[Farm93]

I think this forum is getting infected with the alternative facts crew. Anyone who links to an article from "Alt-Market. Us" whose title is "America’s Economy Cannot Survive Another Lockdown, And The Cult Of The Reset Knows It" and talks about "globalists," "the great reset," "the new world order" and Biden's forthcoming plan to impose martial law is not genuinely curious, they're a conspiracy theory-pushing propagandist. Thanks for playing, but I'll take a hard pass.

We will all "enjoy" links like this for at least two years since the national GOP leaders will not be able to satisfy the social media cravings of those that yearn for conspiracy theories.  

FWIW - The deaths are not the full societal health cost.   The long hauler COVID survivors will ring up big costs over time.   Some of those survivors will require expensive pharmaceuticals, frequent medical tests and scans, ongoing counselling, and disability payments for years. 

Most can agree that it sucks that we didn't do the shutdown right.   At some point I am confident the USA will create a commission to note what SHOULD have happened.   It likely would quantify how much the federal government's COVID-19 approach cost the USA at the end of this pandemic in any of the metrics we often use as a nation when compared to nations that did a better job.   It presumably would consider lives lost, disabilities, health care costs, education deficits, fiscal deficits and/or economic growth.

It needs to happen because global pandemics will remain a challenge in the future.   We have to learn from this experience to avoid repeating it in the future.

To break it down, it essentially will ask how can we be more like New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and less like Brazil and Mexico for the NEXT global pandemic?

[Farm93]

I think this forum is getting infected with the alternative facts crew. Anyone who links to an article from "Alt-Market. Us" whose title is "America’s Economy Cannot Survive Another Lockdown, And The Cult Of The Reset Knows It" and talks about "globalists," "the great reset," "the new world order" and Biden's forthcoming plan to impose martial law is not genuinely curious, they're a conspiracy theory-pushing propagandist. Thanks for playing, but I'll take a hard pass.

We will all "enjoy" links like this for at least two years since the national GOP leaders will not be able to satisfy the social media cravings of those that yearn for conspiracy theories.  

FWIW - The deaths are not the full societal health cost.   The long hauler COVID survivors will ring up big costs over time.   Some of those survivors will require expensive pharmaceuticals, frequent medical tests and scans, ongoing counselling, and disability payments for years. 

Most can agree that it sucks that we didn't do the shutdown right.   At some point I am confident the USA will create a commission to note what SHOULD have happened.   It likely would quantify how much the federal government's COVID-19 approach cost the USA at the end of this pandemic in any of the metrics we often use as a nation when compared to nations that did a better job.   It presumably would consider lives lost, disabilities, health care costs, education deficits, fiscal deficits and/or economic growth.

It needs to happen because global pandemics will remain a challenge in the future.   We have to learn from this experience to avoid repeating it in the future.

To break it down, it essentially will ask how can we be more like New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and less like Brazil and Mexico for the NEXT global pandemic?