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Turning the economic corner?
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 05:52:38 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote: On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 1:08:13 AM UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:42:38 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 9:00:23 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:02:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 6/5/2020 3:14 PM, wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 09:00:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Labor Department released numbers for May that surprised all economists and their dour predictions. Non-farm job increase of 2.5 million. Unemployment drops to 13.3 percent from 14.7 percent in April. (Predictions were for unemployment to rise to 19 to 20 percent.) Data is through the middle (12th) of May that included only the early stages of "opening" the country. Next month's data could be much better if this trend continues. How much of that is just people who gave up trying to get unemployment from a system that failed from the overload? I do hope it is real but until we are really reopened I am skeptical. I do understand a lot of businesses have found a way around these shutdowns tho. Construction and the service trades are going full tilt around here. I know my trade neighbors say they are staying busy. We are also starting to see restaurants open. I was in Rusty's the other day (sports bar, restaurant) and there were 20 customers inside at tables. They removed about half the tables and all the bar stools so people could spread out but other than that it was business as normal. Not a mask in sight. It is pretty hard to eat or drink with a mask on. LOL. This mask stuff really has your underwear in a bunch. Just the useless gesture aspect of it Unless I missed where you said you have an advanced degree in "pandemic virus transmission mechanics", you really have zero standing to proclaim it as being useless. You saying stuff like that reeks of being harry-esque. Just saying. I have spent many hours in classes about PPE. I do understand what masks are all about. If a bandanna loosely tied around your face is a mask, there is no such thing as a mask. A face covering worn by the public during this epedemic is not PPE. Maybe that's where your confusion lies. PPE is meant to protect the wearer. These face coverings are meant to slow the aerosols that are emmited by the wearer, helping to limit the exposure to people *around* the wearer. I suspect you, like some I see in public, simply don't like wearing a mask. I don't like fads and meaningless gestures. I wear a mask when it is PPE, not when it is a fashion statement. This started out talking about coughs and sneezes that travel "x" number of feet. When it was pointed out most of us are not coughing and sneezing, it started getting silly. Now the powers that be are admitting, if you are 6 feet away, you probably don't need a mask and they also say incidental contact is also not dangerous (passing someone at the Walmart). The transmission seems to be where people are on close contact for a long time, like sitting together on a pew singing hymns, sharing a sacrificial wine chalice and passing snakes around. |
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