloween yet) .\
2) people are super freaked out and avoid me or walk away, thinking i am sick or something, i have had some legit fearful reactions,
3) some people get mad or give me a dirty look, like, legit Angry looks, "angry eyebrows expression",
this doesnt always happen, it isnt everybody obviously, but i can see how cultural pressures makes the walmart lady feel anxious,
we have a society that refuses to wear masks for different reasons while also shames mask wearing,
how do we even fix that? any time i tell people on social media to wear masks i get replies from skeptics saying "masks only prevent spread, they dont prevent infection! your mask is useless"
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