AzScorpion
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Seems like a creative way to control the price of oil... not saying its right.I hate to say it, but it looks like the President is going to start some shut with Iran to draw attention away from this crisis..
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I just read this a moment ago. They found a 1/2 mile tunnel near San Diego filled with 4,000 pounds of drugs.Lot of talk about drug runners and Iran today too. ?
As hospitals across the country brace for an onslaught of coronavirus patients, doctors, nurses and other health care workers — even in emerging hot spots — are being furloughed, reassigned or told they must take pay cuts.
The job cuts, which stretch from Massachusetts to Nevada, are a new and possibly urgent problem for a business-oriented health care system whose hospitals must earn revenue even in a national crisis. Hospitals large and small have canceled many elective services — often under state government orders — as they prepare for the virus, sending revenues plummeting.
That has left trained health care workers sidelined, even in areas around Detroit and Washington, where infection rates are climbing, and even as hard-hit hospitals are pleading for help.
Another example of the failure of the "for profit" capitalistic health care industry.Didn't really think about this one.
During a Pandemic, an Unanticipated Problem: Out-of-Work Health Workers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-pandemic-unanticipated-problem-health-150355070.html
Another example of the failure of the "for profit" capitalistic health care industry.
My GF and I, during our daily walk, was talking about the possible changes. In most communities, the school department is the single largest taxpayer expense. If everyone is being home schooled, using distance learning, the internet becomes that much more important and school buildings, less so. All that real estate should be sold and repurposed, or turned into homeless shelters, or razed and turned into vegetable gardens . Of course, if people are working from home, businesses won't need to pay for office space. The commercial real estate market is going to go into the toilet in short order. Kids being home-schooled means that one parent has to stay home to teach the kids, while the other works from home. Working from Home means that people can spread out across the planet and stop piling on top of each other in densely crowded cities. Less work related traffic results in less green house gas emissions and curbs global warming. Less dependence on fossil fuels, less dependence on the Middle East and Americans can finally stop inadvertantly funding jihadists. Covid-19 seems to be a death sentence for the elderly. Watching the evening News, I've only seen one elderly person that was touted to survive and he was 104 year old WWII veteran. Can't be many of the greatest generation left. Even the Baby-Boomer generation, the generation that hoards most of the wealth in this county, is of an age where they are high-risk. All those 401k's and pensions that won't need to be paid out should help some industries. Maybe that wealth being passed down to descendents will help prop up the housing market where newly flush with cash Millenials and Gen Z will buy houses from the surviving Gen-X'ers.
Just thinking out loud, but the potential for change is endless.
Now that you mention it, I don't hear sirens either and it was two or three times a day. I don't hear any jets flying over from Portland to Boston and New York, the Amtrak Downeaster that runs by my house only has one run a day and no freight trains are running. People are actually staying indoors unless its to go out to get groceries or exercise.It's not really a failure of the for profit capitalistic health care industry. It's simply stating that because the hospitals can not do elective surgeries now that there's not a lot of money coming in.
Also something else I thought of was now there are so many either working from home or just being forced to stay home there are a lot less traffic accidents which intern means the hospitals are not getting these patients or the surgeries. I've noticed here that I rarely hear sirens like I normally do. I have a fire station very close by and normally hear it several times a day as they're responding to accidents,people here drive like idiots! I think I've only heard it once or twice all week. It is much nicer driving around lately without all traffic around here.
I think you're right about many large commercial building will affected by this because now employers are seeing that most can get their jobs done working from home which will lead the to downsize their office space.
The next couple of months are going to get interesting. Will the virus start to curve downwards or will it still keep spreading and we continue these lockdowns throughout the summer? I don't think the economy can't withstand the later and at some point we have to regain some sort of normalcy or it won't matter how many live as there will be any jobs to come back to.
They are laying them off here too.Didn't really think about this one.
During a Pandemic, an Unanticipated Problem: Out-of-Work Health Workers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-pandemic-unanticipated-problem-health-150355070.html