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by gwright 7y ago
Not going to happen because of the virus. Could happen if the politicians don't remember to keep the economy functioning.
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I think what you are saying is that discretionary expenses have been greatly reduced. That is true, but I think you then make a very big leap to assuming the savings can easily offset the fixed expenses that you mention (insurance, rent&#x2
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I'm not really worried about lack of raw resources and immediate needs. We'll figure that out via a mix of savings, private charity, and local/state/federal assistance. I'm assuming that we'll mitigate the viru
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This really isn't helpful to the discussion. The US has unemployment benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, and many other programs. And it seems to be pretty premature to declare which country is or isn't going to come out of this with
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Tuna and chicken are pretty common in cans. Spam is another example. In any case I bought a couple weeks worth over a month ago when I saw what was coming.
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> The USA, in stark contrast, had a gutted CDC (thanks to the hard work of the GOP to shrink the government), an abolished White House Pandemic Response office (used to be part of the national security group), and a President who first i
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They also haven't shut down their economies, which was the point I was making. The actions you describe are not mutually exclusive to a more nuanced approach to reduced economic activity. That is, something other than economic suicide.
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Hard to understand your point. It seems quite obvious to me that you can't shut down the world economy for any length of time without introducing enormous amounts of collateral damage (i.e. deaths). What is nonsense about that?
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by gwright 7y ago
> Releasing classified info The President can make that decision, it is part of his powers as President. He isn't prohibited from doing that. Perhaps you don't think something in particular should have been released. If so mak
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> It's unseemly to blame the other half for that. Who is "blaming" anyone? Suggesting that there was no public consensus for extreme actions 6 or 8 weeks ago isn't blaming anyone for anything it is just stating a fac
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This is wishful thinking. It is doubtful that there was even a concensus from public health officials 8-10 weeks ago. There are way too many people using what they know now to criticize decisions that were made 8 weeks ago when the informat
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> I mean this kind of should have happened weeks ago, and the executive branch is a bit of a panicked joke. And I feel like these sorts of virtue-signaling remarks makes it harder to focus on what to do now . It isn't even clear th
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> But I can't help to think about how all of the bloodshed is a direct result of the failure of leadership at the federal level to be proactive about the situation. I feel like this is hindsight thinking and it is also a waste of en
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by gwright 7y ago
Drawing conclusions from this temporary pause in economic activity seems premature.
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As a matter of law the federal government controls the international borders and inter-state boarders. It is up to the state governments to limit movement within their borders. https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlaws
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There has been a steady drumbeat of warnings to expect that spike, but unfortunately the statistical nuances of epidemiology will be lost on many.
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That is because that is how our system of executive administration is designed. It is a federal system with the vast, vast majority of police powers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co... resi
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Why do you think there is no "social net" in the US? The US directs over a trillion dollars per year to poverty programs. Certainly it could be better organized, but the starting point for any conversation about this shouldn&#x27
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3M makes these masks in the US and around the world: https://news.3m.com/blog/3m-stories/3m-responds-2019-novel-c...
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> US is doing nothing whatsoever to ramp ... Why do you think that? Couple minutes of googling: https://news.3m.com/blog/3m-stories/3m-responds-2019-novel-c... https://www.venteclife.com/page&#x
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by gwright 7y ago
> The coronavirus is an upper respiratory virus I thought it was a lower respiratory virus. I have no idea if that changes the efficacy of masks but...
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> rent and interest payment amnesty These sorts of micro-management solutions seem like the wrong approach to me. It is very hard to target them to people who really need it. Some people will still have jobs and don't need the assi
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> To be clear, the only "government intervention" I'm advocating for is for the prosecution of those that participate in widespread buying out of supply for arbitrage purposes in order to ensure the primary market with vis
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So you prefer no one to have access to the items at any price (empty shelves), rather than a limited supply being available at a higher price? Why do you prefer that? Why do you think that individuals have no ability to adjust their pe
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by gwright 7y ago
> Why are you so insistent on $100 toilet paper being a good thing? Why are you throwing up straw man arguments? I'm not in favor of $100 toilet paper. I'm in favor of letting market mechanisms resolve supply and demand imbalan
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> You want to engage in arbitrage and play "the Free Market cures all ills"? You do that with your own community Free market is already solving this problem. I was at my local store today and they were restocking the shelves wi
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But if the price floated the empty shelf situation would have been mitigated.
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No it won't, it is time shifted. Doesn't negate the fact that there is a short term demand spike.
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In your A: situation you are explicitly saying that the normal suppliers are not raising the price. I am saying that the best solution to this problem is for the normal suppliers to raise their prices so that scalpers are disencentivized an
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Why do you value the idea of preventing people from meeting demand for a good or service? You are advocating for some magical price point that is morally virtuous regardless of the context and dynamic nature of supply and demand. Why? Why

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