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My cousin (a small business owner of a welding / fabrication shop) made a FB post about how 2 weeks of shutting down wouldn't fix anything. My dear mother made a comment that "they" have crashed the economy, "they" are trying to take over health care, "they" are shutting all of these business down. A lot of the sky is falling IMHO. Which leads me to ask who is "They" and what business are "They" really shutting down?
When I asked her to explain what business are being shut down, the easy answer is of course "bars and restaurants". OK, bars and restaurants are subject to the Department of Health. And from what I have seen in GA at least is either restaurants with drive-thru are simply closing their lobbies, or people are not showing up to eat so they are laying off workers. I've seen reports about local governments saying bars must close but I am not convinced that is enforceable.
So what else I asked? Hyundai and the other auto manufacturers! But wait, they are private business that are choosing to shut down internally. The government isn't making them do anything.
Well cruse lines and hotels. No. These are again private businesses. Like the restaurants (for the time being), it is that invisible hand of the market, peoples choices not to travel which is doing it.
Well there's the air lines. True, foreign travel is shut down by the federal government to help limit the spread into the United States.
And don't forget "They" have destroyed the stock market! Well again, "They" haven't done anything. The value of the stocks is based singularly on peoples faith and companies returns. If you're young the stock market day to day should not manner. If you're old, you should already be moved towards lower risk.
Well this is all to prove the government should take over all medicine. *Sigh* how? Either hospitals will be over run or they will not be. If the number of 3 hospital beds per 1000 individuals is true, then yes there is a problem, but only if that many people need to be hospitalized. And the government didn't make those people sick.
Don't forget the stores are completely sold out of toilet paper, and... "They" again is the populations deciding to panic. You don't need 6 months stock of TP. Personally, I keep a months stock of food on hand anyway. A 2 pound bag of rice and a couple jars of peanut butter, cans of chili and tuna fish go a long way, especially if you only consume what you actually need. And no one has suggested the interstate system be shut down. Trucks are delivering to stores every day.
My final points are this: There are so many things you truly don't have control of. I think most of what we have had going on is people over reacting to the perceived loss of control that they never had to begin with. The unseen hand of the markets, nature, the environment, the ocean, lions on the plains of Africa, your eventual death, you truly have no control. "They" don't exist and their is no one to blame. Read up on stoicism. Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" is a great place to start.
When I asked her to explain what business are being shut down, the easy answer is of course "bars and restaurants". OK, bars and restaurants are subject to the Department of Health. And from what I have seen in GA at least is either restaurants with drive-thru are simply closing their lobbies, or people are not showing up to eat so they are laying off workers. I've seen reports about local governments saying bars must close but I am not convinced that is enforceable.
So what else I asked? Hyundai and the other auto manufacturers! But wait, they are private business that are choosing to shut down internally. The government isn't making them do anything.
Well cruse lines and hotels. No. These are again private businesses. Like the restaurants (for the time being), it is that invisible hand of the market, peoples choices not to travel which is doing it.
Well there's the air lines. True, foreign travel is shut down by the federal government to help limit the spread into the United States.
And don't forget "They" have destroyed the stock market! Well again, "They" haven't done anything. The value of the stocks is based singularly on peoples faith and companies returns. If you're young the stock market day to day should not manner. If you're old, you should already be moved towards lower risk.
Well this is all to prove the government should take over all medicine. *Sigh* how? Either hospitals will be over run or they will not be. If the number of 3 hospital beds per 1000 individuals is true, then yes there is a problem, but only if that many people need to be hospitalized. And the government didn't make those people sick.
Don't forget the stores are completely sold out of toilet paper, and... "They" again is the populations deciding to panic. You don't need 6 months stock of TP. Personally, I keep a months stock of food on hand anyway. A 2 pound bag of rice and a couple jars of peanut butter, cans of chili and tuna fish go a long way, especially if you only consume what you actually need. And no one has suggested the interstate system be shut down. Trucks are delivering to stores every day.
My final points are this: There are so many things you truly don't have control of. I think most of what we have had going on is people over reacting to the perceived loss of control that they never had to begin with. The unseen hand of the markets, nature, the environment, the ocean, lions on the plains of Africa, your eventual death, you truly have no control. "They" don't exist and their is no one to blame. Read up on stoicism. Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" is a great place to start.
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