Governments can always just print money.

Yes, Zimbabwe and Venezuela are good examples

I really, really, really hope this was sarcasm.

The good old Mugabe solution.

Basel Stadt - 27 new cases.

oh noooooooo, you just invoked the Bitcoin weirdos

When I was in Zimbabwe, people tried to sell me "billions" of Zimbabwean dollars. I'm like yeah uhm thanks no, I know this is like 10 cents and will be about 1 cent an hour from now

Maybe not the ETH. But the USZ is developing an anti-Körper test, that looks promising. Apologies to anyone that can‘t be bothered to register for a free trial period on the TA:

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wie-zuv...s-201604237929

This is a fantastic example of media pushing you to think what THEY want you to think IRRELEVANT of what the actual research claims. Now, bear with me for a second.

Article title: Is coronavirus hitting young Americans harder than we thought?

A bit alarmist, makes you think, omg, this goes against what we thought. Then they cite a research paper. The DON'T QUOTE, they interpret the data for you. Now, when I was doing my PhD this would have been revise and resubmit. Let me QUOTE the ACTUAL RESEARCH (link is in the alarmist article you posted btw)

"...fatality was highest in persons aged ≥85, ranging from 10% to 27%, followed by 3% to 11% among persons aged 65–84 years, 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, <1% among persons aged 20–54 years, and no fatalities among persons aged ≤19 years.


Harder than we thought?!!? 1-3% and below 1%? C'mon.

Ok, back to my popcorn, your turn

October 2016, the UK performed 'Exercise Cygnus' to test the impact of a hypothetical pandemic on the UK. The results are still largely confidential, but it was decided that the measures that needed to be taken in preparation for an inevitable pandemic, were too expensive. Too busy spouting money up the wall on 'other issues'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Cygnus
Well it's not going too well in Alexandra, Guateng. OH's family business was in Kew, less than 4km from Alexandra, and he still follows IOL daily.
You can rebuild an economy. You can't raise the dead. Tough vs impossible.

And I mean this: https://www.france24.com/en/20200402...down-violators is also a totally reasonable approach. So lemme get that straight - in the name of "saving" people, you can shoot others? That makes uhm, yeah, a whole lot of sense. Not.



Come on. It's not like half the world population has been eradicated, and it very very likely wouldn't have been even if the world had not gone into shutdown.

Further, the large majority of those who pass away from this virus (or underlying conditions made worse by it) are > 75. How many of those are in the active workforce?

It also takes quite a bit of effort to rebuild an economy that has been shot to sh. And of course there'll be no money. So I guess good luck?

You think this is better?
Source

This. The state is us. If the state must pay something it means we must. If we can't, the state therefore can't. The government here is just the general manager.

Sure. You'll have to move though, won't happen here.

Baboon posted "40% of hospitalised patients under 55, and they are tending to survive"
How is this different from your post? It was not claimed young people are dying?

Italy has asked EU to hurry up and issue corona bonds.

A good vid of a leading Korean expert elaborating on COVID. Apparently, even though typically transmission occurs via droplets, the virus CAN get airborne if, for example, an infected person coughs or shouts or just talks loudly and the environment is dry (indoors in winter-early spring?) then projecting droplets dry up as they are flying through the air and shrink enough to be able to become airborne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7...ature=youtu.be

Article title: Is coronavirus hitting young Americans harder than we thought?

Article text suggests IT DOES

Actual linked research suggest, NO, IT DOESN'T

But then again, this is like football fans, it has become an emotional topic, not a rational one and i understand that rational arguments are not appreciated here. Again, apologies for crashing your party.

Of course it has. And next will be Spain, then France, and a bunch of others.

The EU is done now anyway though. Actually I guess that makes it even worse cause who will pay?

I really am not going to bother to explain one of the most basic of economic processes. If you don't understand that "just printing more money" is not an option, I'm afraid I can't help you.

By the looks of it by the time we start rebuilding the economy those saved from the measures will die anyway

"Imperial College London modelling, used to inform government, has suggested 500,000 could have died by August in the UK if the virus was left to rip through the population.

It also warned the government's previous strategy to slow the spread by asking those with symptoms to self-isolate and shield the most vulnerable could have led to 250,000 deaths.

Now, it is hoped the lockdown will limit deaths to 20,000.

But that does not mean 480,000 lives are being saved - many will die whether or not they get the virus.

Every year, about 600,000 people in the UK die. And the frail and elderly are most at risk, just as they are if they have coronavirus.

Nearly 10% of people aged over 80 will die in the next year, Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, at the University of Cambridge, points out, and the risk of them dying if infected with coronavirus is almost exactly the same."

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51979654

It has been for a while.

Looks like Sweden will not be but that's because I think they do not purposely let the public know about what will come up in 3-4 wks. It is transparent to me.