Friday, March 29, AD 2024 10:01am

Now the Lockdown is a Crisis

From The Washington Post:

In Michigan, some unstaffed highway rest stops are shuttered. In Santa Barbara, Calif., local librarians are out of a job. Dayton, Ohio, has ordered furloughs at nearly every agency, and in Arlington, Tex., police officers and firefighters may soon see painful cuts…

Among municipalities, the new budget cuts could be profound: Between 300,000 and 1 million public-sector workers could soon be out of a job or sent home without pay, according to a new estimate from the National League of Cities. The steep reductions in staffing levels could affect education, sanitation, safety and health, local leaders warn, potentially leaving critical public services in utter disarray.

For governors, mayors and other top local officials, their economic troubles stem from the precipitous drops in revenue that have come as a result of shuttered businesses and sharp decreases in shopping and travel. The extent of the disruptions are poised to reach a level not seen since the Great Recession more than a decade ago, a reality that has prompted many city and state leaders to plead with Washington for help.

Go here to read the rest.  What did the bloody fools expect?  Cause the private sector to go from the best economy in my 63 years to a reenactment of the Great Depression with no ill effects on the public sector?  We have the most idiotic political class in our history.  End the madness of the lockdowns yesterday.

 

 

 

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Frank
Frank
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 2:29pm

Exactly, Don. And Hell will freeze over before these media morons,who are primarily responsible for nationwide panic, acknowledge either the complete falsehood of their dire warnings or their role in creating the economic disaster.
I know God is allowing all this for a reason, and that we have no right to expect to understand it. But I sure wish He would at least give us a hint.

Chris C.
Chris C.
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 2:29pm

Can anyone come close to explaining why this is necessary? There was no other way to handle this pandemic other by destroying the U.S. and world economies? Whether the virus is or isn’t as deadly as claimed isn’t the point anymore. The so-called “cure” is proving to be far worse than the disease it was supposed to help minimize. The harm to public health posed by the Covid-19 virus will be miniscule compared to the unavoidable harm to public health resulting from a global depression. It won’t even be close.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 3:11pm

True for decades: “We have the most idiotic political class in our history.” The cities’/states’ bankruptcies have been developing over multiple decades of Democrat rule. Before this insanity, NYC owed $63,000 (Chicago is second worst at $37,000 per) for each taxpayer – many of whom will be deserting like rats fleeing a sinking ship. Do Not Bail Out Mismanaged Cities/States.

They keep raising the bar to lift the lock downs which have been unsuccessful and mainly political theater/virtue signaling.

They’ve unleashed unnecessary hells.

NY food pantry lines reported 20 blocks long, for one.

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 3:54pm

Every police officer / sheriff and firefighters in every State Capitol and County seat should let go. See if that affects anything.

Tom Byrne
Tom Byrne
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 3:56pm

Frank:
With PUBLIC sector workers now affected, I think Hell will chill rather quickly.

Frank
Frank
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 6:21pm

@Tom Byrne: You may well be right about that. This should be interesting, or at least distract us from the social carnage.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Wednesday, April 29, AD 2020 7:34pm

Frank, I think God’s reason is quite simple:

“Example is the school of mankind, and he will learn at no other.”

And as every parents knows, sometimes your kid’s just got to learn.

ken
ken
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 8:03am

They had two choices: kill the entire economy so the elderly care business could continue to exist or lockdown nursing homes/retirement communities so that modern society could continue to prosper. Can any doom and gloomer please tell me why the first choice was better? Of all the disinformation that has been floating around since the start of the Chi flu we knew for certain children were largely unaffected and the elderly were at a far higher risk. Perhaps not in a Chinese lab, but still a man made disaster.

DJH
DJH
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 8:49am

“They had two choices: kill the entire economy so the elderly care business could continue to exist . . .”
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I am not entirely sure I understand that. In NYC, they forced nursing homes to take Covid patients (and sent along body bags!), and I understand that nationally nursing homes in general have been hit hard (as they usually are during flu season, I think?)
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Additionally, cardiac care, stroke care, hip replacements, cancer, etc, all of that generally tends to be the type of health care that the elderly use. Not that there isn’t pediatric cancer (St. Jude’s Hospital is the leader there I think), but generally, cancer, cardiac issues, stroke, all of that is directed toward the elderly. Almost all of it has been deemed “non-essential” to the point that even when there is a true emergency, the elderly are reluctant to go the the ER. There have been several articles on this is the various national papers: where are all the cardiac emergencies and strokes.
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If anything, the response seems to be made to eliminate our elderly and medically frail population.

Bob Kurland, Ph.D.
Admin
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 9:58am

“If anything, the response seems to be made to eliminate our elderly and medically frail population.”
DJH, doesn’t that make sense, in a utilitarian context? A modest proposal to minimize Social Security and Health Care Costs. Expensive in the short term, but cost-saving in the long run.

ken
ken
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 11:08am

DJH, my point was our intellectual superiors decided to destroy the overall economy and millions of individual’s livelihoods to stop the spread of a virus that is mainly lethal to older and sicker individuals. Older and sicker people always die at a faster rate (barring war) than the healthy population. Why did that need to change with this current virus?

DJH
DJH
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 4:36pm

Dr. B.K.: it occurred to me that not only is this a pretty good way to, er, offload people who are Soc Sec/Medicare/Medicaid recipients, but with hospitals closing because they can’t perform elective/nonessential surgeries, and therefore can’t earn a profit (gasp! Profit is evil when we talk education and healthcare!!), now is the perfect time to have a very serious discussion on how Medicare for All will be a more effective and efficient system than what we have now.
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Well, now may be not be a perfect time, but if the Democrats solidify power in November, we will certainly get Medicare for All before the 2024 election.
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Ken-I would like to think that the government reactions started innocently enough, but I think it became a crisis the Democrats were not going to waste.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 4:49pm

The China Murder Virus didn’t kill the economy. Politicians did. And, CA,CT, IL, MI, NJ, NY will keep it crashing until they think they’ve hurt him badly enough to beat Trump in November.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Thursday, April 30, AD 2020 10:33pm

Or maybe the Voters in those states will vote for Trump out of spite.

If I lived in MI, I sure wouldn’t be mad at Trump.

DJH
DJH
Friday, May 1, AD 2020 4:50am

I live in Michigan. From what I can tell the population is deeply divided. A lot of people despise Trump. A lot of people Whitmer. I do not know which percentage is higher.

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