The Economy Won’t Recover Until Americans’ Coronavirus Fears Fade

The Federalist ^ | April 14, 2020 | Christopher Jacobs

[Trump.Deplorable]

Thanks China

[rightwingcrazy]

More precisely, the American government.

[Jimmy The Snake]

I think the economy recovers just fine, but movies and restaurants will take awhile. Sports attendance has been off past few years and will not bounce back to pre-virus levels and the ticket prices are way too high.

My parents avoid crowds because of the Polio scare of the 1930s. We will have a lot more germ-a-phobes now, but everyone’s hygiene will improve and that is a good thing.

[Raycpa]

One of three things needs to happen:

1. A vaccine
2. A cure
3. Deaths stop

[The Pack Knight]

Americans’ fears are being fueled by the “stay home” orders. The only way to start combating the fear is to start reversing the orders.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The Democrats started and are maintaining the panic on this hoping to win in November. They own this one and all of the consequences that come with it. Ozymandias comes to mind again...

Ozymandiaschumer

I met a traveller from an antique land (Democrat Cities/States)
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandiaschumer, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Dilbert San Diego]

When we reach the time of an “all clear” being given out, by Trump and/or state governors, what will happen?

Will many people be afraid to go out to restaurants, shopping malls, concerts, sports events, or any other public places where people are crowded together???

Will people be gun shy about going to ball games with 40,000 people in a stadium?

Will people be gun shy to go to restaurants and bars where people are tightly packed in on busy nights?

Will people not want to go to the movies, same reasoning as other places ?

Will these sectors of the economy suffer anyway, because so many of their former customers lost their jobs because of the economic slowdown, and people put off non essential spending, even if they aren’t spooked about crowded places, will they still not go back to former routines of going places and spending money?

[JayAr36]

1. A vaccine, like the flu
2. A cure, like cancer
3. Deaths stop, like living

[sanjuanbob]

Did anyone read this FR article last night? Death rate is .1 very similar to common flu.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/13/study-coronavirus-fatality-rate-lower-than-expected-close-to-flus-0-1/

[Artcore]

Good luck with this! A fair number of American “men” (and I use that term loosely) have turned into pu$$ies!

[chiller]

Generally, blue state liberals will remain hidden under beds.

Red states will race forward.

Watch what happens in SoDakota. Gov. Noem is going heavy with HCQ in her little hotspot at the meat packing plant and will provide a valuable lesson.

For all intents and purposes we have a cure. 1/2 of all US deaths occur in nursing homes, fyi

[nwrep]

Please credit Percy Shelley here.

[DannyTN]

So I believe there are ways to do this and help alleviate the fears.

1. Get the new cases count down in the community. The fewer cases the saver it is to go out.
2. An effective treatment available quickly if you do get it. Knowing it's not likely to kill you or even land you in the hospital, is a game changer.
3. Everyone wears a mask. It's not perfect, but it reduces the particles spread into the air by the infected, and reduces the particles breathed in by the uninfected. This further reduces the risk of going out. But this needs to be mandated. Too many people on FR refuse a mask.
4. Continued social distancing using the 6 foot rule as much as possible.
5. Deep cleaning commercial establishments as often as possible.
6. Contact trace, test and quarantine each new case.

   The article is right. The economy was shutting down on it's own due to fears. The lock downs just got us all on the same page.

   The economy won't recover until people feel safe. So don[t try to reopen until the cases are down. It will fail, and it will cases increasing, further extending the necessary lock downs.

[SkyDancer]

The liberal MSM will milk the Wuhan Cooties for all it’s worth, will wring that rag dry before moving on to more Trump impeachment nonsense.

[Black Agnes]

A quick in office swab, like the flu swab is now.

Medication prescribed BEFORE you get sick enough to need hospitalization.

Medication prescribed so that even people who don’t get sick enough to need a hospital aren’t out of commission for 3 weeks or longer as happened to someone we know. Slept for 2 weeks, in excruciating pain for another week and then 2 MORE weeks of quarantine waiting for a negative test. That’s FIVE WEEKS home from work. Need a med that will shorten that duration drastically.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Please credit Percy Shelley here.

Yes, of course, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the un-edited version of that. I knew I forgot something...

[Rurudyne]

Democrats have nothing to offer but fear (envy, murder of innocents, perversions....).

[Hojczyk]

It went thru months ago...

We need to open everything no restrictions of an kind...

Well maybe restrictions in senior citizens living quarters and nursing homes

Your in charge or what you do not some IYI government official..

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Please credit Percy Shelley here.

Please affirm that the poem relates to the present day situation as the Democrats plan begins to unfold. Thanks.