COVID and the local economy

[JonC]

I'm just wondering how the economy is going in different areas.

In the Augusta area I have not really seen anything slow down. In fact, we have had several cyber businesses (one my employer) to move to the area. We have had many restaurants and shops (mostly restaurants) starting up. The area was growing very well prior to COVID, so perhaps the pandemic had a slowing effect. But I have not seen much of an economic impact.

 

[Aaron]

13 Million More Girls Face Forced Marriage, Loss of Education Amid COVID Lockdowns • Children's Health Defense

 

[Scott Downey]

Not noticed a recent hard impact for myself in SEast VA, but then I dont go to places like restaurants or bars much.
Been harder on the wife as she teaches and has to accommodate those changes.
Biggest impact on me is I am forced to wear a mask going into stores.

 

[Salty]

Biggest impact on me is I am forced to wear a mask going into stores.

Is it because you cant or dont want to.

I am unable to wear a mask for medical reasons - thus I wear a face covering, and if no one is around - I pull it away from my pie hole.

 

[Scott Downey]

13 Million More Girls Face Forced Marriage, Loss of Education Amid COVID Lockdowns • Children's Health Defense

Sure is a lot of young girls getting married before COVID

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/child_marriage_20130307/en/

Child marriages: 39 000 every day
More than 140 million girls will marry between 2011 and 2020
Joint news release Every Woman Every Child/Girls Not Brides/PMNCH/United Nations Foundation/UNFPA/UNICEF/UN Women/WHO/World Vision/World YWCA/

7 MARCH 2013 | NEW YORK - Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39 000 daily will marry too young.

Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before they are 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15.

 

[Scott Downey]

Is it because you cant or dont want to.

I am unable to wear a mask for medical reasons - thus I wear a face covering, and if no one is around - I pull it away from my pie hole.

I also yank it off immediately when leaving a store, and only put it on entering the store.
Studies are out saying wearing masks increases your risk of respiratory infections.

 

[Salty]

I also yank it off immediately when leaving a store, and only put it on entering the store.
Studies are out saying wearing masks increases your risk of respiratory infections.

so why not use a face covering

 

[Scott Downey]

so why not use a face covering

My son in law uses that, just never occured to me.

 

[Scott Downey]

Is it because you cant or dont want to.

I am unable to wear a mask for medical reasons - thus I wear a face covering, and if no one is around - I pull it away from my pie hole.

People dying to breath wearing masks
MASK MANIA: Man on Airplane Struggles to Breathe | The Black Sphere

 

[Yeshua1]

I'm just wondering how the economy is going in different areas.

In the Augusta area I have not really seen anything slow down. In fact, we have had several cyber businesses (one my employer) to move to the area. We have had many restaurants and shops (mostly restaurants) starting up. The area was growing very well prior to COVID, so perhaps the pandemic had a slowing effect. But I have not seen much of an economic impact.

Really hurting here in MI, as our Gov been the queen of the lockdowns!

 

[JonC]

Really hurting here in MI, as our Gov been the queen of the lockdowns!

Thanks. I was wondering. I keep seeing things about CA and NY, but at the same time we've gone on (with precautions) without stopping the economy. The beaches did close down for a time.

 

[Yeshua1]

Thanks. I was wondering. I keep seeing things about CA and NY, but at the same time we've gone on (with precautions) without stopping the economy. The beaches did close down for a time.

We have been on no sit in services, or threatres, or basically anything since March! All drive thru service, such as restaurants or banks!

 

[Scott Downey]

We have been on no sit in services, or threatres, or basically anything since March! All drive thru service, such as restaurants or banks!

And it makes no difference to the spread of covid.
Out theatres are closed, busch gardens williamsburg closed, church is open, but have to reserve seats.

 

[Yeshua1]

And it makes no difference to the spread of covid.
Out theatres are closed, busch gardens williamsburg closed, church is open, but have to reserve seats.

We just went back to being open last Sunday, and what has been interesting is that the mask manditory meeting has average much less than mask optional one!

 

[kathleenmariekg]

Where I was and where I am have been heavy impacted in different ways, and conditions in neither place have made the news. I have lost all trust in the media. ALL trust!

I know what I see and hear. I trust the pictures being send to me, because I know those spots, and I trust that the people that sent them to me did not doctor them. I know enough to know that I don't trust the media.

I know that I don't know what is happening across this country.

 

[JonC]

We have been on no sit in services, or threatres, or basically anything since March! All drive thru service, such as restaurants or banks!

Wait....so you have not even eaten at a restaurant since March?

 

[Yeshua1]

Wait....so you have not even eaten at a restaurant since March?

Take out, order it pick it up and eat it at home

 

[kathleenmariekg]

I know many many people that have not eaten in a restaurant or gotten a haircut since March.

I know someone that works for a boss with a compromised immune system and everyone that works there cannot go to work for 2 weeks if they choose to engage in a long list of risky activities. People do sometimes need to take 2 weeks off and are often paid even though they don't come to work. They all look like 1800's Klondike gold miners, now. LOL.

When I went to live with my relative, for the first two weeks, everyone that came into contact with me partially quarantined themselves.

 

[kathleenmariekg]

I think most cities with mandatory face coverings have restricted restaurants punctuated by repeated long bans on indoor dining.

 

[Wingman68]

I'm just wondering how the economy is going in different areas.

In the Augusta area I have not really seen anything slow down. In fact, we have had several cyber businesses (one my employer) to move to the area. We have had many restaurants and shops (mostly restaurants) starting up. The area was growing very well prior to COVID, so perhaps the pandemic had a slowing effect. But I have not seen much of an economic impact.

The economy there is driven by the military. The military has been prospering under Trump.
The main hospital there is all but deserted, according to my sister. She went to see my Dad there. He had been there a week before they gave him a covid test, which of course was positive, but wouldn’t retest him after ‘treatment’ of expensive Remdesivir, the doc kept telling me the tests didn’t actually prove anything. My take is the test proved enough for them to get the covid reimbursement which is a lot more than they would have got from Medicare for his pre existing conditions. She said room after room was empty. She only saw a total staff of about 15 during her couple of hours stay. She said she felt like zombies might jump out at her as she walked deserted halls, coming & going. My Dad passed, at 94, from congestive heart failure, with no visitors allowed for his last days, but covid was listed ahead of heart failure, & another covid death that wasn’t, added to the fake numbers.
So, I would say the medical field is not recovering, & neither is the health of the people. Both are taking it on the chin for the ideological ‘pandemic’.
I saw a meme that nailed it, it said when you allow politicians to break the rules, due to crisis, they will then always create crisis going forward. Yup.