HockeyDad wrote:Heck, I’m just trying to legitimize Cbid news posts. I’m looking for a hard number so I can quantify whether the stay at home crowd or the open up crowd got it right. It sounds like the best answer I can get is nobody knows. Well we’re just going to have to find out! At least we know the hard numbers of the economic damage.
May be I should shift money to Missouri or Wisconsin and not wait for Florida. The real trick is getting out in front of all the Wall Street REITs.
No one giving you economic numbers is giving you accurate numbers either. Since we don't know what the economic impact of this pandemic would have been without stay at home orders.
Hell... without stay at home orders, even if we only had the exact same number of infections and deaths, do you think the economy would have been humming along at the same pace? Do you think people would have been going out to eat at restaurants and bars at the same amount?
You're dreaming if you think it's a binary choice of what we have, and some fantasy where the economy is fine, but some increased number of people die. You can't tweeze the two apart. Like I said earlier, even though our state is open, many businesses are choosing to continue as if it weren't.
As TW has said before, we're possibly opening early, so we may get the added extra sexy bonus of the first economic hit, PLUS the hit from the disease spreading extra fast. We'll see... It'll be exciting.