I guess it depends on the recipient of the stimulus. Airline industries have been hit harder than any other simply because banning or reducing travel is something everyone can agree on.
Airports and terminals cant go out and hire same day replacements when the country opens back up. Companies like Walmart, McDonald's, and the entire service sector can completely restaff in less than a week.
This isnt like 2008, where wall street took unnecessary risks built on lies that sank our economy. There arent any Americans that directly caused the current crisis, so they shouldnt be treated like they fucked up. It is kind of like how getting your license renewed is much cheaper if you do it before it expires. It will cost the country less to pay current employees than it would be to save the stimulus and hire tons of new people.
The stimulus shouldnt be completely dismissed as socialism when people here advocate for it. When you think about it, the stimulus is no different than getting your money back on your tax returns. It is your money in the first place, so you are going to see people on the Right who agree with it. There isnt any conflict with supporting the stimulus and conservative values. The most important variable for conservative compatibility isnt how much we would get, but who gets what. If a bunch of freeloaders get checks, then it would be socialist bullshit. Conversely, if the money goes to people who paid their taxes, it should be supported by everyone here.
Attendance for almost every art venue has been plummeting in recent years and months. They all decided to get woke, and they are about to be broke. Their hatred of Trump and his supporters resulted in customers leaving in droves.
Democrats really like how the UK forces every citizen to pay for a TV license. Cable is not optional there, and you can be fined if they know you have a TV and your address doesnt show up in the license database.
In effect, Nancy wants a way to protect Democrat propaganda from popularity and quality requirements set by the free market. She wants propaganda outlets that can push constant lies without the possibility of revenue drying up because they alienated and insulted everyone.
I dont know if your application of the death statistic is accurate. There are no viruses that infect 100% of the population of earth, so the .6 -2% number isnt as simple at .02 x 6 billion, or whatever number used.
You would have to expect to see the regular flu killing at least 80,000,000 each year, since it has a lower mortality rate than Coronavirus. Obviously, the flu isnt killing that many people a year.
There is a huge variation in how people are affected by a disease. Our bodies are all unique, so one guy spewing pink froth isnt indicative of other cases. All we know for sure is that pink froth is a symptom of the virus. That symptom could be atypical or common. Pre-existing illness is a large factor in the mortality rate, so you would need to take that into account, too.
I'm not saying it isnt a serious threat, but I am saying 200 million dead globally is an incredibly high estimate. Each variable only decreases the mortality rate when factored in.
It's a funny meme, but it isnt even remotely correct. Shelves arent empty because of panic buying, they are empty because they arent being restocked quickly enough to meet demand.
You can tell shipping and manufacturing is the bottleneck because aisles are completely barren of certain products, and super full of others in a different category. Desperate people buy everything. They wouldnt leave the entire aisle of gluten free food untouched if they had no other options.
It seems like people are trying to do the old "lie for your own good" method to get alternate information out. Delingpole is a huge global warming guy, though, so I'd imagine he would try to link those explanations.
Maybe he isnt doing this, but I can see someone using a conspiracy for attention grabbing, then seeding the potential fix within. If he believes chloroquine is the solution, then telling people that the governments are keeping it from people would drive interest in the right AND the left. He isnt a fear merchant, but he is REALLY bombastic, so maybe that is what is happening.
He has earned enough goodwill to be taken seriously as far as I'm concerned, but "dont make faces or it will stay that way forever" isnt exactly uncommon as a tactic, you know?
How does this effect the black population with sickle cell? You'd see a marked difference in black vs everyone else in transmission and infection, right?
I work at a major airport with almost entirely black people and I'd love to give them some good news. It's a bitch to fight the media programming about the chinese virus in the first place, so most of my day is spent telling everyone to be safe but dont panic or worry too much. A fine line to walk, made much more difficult by the parasites at CNN and MSNBC.
He is a product of his upbringing, as we all are. He grew up in Chicago, and was steeped in constant, aggressive, ubiquitous propaganda against Republicans.
Imagine you were a Boy Scout your whole life. Your dad was a scout, and so was his dad. You were all scout masters to thousands of kids over decades... and then news started breaking that the Boy Scouts were being taught strange things. The news kept getting worse over years, until it was finally revealed that they were sacrificing kids to appease an ancient, demonic deity of destruction.
Tim is you, the boy scouts are Democrats, in this situation.
This is in my top 50 forum replies of all time. (That is out of about 600 million I've seen, so it goes without saying that any ranked in the top 500 are perfect replies. There needs to be something more than perfection to rank higher, though. There needs to be attitude, moxy, and heart. That's what your reply has.)
The amount of people employed by airlines directly and all of the tangential service and airport personnel is incredibly high. Helping the airlines isnt necessarily about the air carriers themselves.
Think of it like this... Airports and carriers required tons of people to function before the virus. Whenever things go back to normal, those people have to be there. Airport employees cant be replaced on the fly, since TSA background and badging is required to work. Badging isnt a quick or easy process. A flood of new employee badges will slow the process to a crawl and extend wait times. On top of that, the badging office would also have less employees to process the flood. Tons of badges combined with less people processing badges will cause exponential delays, and the airlines cant function if they dont have the bodies.
Providing a service or good at a markup isnt price gouging, but it definitely exists. In my opinion, there needs to be ill intent to call something price gouging. The sanitizer guys bought up all the available supplies for the specific purpose of creating a mini-monopoly. They werent trying to provide a needed service while making it worth their time. They cause the shortage in the first place.
Price gouging laws are great for scalpers trying to rip off the people affected by a crisis. When a particular item is in high demand, buying the entire stock and forcing people to pay ridiculously high prices is reprehensible. The scalper is the only one that benefits in those cases.
Gouging laws can also prevent goods and services that are desperately needed. For those too young to remember hurricane Katrina, it was a very, very destructive hurricane that came close to wiping New Orleans off the map. The power was out for weeks in many coastal areas. Some entrepreneurs decided they would buy generators from places that werent completely sold out and sell them to the people without power. They marked up the price some to cover transportation costs and their time spent setting things up. The people without power were more than happy to pay a little extra for the generators. That's when the government stepped in and told the entrepreneurs that they had to sell the generators without any markup at all.
The people selling the generators couldnt make a profit, so they had no incentive to fill the demand. The entirely predictable result was that the people affected by the hurricane had no possible way to get power, even if they would have paid a 5000% markup for it. The people without power and the people selling the generators would both have benefited, but politicians wanted to seem like they were keeping the public from being extorted.
I get it, but "it isnt me saying this, it's totally the video." Isnt really a response.
The numbers you used dont make sense, so it doesnt matter who said it.