YOU GUYS OK WITH THE CORONA VIRUS/COVID19?

I guess the toilet paper craze is winding down. I went to my grocer last Saturday evening and there were pyramids of it stacked in the middle of aisles and bunched up against the Starbucks kiosk.

author=Addit
Canada’s trying to approve an 82 Billion Dollar relief plan right now (which is INSANE for this country) and just how are they planning to pay off that when CoVid19 either gets cured or slows down immensely in the future, raising taxes???

I wouldn't worry too much about the expense of relief bills. Currencies float freely in value against one another. If literally everybody on earth does a relief package, then everybody's expenses will rise in relative lockstep. Obviously there'll be size differences between, say, a US relief package and a Malta relief package, but that's the idea. The biggest downside will be a sudden increase in inflation without a corresponding rise in wages.
Well... the biggest downside would be uncontrolled hyperinflation, but I can't see us going there.

I'm more worried about the precedent of mass shutdowns, quarantines, and bailouts every time there's a "crisis". The coronavirus is a big deal, no doubt, but we have breakouts every year or two, and epidemics roughly every ten. If the relief packages prove a little too lucrative, will this become a going concern in years to come?
Probably not, but this is the stuff I think about at night.

IDK if this would be considered self-promotion or anything, but since people seemed to like my newest game's music (still don't know how it won that Misao!), I made a small remix single available for a $3 minimum donation to Direct Relief, which is getting PPE to healthcare workers in need of it. If anyone wants some tunes in exchange for their charity, you can check out a preview and see how to donate here!

The site doesn't accept donations larger than $10, which is why the instructions are a little convoluted. Sorry about that!

Well if she's recovered, then then the good news is she's immune now, right? Pretty sure that's how antibodies work. So once she's past the contagious phase, she can stop staying at home. Not sure how long that lasts though.

author=Aegix_Drakan

author=Dyhalto
I'm more worried about the precedent of mass shutdowns, quarantines, and bailouts every time there's a "crisis". The coronavirus is a big deal, no doubt, but we have breakouts every year or two, and epidemics roughly every ten. If the relief packages prove a little too lucrative, will this become a going concern in years to come?
Probably not, but this is the stuff I think about at night.

Considering the damage this did to the world economy, I'm not worried about these measures becoming commonplace. And hopefully we'll be better prepared next time so such wild measures aren't needed.

I actually now think that this is going to last so long that people are just going to get used to the quarantine and start pressuring the government to pass all the stay-at-home orders into permanent law, because there are illnesses almost as bad as COVID-19 all the time and "it's better to be safe." The rich people in power benefit from the economy collapsing; wealth is all relative, so as long as the poor people lose proportionally more than the rich people do, they're coming out way ahead. And that definitely seems to be the case, since everyone is basically just losing six months of income, so it's the people without savings accounts that are suffering.

Dyhalto has a point, the financial effects are going to make a big disaster it self. Of course peoples health and life are more important, but still..
Here in Sweden the government only says to people that stay home if you can, and wash your hands and keep social distance...
( high-school and higher schools works from distance(mostly) but not younger..(so we have not closed down totally here, but it`s hard for many factories because borders are closed in some countrys that delivers important things)
Aand i don`t know, Finland (70 something deceased only! ) , Norway, Denmark has much harder restrictions and we have at at least 10 times more deaths here.
Over 1300 deaths(and just over 11000 have the virus, but we don`t test much. And the numbers are insane if we compare to our neighborhood lands. As a side note i can say that yesterday 22 serious and trusted scientists went out to media and with sharp criticism said
that we are doing wrong(just look at the numbers) and some with power(the government) must stop the "experiment" https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/tegnell-forsvarar-sveriges-taktik1/
government has promised a lot more money to companies and people that loses their jobs( tens of thousands already), but i work in a relative small store and we nearly don`t make it(i work for half of my usual money) because we don`t get any money so here it is easy to talk and harder to fulfill that( except som airlines and bigger company, they maybe have some money help already).
Now have the corona coming to my side of town and 2-3 of my nearest friends have the virus,and their families but they are ok(so far) and of`course in quarantine. I will see the nearest day how i feel..
Sorry for a long post, it feels good to "talk" about it.

author=LockeZ
If you think the government is going to give back the rights they took away for "emergency protocols," you need to rewatch Star Wars.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-no-longer-a-democracy-report/

Yeah, last time a big crisis happened in Europe, it led to Fascism all over the place. I guess we're not quite over modern history yet.

I'm ok, but I'm very worried about the general situation in the world.

Looks like they found the cure: riots!

In all seriousness, be safe out there boys.

My province has basically flatlined the curve, only 1 new case the other day. That said it might come back, and we still have to wait for other places to fight back covid before returning to normal. It's been pretty relaxed here though.

author=Marrend
The county where I live is looking to go "Green" by Friday. Which translates to something along the lines of, "Yes, you still need to wear masks and practice social distancing. However, certain venues can now open at 50% client capacity".

Pretty sure "restaurants" are among such venues, but, I'm afraid I don't know too many additional specifics about what all can re-open (or otherwise allowed to become more active) with "Green" status.

You can go to quite a few places right now as long as you have a mask, a brick, and a crowd of people from what I've been seeing everywhere.