Covid 19. Over reaction ?

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

You are always knocking the media. It's not perfect but it's our only hope of keeping up with the moment by moment events of the day. Covid 19 is much more potent than the seasonal flu and should not be downplayed. Without social/physical distancing we would see just how bad it could be. The hospitals are overwhelmed, emergency Army ships are brought into heavily infected areas and the Army Corp is building temporary emergency hospital units. Because of the efforts by our governors and the media giving factual information the disease may not be able to kill as many people and that's to their credit. But there is nothing overblown about Covid 19's ability to kill people.

I would love to be racing right now but there is no way in hell that I would risk the health of loved ones by potentially bringing this killer virus home. No way!

Bruce I fully understand your concerns. Right now I am not really concerned about racing either. I am more concerned about the long term health of the economy. Just for example. My wife works for a restaurant company that has locations around the country. They had about 2000 employees before the virus shut down. now they have only 100 still working. All of the others were laid off. This is just one small example. In the first two weeks of the shut down the company lost 2 million in business. There is a good chance that they might not weather the storm. Multiply this by millions of small business and you have a major calamity in just the restaurant business. I work construction and we are considered essential so I have been working everyday as normal. hopefully that will continue. during the last downturn the company that I work for went from 70 superintendent down to 20. Hopefully this wont be as bad but has to turn around pretty quick or the damage will be real bad.