Bloomington bars/restaurants lost Little 5 and graduation money entirely. My neighbor used to be a manager at Nicks, he said how those two events gave restaurants the money to make it to September. They now will lose 8 weeks of students, some of it during B10 basketball for the bars. I think we will lose more.
The government could easily pay 100% of rent until April for restaurants everywhere. With that covered, they might well make it until the vaccine.
when this all hit last winter/spring, i immediately said it was going to be with us much longer than others were thinking, and that the key to the recovery once this did pass, was how financially intact Joe Worker and Joe Small Business Owner was at that point in time, and laid out the best way to insure everyone came out of this not financially decimated.
and everyone here couldn't spit in my face enough.
then i laid out that there was one, and only one, way to hold down deaths once it was obvious that many refused to mask or distance, which was to keep the at risk universe separated from the non at risk universe, and that the key to that was the govt financially and logistically enabling so.
and everyone here spit in my face for that too.
as beyond incompetent and heartless as Trump and others in govt have been, i can't help but see total and complete idiocracy everywhere i look. (of course, being able to distinguish idiocracy from malevolence isn't always easy).
we could be looking at far less economic damage, and far less deaths, even with much of the stupid and self absorbed population refusing masks or distancing.
we knew our "rents" economy was the economic obstacle, and flat refused to strategize around that.
we quickly learned who healthwise was at risk, and who wasn't, and flat refused to strategize around that game changing discovery as well.
incompetence, malevolence, and idiocracy, have ruled the day.
