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Right and it wasn't the president's decision. Not sure what your point is.
"An observation of something that was presently occurring that had some relevance to the discussion".
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#442It was refreshing in Feb to visit a National Park without have 5 Chinese buses pull along side you.
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Only time will tell, but fairly aggressive measures are already being taken in California and Washington where the cases are only in the hundreds, and many other states are following close behind when they have few to no cases. One thing even many Americans don’t properly appreciate is the degree to which most things are actually run at the state and local level. So far the federal dysfunction has not stopped the sta…
> One other factor in the US favor, it’s extremely low population density laughs in jersey
Not that your statement is not funny, but please do not turn hackernews into reddit
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On the other hand, Americans have much larger and more comfortable homes than Europeans. Americans have big garages to stockpile supplies, which means less trips to the store. Very few people use public transportation regularly. Most people have private back yards. Many more meals are take-out or drive-thru. More Americans use e-commerce for shopping than Europeans. In Europe by contrast, much more of life revolves a…
> Americans have big garages to stockpile supplies No they don't. No one in NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, ... have big garages to stockpile supplies and most of the US lives in those big cities with apartments without garages. In the suburbs they do but that's a minority of the population.
> No one in NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, ... have big garages to stockpile supplies
I think most of San Francisco by area is zoned "RH-" (Residential Housing), and most of that RH- area is RH-1 or RH-1D (single family). Most of the homes in those regions have lots of space.
We're not just talking about Zuck's mansion either, plenty of homes in the Sunset or other West SF areas that have that kind of room.
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#445The payroll tax holiday idea is bonkers. The people most in need of help here are hourly or gig workers who are told to stay home from work or who get sick and can't work. Paying less taxes on nonexistent wages doesn't help. It seems like the administration is more interested in propping up the markets than actually addressing the health crisis and its human costs. Also, eliminating copays on coronavirus treatment is…
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My Bellevue daycare told me today that they probably won’t close unless a worker, kid, or family member gets the virus or...the state shuts them down. Fun times.
Even if they won't close, you can still pull your kid out when you believe it's prudent to do so, right?
I’m ok with their precautions. Not only are they keeping things super clean, but they are giving my kid more hygiene education and training then I could possibly do on my own. For example, washing hands at home is a bit of a struggle because the sink is so high, it is much easier to drill in the habit at daycare, not to mention the peer pressure they apply by making a game out of it for all the kids at once. Child psychology is working for us in this case as long as it remains safe.
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Outbound flights are going to get a hell of a lot more expensive if all the planes have to return to the US empty.
Nah, all planes are just going to be routed through a non-European destination en route back. The Azores are about to be very popular.
The Azores are in Europe.
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#448Regardless of the ability of people to travel to the UK or Canada and get here (which people have done for a long time with other nations we don't take kindly to) it's absolutely going to reduce the number of people who will travel across the pond. Which is the goal, reduce infection rates. My concern is how economies are going to respond to the US being cut off from Continental ports for a month, which as far as I c…
The situation in Europe will be much worse a month from now than it is today, unfortunately. I'd bet on this ban lasting closer to 90 days than 30.
I suspect improvement when the weather warms. There is little community spreading in the summer countries of Africa and southern hemisphere.
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Not sure what you're looking at, but the S&P500 e-mini futures are still trading. No breakers were hit.
He is referring to the other day when trading was stop for 15 mins
No I don't think so. See this other poster's comment, 15 minutes after yours (synchronicity!)
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Also, do they mean SS and Medicare contributions in the payroll taxes, or just unemployment insurance? Like if we have a health crisis that disproportionately affects people who rely on Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, taking away funding for it isn't bonkers. It's batshit insane! We should be doubling, tripling taxes in the short term on those that can pay it to make up the funding gap for testing, treatment,…
> It's batshit insane! We should be doubling, tripling taxes in the short term on those that can pay it to make up the funding gap for testing, treatment, and surge capacity Taking money out of the economy by dramatically hiking taxes at this point seems _batshit insane_ to me. The government should be well equipped to absorb temporary shocks to revenue.
> The government should be well equipped to absorb temporary shocks to revenue.
Good thing the federal deficit is higher than it's ever been! No, wait, crap...