I don't know you, but you're obviously reading impaired. I care for people, but i'm not a damned panic drivin idiot like some on here. I align much closer to Wiley and Outback than some of you panty wearing sissies.

LOL!!!!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/april-...-unemployment-rate-on-record-11588514401

Yep, economy is doing great. But this is just one of them sources no one pays attention to, right.

I read zero hedge almost daily, our economy's underpinnings were in distress already. The FED has been pumping liquidity into the Big Banks for year or so. 100 Billion a month on average, there was even a few days where they pumped that much in a day.
The crazy way this all played out has really caused some long term damage.
I have an old friend, he went from being in line to run the place to being unemployed, the business literally closed up shop.
Another childhood friend that had a development in OB go bust in 09, he has another project in it's early beginning right now. He's still selling lots and building but who knows?
Another friend who's business profits is in the Spring season, now all that is gone.
I can go on and on.

I also know a few folks that died of Covid. I have friends that have friends that have died or been in an ICU for over a month.
Some folks I know have it and has been underwhelming at best.
Have a niece that is positive yet they won't test her husband, unless he runs a fever. Both are quarantined and should be released tomorrow I think. She has been a little tired and ran a fever for a day, other than that nothing.

I don't know if it's different strains, genetics, underlying conditions. It is more deadly than the Flu. How much and so forth is yet to be seen.
Large metropolitan areas appear to be hit harder yet others haven't been.

It definitely doesn't help that the MSM hates Trump and sees this as an opportunity to defeat him.

I feel for those that have lost their livelihoods and those that have lost their lives.

Just wait, the Lawsuits are being filed, that is gonna do a number on businesses too. Many may find it's best to lock the doors to avoid legal action.

"“I didn’t expect the recovery to be this fast,” said Iceland’s chief epidemiologist, Thorolfur Gudnason.

Iceland’s success reflects decisive action by authorities, who used a rigorous policy of testing and tracking to find and isolate infected people, even when they had no symptoms.

That has helped Iceland weather the pandemic without resorting to the social and economic shutdowns enforced in many other European countries. Infected people and their contacts were quarantined, but the rest of the population was not forced to stay inside, only to be careful."

https://apnews.com/b13115dba10ad0aa4f9e1f22a3403c3b

Total coronavirus deaths = 239,740
Flu deaths bad year same time frame = 277, 836

This is not about safety. It's about corporate backed state powers attempting to destroy small businesses, a test run on how much control the people will tolerate without bucking and picking targets for when the real run happens.

"Outside of popular supposition and media talking points, there is no scientific study which shows that lockdown saved any significant number of lives. Instead, new data strongly suggests quite the opposite."

Martin Kulldorff - Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/29/delaying-herd-immunity-is-costing-lives/

I could be robbing banks that carry large amounts of cash/liquid assets. I could be screwing the populace as a scumbag attorney. I could be doing any number of things that have minimal affects on the public and maximum effects on my amount of cash on hand. Only the very best could stop me if I set my mind to do a thing.

Instead - here I am trying to lend the third best research mind I know to the world to use to help themselves and others. I don't ask for or get much return for that.

I don't say I told you so very often.

Character matters. Class differentiates those who want to be a part of the world of betterment and those who are. Please pay attention - as long as I can, I will help. If some crackhead bops me in the noggin tomorrow - then I'm out. Same if I get squashed by a bus or similar.

"To put things in even more perspective, while Sweden has already suffered 2,586 COVID deaths in 2020, back in 2018 there were approximately 6,997 total flu/pneumonia deaths in Sweden – and the country’s healthcare capacity was not overrun, nor were any of their public systems stretched to the breaking point."

"You wouldn’t know it by listening to western politicians or mainstream media, there are also non-lockdown countries. They are led by Sweden, Iceland, Belarus, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Surprisingly to some, their results have been as good or better than the lockdown countries, but without having to endure the socio-economic chaos we are now witnessing across the rest of the world. For this reason alone, Sweden and others like them have already won the policy debate, as well as the scientific one too."

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archive...sTo7jl9rsOpiVE22NcFGmekFNURcXUgwHeu1dEbg

Ok then, I take it that your are #3, who are 1st and 2nd best research minds that you know?

So 2 years ago the flu wiped out 1/15th of their population, and there the ones you think we should be taking medical advice from. And if quarantine doesn't help how come a country like India one of the most pupulated countries in the world has less covid deaths than Sweden?

Hold up a minute....let me get this straight.....Are y'all saying that bama1971 is actually JBC????...

Well. Yes.

F**** quarantine and the shutdown of our economy. Y’all can go back to arguing numbers but there is absolutely nothing that I have seen on the news or in real life that has convinced me this was the appropriate reaction. Highly disappointed in most of our politicians and government officials for effectively knocking the American economy into the dirt which is going to cause long lasting pain on many hard working Americans.

Which is it?

Prediction: flu deaths bad year same time frame number continues to rise as does Covid deaths

Yep. Just like herpes and Hillary Clinton. Can't seem to get rid of it.

Colorado changes death count after calls for investigation.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...rus-death-count-from-more-than-1k-to-878

That damn covid done claimed another victim, now it's killing threads.