RobertSul

You’re right, that’s also a really bad result. When comparing the crappy elements in both cases, it’s the lesser of two evils and hopefully more liquor stores will end up delivering, if they don’t already.

Alcohol Withdrawl can be a serious and even life-threatening acute disorder, definitely not something you want tens of thousands of people going through at the same time, which would then lead to an additional strain on our hospitals. The lottery provides funding for our schools and should be moved to online. Fast food drive-through is a quick, easy, cheap, efficient way to provide food for people who don’t have cooking at home as an option, especially those working extremely long shifts at hospitals, first-responders, etc.

There are people who rely on medicinal marijuana to ease their suffering, and these “pot shops” provide curbside and delivery just as restaurants do. The lottery tickets on the other hand should be done online and last I knew this was being looked into.

Necessities are necessities are necessities. The less people going to stores looking for non-essentials, the less people this’ll spread to. Imagine if just one person with COVID, who only wanted to buy garden supplies and wouldn’t have been at the store otherwise, spread it to you, only for you to spread it to the disabled vet you’re caring for and his elderly parents. Gardens can be re-planted, dead people can’t be revived.

Impoverished people are less likely to have consistent access to things we take for granted like sanitizing wipes (If you could only afford them or necessities like food on any given day you’d go with the food), are more likely to work in fast food/convenience stores/grocers where they’re underpaid and are in constant contact with the general public, rely more heavily on public transportation, have less access to amenities in the house so boredom would invariably draw them outside, and poorer nutrition which leads to hypertension/diabetes. That’s on top of limited access to healthcare. It’s really disheartening and one can certainly see how all these factors combine to form these tragic numbers. As the most powerful (economically and militarily) country in the world, we really should be doing better. Capitalism is great and has given us a bevy of inventions and luxuries, but runaway capitalism without checks and balances, where the ceiling expands at a seemingly exponential rate while the floor essentially stays the same, is very problematic.

Not to mention warm weather on its own will likely draw a lot of people out.

‘Should be’ and ‘what is’ are two entirely different things.

According to the new cases/new deaths sorted listing, Alabama ranks pretty low. I guess I don’t see why they’d be worse off than anywhere else at this moment.

That number is skewed because of the many new cases over the past several weeks. Any time this virus hits a new place, the deaths outpace the recoveries for a short period of time before the trend sharply reverses. It’s just happening in a lot of new places right now.

I read that December 23rd was when the virus was first noted as novel and spreading, and Hubei closed down January 23rd. That’s a little over 4 weeks, with a brand new virus that they certainly didn’t have the data then that we have now. As you very well know, closing down a province that has a larger population than California couldn’t be taken lightly with the limited information they had then, and WHO had even commended China on its swift response. I am by no means saying that China’s censorship and suppression aren’t problematic (they very well are), but in this case you’re looking at the situation with 20/20 vision, with the knowledge you possess two months after Hubei’s closure. By contrast, when this virus entered our shores on January 21st, it wasn’t until 2 months later that states started sheltering in place, and there still aren’t any wholesale traveling restrictions (at least that I’m aware of).

I’m skeptical that my house will set fire, so I don’t have fire alarms or extinguishers.

Because we’re not all going to be stuck at home indefinitely. The 80% (but likely lower since it’s UP TO 80%) is probably over a span of like 18 months or so.

There’s nowhere to evacuate to because people just stay home (a lot of the chaos before a hurricane comes from everyone trying to leave at once), and how would this affect people with lost incomes anymore than they’re already being impacted? Besides, there’s legislation being worked on to help people in need.

Did Detroit ever diversify its economy? I feel like I heard rumblings about it ten years ago but don’t know about any hard numbers.

I think part of that might be that high profile people have a higher chance of traveling globally, and likely shake a lot more hands than the Average Joe.

We really appreciate your effort and hard work!

This is a virus, not bacteria. And Australia, where it’s summer, along with tropical Singapore, have cases coming in.

There was no Federal plan as to what to do with all these people coming in Internationally.

Right, Italy being a prime example of what happens when the government doesn’t react fast enough.

Please share your gift of clairvoyance and inform us what the death toll will be in two months and whether any of our immediate relatives will pass on, since this is just starting up for the rest of us.