Awaiting the scourge.

[Ray9]

The economic toll of the Wuhan virus may be as bad or worse than the physical damage. States that rely on income taxes will be especially hard hit. Millions have lost jobs that will be slow to return and many of those jobs will never come back. The restaurant and hospitality industries are already devastated and may just disappear in many cities as leery citizens avoid close contact, crowded venues and postpone vacations.

The deadly contagious effect of the pathogen will bring about cultural shifts catastrophic to tourism and the dollars that go to taxes in areas that already support an underclass dependent on benefits from that taxation. Cities and towns will have to make tough decisions that could eliminate funding, and this will lead to unprecedented surges in crime causing a fearful exodus of urban areas by taxpaying citizens.

Officials will try to raise tax rates on income, gasoline, property, cigarettes, and liquor but this will lead to wide resistance among those still working. Violent crime and murder rates will soar as fentanyl and opioid use increases. If a useable vaccine takes a year, an economic recession will be unavoidable. Some communities will become lawless and essentially turn into dangerous ghost towns.

That is just one aspect of the scourge; the rest is too scary to contemplate. Hold on, there is tough sledding ahead.

 

[Snouter]

The Kung Flu is the Deep State's final solution.

 

[Ray9]

Food pantries are already drying up and when people get hungry they get really mean.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-next-threat-hunger-in-america/2020/04/02/cde04dfa-7525-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html

 

[wamose]

Food pantries are already drying up and when people get hungry they get really mean.

That's true. That's why the people who really don't need that check should consider donating a portion of it to those food banks.

 

[Ray9]

Food pantries are already drying up and when people get hungry they get really mean.

That's true. That's why the people who really don't need that check should consider donating a portion of it to those food banks.

People are scared. They don't know when they might need that money for their own survival or to help their families. This is for real and it is not going to go away when the flowers bloom.

 

[Ray9]

I live about 10 miles outside the city. I have not been on Main Street since December when I got my car inspected. Downtown was once alive with outside tables for local restaurants. It has large theater built in the 1920’s when silent pictures were big entertainment. It has a huge luxury hotel in the middle of town.

A deserted college sits on the south side. Several elementary schools are empty. Public parks and recreation areas are increasingly policed to limit congregating human contact. This is not a tornado or a flood. This is uncharted territory.

How do you rebuild the essence of a town tethered to a time that will not return?

 

[occupied]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

 

[Ray9]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

Such a shallow response. One contemporary politician is not your enemy. What about all who came before that the set the table for the catastrophe? It was the bush's, the Clinton's and the Obama's that handed you over to the enemy. Not the guy that got elected take back the country.

 

[sparky]

Not the guy that got elected take back the country.

we just didn't expect him to take us back to 1937 Germany Ray

~S~

 

[kyzr]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

Stop with the bullshit. The regular flu, with a vaccine kills about as many as COVID EVERY YEAR, where was your faux outrage then?
Are we supposed to shutdown every flu season? If not, you're a hypocrite.

 

[occupied]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

Such a shallow response. One contemporary politician is not your enemy. What about all who came before that the set the table for the catastrophe? It was the bush's, the Clinton's and the Obama's that handed you over to the enemy. Not the guy that got elected take back the country.

Shallow? When life comes down to mere survival there is little room for nuance and excuses. The virus is about to run wild in Trump country and what passes for conservatism these days is about to show it's true colors.

 

[Ray9]

Not the guy that got elected take back the country.

we just didn't expect him to take us back to 1937 Germany Ray

~S~

Giving minorities jobs instead of welfare is 1937 Germany? Stopping borders from being overrun with cheap labor is 1937 Germany? I must have read the wrong history books.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

Such a shallow response. One contemporary politician is not your enemy. What about all who came before that the set the table for the catastrophe? It was the bush's, the Clinton's and the Obama's that handed you over to the enemy. Not the guy that got elected take back the country.

Shallow? When life comes down to mere survival there is little room for nuance and excuses. The virus is about to run wild in Trump country and what passes for conservatism these days is about to show it's true colors.

Is it? We see it running wild in blue states. The top 7 states infected are all lib states.

 

[sparky]

Shutting biz down is totalitarianism any way you paint it Ray

~S~

 

[sparky]

The top 7 states infected are all lib states.

Not mine, which is run by insane libs

so your model is, like most others...wrong!

~S~

 

[sparky]

Greasing the populace with socialist handouts as well nationalizing corporatism is>>> National Socialist American Workers' Party politics

~S~

 

[LordBrownTrout]

The top 7 states infected are all lib states.

Not mine, which is run by insane libs

so your model is, like most others...wrong!

~S~

The top 7 states infected are blue states. That isn't a model. That's whats occurring. Insane goes both ways. I see local, city, and state govts run by D's and Rs acting like little wannabe nazi dictators. They pass their orders to local law enforcement who are salivating and acting on the opportunity to smash that boot into the neck of the populace.

 

[Ray9]

Greasing the populace with socialist handouts as well nationalizing corporatism is>>> National Socialist American Workers' Party politics

~S~

You are using a standard method that is not very becoming.

comparing people to nazis - Bing

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

www.bing.com

 

[occupied]

The old and infirm have been judged to be expendable by the Trump cult and will therefore have to die for the economy. Sorry granny, saving your generation is just going to be too hard and cost too much.

Stop with the bullshit. The regular flu, with a vaccine kills about as many as COVID EVERY YEAR, where was your faux outrage then?
Are we supposed to shutdown every flu season? If not, you're a hypocrite.

If you think this is just like the flu you're a fool.

 

[kyzr]

Greasing the populace with socialist handouts as well nationalizing corporatism is>>> National Socialist American Workers' Party politics

~S~

You are using a standard method that is not very becoming.

comparing people to nazis - Bing

Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

www.bing.com

Actually that's called "Godwin's Law", when you bring Nazis into an argument, you lose.

Godwin's law - Wikipedia

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