Most of his early life Trump appears to have been a Democrat. Trump then registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987 and since that time has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, Trump changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic. In September 2009, Trump changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party. In December 2011, Trump changed to “no party affiliation” (independent). In April 2012, Trump again returned to the Republican Party.
Few politicians in history have changed parties so many times.
But that doesn’t match any CDC guidelines. No surprise though, consistency has not been a strong point. The facts are it’s already out there in other states, just not sufficient testing ability (still. Although we’re only up to maybe 10% of testing capacity we might need. Which is much better than <1% we were at a few weeks ago). Yes, it’s less prevalent in other areas than NYC but probably not too many weeks behind.
It’s a separate argument whether everyone who travels (by plane for sure, maybe also by vehicle between cities) should be required to quarantine. That’s how countries that have things under control are – they require any arrivals from outside to self quarantine (with strong enforcement/penalties) for 14 days. If we really do have some states that have low enough numbers to seriously move back to case tracking and randomized population monitoring with expanded testing capabilities that come online, then any travelers from outside of those areas that enter will need to be quarantined… or you just have new outbreaks continuing to re-occur and all that work is for nothing and no benefit.
It would have been pretty easy to just allocate funds to go to companies to directly pay ONLY for covering full wages/salary for employees that aren’t working and are at home (due to being non-essential services and/or stay at home orders or individual self-quarantines). The Fed already started buying corporate debt in an unprecedented manner – wasn’t THAT what was “just about loans”?
Easy, and pretty ineffective. Businesses have more bills to pay than wages. Maybe that’s how the $1200 per person should’ve been allocated instead, but not the business loans. The point of the business loans is to ensure there are jobs for those people to come back to.
They certainly do. But the rest of the overhead is relatively small if they’re shut down without labor/COGS/etc over the short time periods being currently discussed. Labor’s generally the vast majority of budget for service industries and labor+COGS for retail.
If/as things go on for months rather than the WH publicly stated weeks, there is time for more well thought-out help with carry costs (rent/utilities/etc). Wouldn’t the first thing any business would cut to survive would be labor costs where no labor is being done? Not selling the building and equipment they’d need
I think you’re being too technical, and not considering the practical context of the comment. There are a lot of rural areas that are isolated by default, where you know literally everyone’s name and may go weeks without coming in contact with an “outsider”. Such areas have very little risk of exposure - until the city dwellers invade in search of refuge, inadvertently bringing the virus with them. Of course remaining virus-free isnt guaranteed and would likely happen over time, but that’s by far the biggest threat to significantly accelerate the timeline. (Not to mention, those are also the areas with pretty sparse medical resources to begin with.)
Exactly right. Here, I can tell you, there is no coronavirus so far which has not been brought in by those who travelled outside the region and then returned, bringing the disease with them.
The probability of rural natives, like myself, who have remained at home, as I have, carrying the virus is nil. But when we are forced to come into contact with city refugees . . well . . that changes quickly.
As I wrote earlier, this is happening in many places, not just here where I am. I don’t blame the city people for wanting to flee for their lives. I would do the same thing if I were in their shoes and if I had ever been of a mind to live in the city. I never was.
People smarter than me already know this. And apparently there are a GREAT many in that category! Anyway:
In winter I always provision for roughly five to six weeks for reason travel can become unsafe. We had snow on the ground here yesterday (gone now). It can snow here in May.
Anyway, I have been living effortlessly for the last couple of weeks on those winter provisions, and eating quite well. As they say, beeeeeeg mistake.
Noodling around finally now on Walmart.com and guess what? A great many items I want to purchase are OOS (out of stock), having been bought out already by people much smarter than me! This is another one of those obvious things I’m too often too stupid to foresee. Anyway, I have waitlisted a bunch of food and must hope for the best. I probably still have a good three or four weeks of supplies, so no emergency unless this keeps on. Am not keen on going to the supermarket.
OK, you say, how about Amazon? Well, I ran across the following which anyone wanting to buy from Amazon should check out:
Expensive starter cost, but you could try samsclub. You have to pay them $100 for plus for free shipping. But various things seem to come in and out of stock and if you pay for plus you can order them separately. Delivery’s about a week out for me. I’m not in old or particularly vulnerable group but still want to avoid additional store trips. If Sams Plus doesn’t end up worth it over a full year, I think the full $100 can be refunded near the end of the year.
How could you just be realizing this now? We know you’ve been paying attention to the situation from your posting here, have you just been in denial all this time?
In England . . . . interesting wrinkle related to the virus:
Prince Charles is 71 and has the virus. All hope he recovers. But at his age: not a sure thing.
The Queen, who is 93, remains alive at this time with no report of virus.
If the Queen should survive her son, it would be Prince William who would next become King, with Charles having waited all these years and then missing out!!
Frankly I think many Brits would be just as happy.
The Plus membership gets you 2% cashback credit too. I assume it’s hard for smaller households, but a $100/week average in purchases and the membership literally pays for itself.
Already pointed out above, but I need to add. How can you be so completely one-sided and totally blind? We can’t hand out billions of dollars in funds or loans to a corrupt politician (or the lackeys he appoints to “oversee” the program) and expect him to not self-deal. He hasn’t released his tax returns, he resisted putting his businesses in a blind trust (or whatever was the suggested and appropriate procedure), he gave government jobs and security clearances to his completely unqualified family members. It only makes perfect sense that they are all prevented from profiting from this bailout.
All of government are basically insiders and should be prohibited from trading on insider information or connections. And not only in this case, but in general.
