Nobody Wants to Open Up the Economy More Than Trump, but He is Going to do It Right!

LOL. Immunity schmunity. If liberty means there's a greater chance that Benjamin might catch his death of a cold, so be it.

 

Trump is not going to open anything. The Governors are going to decide what's best for the state that they govern. Governor DeWine of Ohio has said May 1 and I imagine that Indiana will do the same.

 

Do you really think that Democrat Governors like the V-P candidate in Michigan are going to pay any more attention to Trump than you yourself do?

 

Some say high heat and high humidity will stop the spread of the virus so warm weather should help. I think that Indiana could open up at the end of the week but our Governor Eric Holcomb is unlikely to act since the state capital Indianapolis is a hotspot.

You are lucky to live in a state that is re-opening. Do you think that home schooling will increase because of this pandemic?

 

Have you read the actual federal guidelines?
My senator e-mailed me a copy to read. It seemed both reasonable and rather conservative. Every 2 weeks of no increase in cases (or of a decline in cases) there is another step of lifting restrictions. There are some other criteria related to hospital capacity and guidelines broken down by “Individual”, “Employer” and “Government”. After the third step, only a recommendation for “social distancing” and a recommendation for vulnerable populations to voluntarily self-isolate ... which hardly seems reckless after 6 weeks of declining infections and deaths.

 

Do you think that home schooling will increase because of the pandemic?

 

You may be right. Because of high taxes many people have to have both adults working so no one is at home anyway.

On another note, I am giving up eating bat soup for good.

 

Grandma got run over by the reindeer in December but the State of Indiana reclassified her death as the Chinese flu because they can get $39,000 from Medicare for a flu death.

 

No.
I think that those that really believe in home schooling already are. I also believe that many parents and many children are not a good fit for home schooling ... they are the ones that cannot wait for school to reopen so they can end the confrontational interaction.

I do not know how things are in other state, but Florida has a strong e-school program that is great for students that can self-motivate and stay on schedule (or for students that have special needs and need a modified schedule). I think forcing all students to “virtual school” for a while might identify students that could benefit from the e-school program.

 

Here is a link to the White House/CDC guidelines “Opening up America Again”

 

The Government uses certain leading indicators like Construction and New Permits to forecast the future economic heath. As someone working in commercial A/E and Land Planning, this month’s contracts are next month’s work and the new permits for the month after that and new construction three months after that. So I get a 6 month peak ahead at the rate of growth in the business sector.

I just hope that “most people, in the real world” also realize that the economic damage is also real. While I will be the first to admit that NOBODY knows how bad it is, I can tell you that it is declining much faster than the 2008 crash. I can also tell you that people who were mildly concerned in 2008 are flat out terrified right now. Small businesses are fragile things and employ 70% of the workforce. They cannot survive paying rent and loans while not generating any revenue for weeks or months. The money allocated to help businesses in trouble is already gone. We have weeks left in this month and then many more weeks of a slow start.

It may, in fact, have been necessary. However I think “most people” are going to be surprised by just how high the bill for this really is.