Oregon is about the size of San Diego... and has similar numbers. Which is why I have argued that the shutdown should have been customized to each area.
that is a possibility. there was headline saying the some Regional Fed project 30% unemployment. Hopefully that is not going to be accurate. And I also just read there is a mutated strain of Covid that is more infectious. https://news.yahoo.com/mutant-coronavirus-emerged-even-more-110046843.html so maybe that is what they have not been telling us.
All parking lots closed... wow paradise for locals. Huntington was good back in the day before the Inland Empire filled up with lowlifes. It was one of the only beaches around that allowed people on the beach at night. And there is a dog beach. I got fished out of some big surf there when I was 10 lol. LA has the same problem. Once the subway was built Santa Monica and Venice became unpleasant. I remember when Venice was a little dangerous and I would tighten my pedal straps and click in a bigger gear riding through there. Now its just a big campsite/toilet.
Could be but like the threat itself it really depends on where you live and personal experiences. If you're living in NYC the Covid threat isn't being overblown, damn near everywhere else it's highly exaggerated. If you work in certain industries or have a small business closed down this is a disaster, for those yet to be impacted it's really not much more than an inconvenience at this point. Covid will be managed soon enough. The true measure of this economic shutdown is still unfolding and will be well into next year before we can get our heads around the extent of damage done. One word comes to mind. Taxes, soul crushing taxes for years to come.
Rather than view NYC as an exception, why not view it as a cautionary tale? A canary in the coal mine. Because the less populated areas will catch up in due course if they ignore the virus.
The duck ordering had been done. A lot of extra corruption nobody needs from the regime in power but the pause had to be done. Your dimmer switch notion would have over 300k dead by now as best I can tell and people would be screaming to lock down. Then five minutes later grumbling again. Am I missing something, or would exponential spread have dimmed? How would it have worked? Every time I think of the old enough to know better American people thinking they are being cute with my rights and my freedumb or death.. Anyway my literally brain damaged after a car crash ten years father-in-law ago locked the electronic keys in the car looking for his pen. The car locks itself in 60 seconds .. I have to walk to town for supplies. If this was the first time he had done this in five years it would be OK.. My wife did not have the spare as her obsession with carrying nothing she does not immediately need including individual credit card sized electronic keys (so heavy) got the best of her the day we left the city to the country house.. Now I walk to town.. The world is full of egits.
It's a cautionary tale for large urban areas. Completely agree more strict measures for those areas. Not convinced that needs to be the broader approach nationwide. Prudent but softer measures probably sufficient for smaller communities.
Yeah but the panic of COVID and the panic of the shutdown is being sold nationally so I am not looking at it regioanlly. But national media and DEM and GOP leadership is playing a shit game of tennis of selling what a global catastrophe Corona is versus what a destruction of economies and families were are creating with nothing in the middle to simply handle the issue which is a purely medical one. I fele both sides have overblown thier argument because neither side gives a shit about what is actually happenning...only winning a point. Damage is done but our government get swept up in the "I am right" game rather than address this issue head on like we saw in Soouth Korea, taiwan, Japan and numerous other countries. From Trump down to the Governors it was like watching a bunch of children bitch and moan about everything with our cheeto wasting so much time trying to prove he is right (wrong) and governors try and prove they are right (wrong) and the rest of us got screwed. In addition to Trump talking out of his ass daily and lying, you think I also needed to hear Gov. Cuomo get 60 minutes of air time to create some of the most runny verbal diahrrhea I have seen in years? I would like to see Biden win in 2020 to remove the useless shit we have now and I also would love to see McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer, and the other GOP asshat in HoR I am blanking out on removed from power and marginalzied. Anyone in those camps or Bernie's camp not needed. The government handled the crisis like a bunch of camp counselors in a Friday the 13th movie. U.S. has hit a low in political culture. With the luxury of speaking to clients in Malaysia, Japan, China, Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico and a few other places, the U.S. is being laughed at in how they handled this and the constant jumbled and confused messages that was put out by all the media (yes all the media) and the people in power of both parties. A simple 45 to 60 day strict protocol enacted at the end of February would have us in right now by Stage 3 of the opening process with half the amount of federal aid needed to assist those affected. Instead we are getting almost 90 days of this fuck flea vagina circus.