ICP more sane than the GOP
Go ahead and invest in cans of beans, toilet paper and rice then. When your’e done with that you can invest in clothes, shoes and gaming mice and Disney movies and just invest your way through life. That way when someone asks you what you invest in, you can grin and say: everything!
Clears it right up.
That statement they put out is better written, more empathetic and far more reassuring than anything the Trump Administration has released to date. Whoop whoop!
Poverty , Food Insecurity, the virus, and the western world being worried about themselves first is going to be a very deadly combination. Throw in conflict that might result due to scarcity and it might even be higher.
Seeing those poll results, it’s one of the first times in the Trump era tha something made me feel like I’m not living on a planet full of insane people.
We can use really good public safety measures, social distancing the work force, disinfectants everywhere, masks. I was thinking this morning, and this is just kind of a thought experiment because I was thinking about this — why don’t we just put everybody in a space outfit or something like that? No. Seriously, I mean —
Las Vegas mayor seems like a winner.
Timestamped for great justice
I’d call myself one of those folks who want it relaxed, but only very slightly, slowly, and gradually, and starting in a couple more weeks.
If things are still looking good May 8- I’d want to see a few things open up.
You know what would make me feel more comfortable about opening things back up? A plan. A detailed analysis of what we’ll need in order to do so combined with actions that will be taken to get us there as well as contingency plans for if hotspots blow up and if a second wave of the virus hammers us hard.
Sane Clown Posse now surely.
Agree. It’s a reminder to me that social media, and the media in general, highlight divisions. Conflict is more interesting.
Other polls have reached similar results:
Polling conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) from April 15 to 20 showed that 80 percent of Americans support strict shelter-in-place measures to protect people and limit the spread of COVID-19. Only 19 percent of respondents believed that the social distancing orders were placing an unnecessary burden on people and the economy.
An overwhelming number of Democrats, 94 percent, backed the stringent stay-at-home orders. Among independents, 84 percent supported the shelter-in-place restrictions, while 61 percent of Republicans also backed the measures.
Look, I don’t know what kind of infinite time planet you live on but the President is working like 36 hours EVERY DAY. He doesn’t have time to come up with this sort of plan - WE NEED TO OPEN NOW! Freedom is being limited…hard-working Americans are worried about whether or not their au pair’s will be able to stay in the country. This is not the time for the coastal elites to start planning gun seizures and illegal voting scams!
For some reason, and i’m sorry for this, but i imagine the tune of “You down with OPP” going
You down with ICP [not G O P]
Tried to watch that yesterday, but the level of stupid was just to great for me to handle and I couldn’t make it past 10 minutes.
Between Amazon and other shopping online places, grocery stores, drugstores, hardware stores, and restaurants offering carryout and drive-thru, I’m hard put to come up with anything else I really need to have open.
The things I miss right now besides seeing extended family are going out to dinner, going to a movie, and going to a bar to hear live music. Even if they open up restaurants for dine-in, movie theaters, and bars, I wouldn’t be going to them anytime soon anyway.
What I miss that won’t change when things open up is going out and not worrying about catching a deadly virus. Sadly, that’s going to be with me for some time, perhaps the rest of my life if they don’t develop a vaccine.
These are the times in which we live.
Sure, I know incompetence of officials isn’t anything new whether they be elected, appointed, or granted it by birth. But it seems like Trump is the poster child for the anti-intellectual and anti-expertise sentiment that’s been festering for a while now. She fits right in with that.
NZ has essentially sacrificed tourism for the foreseeable future as a result of closing the borders. That’s 6% of GDP and 25% of total export earnings gone in a month…
New cases are now at low single digits a day and some restrictions will lift on Tuesday morning NZ time. Most of the new cases are as a result kiwi’s overseas returning home and so are people that are already in government enforced isolation. Being confined to a 5 star hotel for 14 days is not the worst thing in the world I imagine.
Having said all this I am very skeptical of the Ministry of Health’s ability to actually pull off the contact tracing that’s required to keep the cases low once restrictions are eased pass the level they will be next week.
And I read this morning that someone pitched that the government suspend the official information act during the lockdown. Fortunately cooler heads appear to have prevailed.
I didn’t really understand why until later in the interview. To be honest even i’m not entirely swayed by the life-value calculation, especially because there’s really no objective way of evaluating the currency’s “weight”.
What’s the difference between 1,000 people dying at the “quality of life” going down 2% over the whole population, vs 30,000 dying and the quality of life over the whole population remaining the same? I think she was just a bit too stiff and maybe unsympathetic to non-experts about assuming this currency based model is just fundamental and the only possible way to allocate resources.
Also, i envy a country when many of the “not so good” guests are of the calibre of those.
I can imagine we’re going to end up with a lot of cross-Tasman tourism ads in the foreseeable future: “Come and holiday in NZ, the only place you can visit and not have to spend 14 days in isolation upon your return!”