Andrew Yang sits with a melancholy grin in the corner, echoes of a thousand Silicon Valley tech bros chanting “YangGang!” replaying in his head.
ShivaX
2956
I suspect it will break everything.
If that $1.5 trillion was directed at regular people? Maybe, maybe, we got a shot. It isn’t and never will be.
So the economy will implode. Demand for everything drops to near zero as everyone is effectively unemployed (but likely without actual unemployment benefits). Supply chains disintegrate. Trump bans all imports from everywhere (you know it’s coming). Other countries might start wondering why exactly do we use the US Dollar again?
Fun times.
New global economy to be based on likes.
There’s a reason I said the best-case scenario is millions of people out of work. Worst case is millions of people out of work and millions dead.
If it gets out of control, the hospitals are going to break down. Overrun with patients. Doctors and nurses sick. It’s going to be battlefield triage on who gets treatment or not, and frankly, there’s not going to be a lot who will get saved.
Society’s not going to operate normally if the hospitals break down. There’s nothing that scares the the shit out of people than seeing tons of people dying. People won’t want to venture outside, knowing if they get sick there’s no hope of treatment. Or if they bring their dying mother or father to the hospital and find out that, sorry, there’s a monstrous line of people in front of them. Eventually someone will bring a gun and try to force the issue.
This is how societies break down.
I think that means that me, @Timex, and @CraigM become the 1%
I mean not that I lamely kinda remember the results of that little social experiment or anything
Matt_W
2960
Sorry comrade, Qt3’s like economy is 100% communist. All are equal. All are deserving.
Nah, it will be guns and food.
Deserving of a trip to the Gulag, maybe, capitalist pigdog!
Scrax
2963
Virginia is fully into panic buying right now. I went looking for disinfectant spray for the plant.
Walking out of the grocery store. - this lady walks in - stands in the middle of the doorway - she has a surgical mask pulled limply under her chin - she’s talking on a phone - she stops and gives a full blown sneeze into the open air - and makes no effort to cover it.
I angled for the other doorway. I was 8 - 10 feet away from her so hope I’m good 😿.
Quaro
2964
If we handle this right, it’s like the most boring war or disaster in the world. Everyone just sitting at home, binging Netflix. And if we do it right hardly anyone is even dying. Just lots of bored people.
Free pornhub for all. (Free for Italy right now)
Matt_W
2966
Not true. A proper mitigation strategy would keep the disease at a dull roar after the initial panic. It would be present in people’s lives and tragic, but wouldn’t be apocalyptic. Guaranteed pay and job retention would go a long way toward soothing panic. Closing schools with a plan to help parents would help. Reassuring people that mail, internet, phone, water and power infrastructure will definitely remain intact no matter what (and having a plan to accomplish that) would help.
Someone tell the Trump that. Cause we’re not doing it.
ShivaX
2968
(I apologize in advance, I’m getting my mileage out of this one today)
I can’t help wondering how much of this is “duck and cover”. Yeah, do that, but… the WHO’s estimate puts this as worse than the 1918 flu? Potentially millions of civilian casualties. It’s nuclear strike levels of bad from where I’m sitting. Hope to God I’m wrong.
CraigM
2971
I am willing to pay high like taxes to help the less prolific posters among us.
Will you join me tonight on this debate stage in a pledge to see our Like fortunes reduced by 2% annually until such a time as Like equity is reached for the whole of this great forum nation of ours?
CraigM
2973
I will stand arm in arm comrade!
