“A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy.” Donald Trump, last week.
THIS...is the first time Trump has made a COV 19 statement with which I am in 100% agreement and which is factually correct. It is a shame that angry armed stooges and right-wing nut cakes are detracting from hard factual analysis. More a shame that trump tweets out support for them, ironically suggesting there be open disobedience to his OWN guidelines. But anyway, I agree with this:
[Trump] “A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy.”
Here in Florida, we are about 60-90 days away from a kind of ‘fail-safe’ economic point, where there will not be an economy to revive, even if COVID is in the rear view mirror. Without travel, international commerce, shippable agriculture, tourism...with all of that shut down, there will only be a shell left. It will take 10-15 years to even get back to basic operation. I will not see that in my lifetime.
Municipalities and small counties...even larger ones... have no ability to pay police, fire, garbage, utility and infrastructure costs, past another couple of months...especially areas directly dependent upon the industries I noted above.
Businesses that were marginal, start up, struggling, or on the normal roller coaster of feast or famine that is part of the tiny business.
60 to 90 days; like it or not.
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