[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?

[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

[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.

[Rurudyne]

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

[americas.best.days...]

I forsee years of people out in public bitching and fighting with each other because someone gets too close or coughs wrong or No mask etc.

And many old people will just not go out as much out of fear, leading to a decline in health.

Pitiful.

[glennaro]

Oh, after a month of a taste of totalitarian control the fears of the Chinese Flu virus are fading, and fading quickly as more and more data come in. The “tsunami” of recovery is still a ways out to sea (just a typical wave over deep ocean), but it is slowly accelerating toward the shore and will build in magnitude quickly should there be further delays and particularly if there is significant resistance to starting and implementing America’s social and economic recovery. (Please indulge my love of analogy — particularly visual analogies — with the tsunami reference). Although weakened by events over the past month my optimism has returned and is strong! Please join in ... it’s quite refreshing!

[Pox]

I noticed a major uptick in drivers heading to work this morning.

People are figuring this out for themselves.

[caww]

Oh I think people ‘want’ to be back at work and will do so when their place of business opens. The desire to return has clearly been seen and heard by people within communities with fewer cases of Covid....which are most areas throughout my state of Pa....... exceptions would be the areas in and surrounding Philadelphia and Montgomery County who have 50% plus cases and deaths of the entire state.

[dhuls]

#OUAN Open up America Now!!

[MinorityRepublican]

We should give the all clear on May 1st. Cruises and sports events will be last to return. (June 1st?)

[shanover]

China and the American left: "That was easy!"

This America in 1941 would have had Japan and Germany slicing America in half turning it into a carcass.

If the Soviet Union knew then during the Cold War what the Chicoms know now,they very well may have tried a biological attack.

Maybe even Bin Laden would try such an attack with 1900 infected.