@TheopetraRECT I've worked in the mortgage industry for years. I have first hand knowledge how the banking system prospers off the little guy. Look at an amortization schedule. You're lucky to pay 20% of your balance in 11 years. This is innovation the middle class needs to get ahead.
@StarTribune Why didnt we focus on isolating those this would likely impact the most first? The human toll is incalculable. We as a society cant live in a bubble. This bug wont go away. It wont stop. We'd all need to be in isolation for 18 months for that to happen.
@StarTribune Just wait people, life as we all know it is getting worse and worse every day that ticks by.The real body count might be after this actually passes. Shutting down any private business should be the last resort after exhaustive measures are taken.
@StarTribune Homelessness. Quality of life for EVERYONE affected for a very very long time. Not to sound insensitive to the severity of this, but not one serious virus has ever crippled our healthcare system and yet we have them every couple years.
@StarTribune And this is just the beginning. Shut us all down much longer, and watch countless jobs and businesses disappear. Unemployment skyrockets. Depression skyrockets. Foreclosures and bankruptcies skyrocket again. People fall into despair. Alcoholism and drug use goes up. Suicides.
@PhilMackey When this is done, if it lasts much longer, we'll have 20%+ unemployed and countless businesses closed. Suicides, people turning to drugs, depression, hopelessness, and sky rocketing crime. Our government overstepped here, and will not be to bail this one out
@PhilMackey Good communicator, and shows solid poise. However, is ANYONE remotely concerned about the toll this is going to have on the economy? Anyone?! It is shaping up to be Biblical, and I cant help but think is this response really warranted.
@PhilMackey However, the flu wipes out 650k worldwide yearly. What do we do, nothing. Grab a shot, or not, and move on. Simply perplexed how we can really afford to do this. This bug wont stop, wont go away, and will be back once it does.
@PhilMackey Nothing can survive that, not even a virus. Nothing EVER in the history of this country has caused our government to stop life on this level. Nothing. Wars, terrorism, threats of bombs or nuclear war and countless other viruses. I am not insensitive to death. I understand this.
@PhilMackey The numbers on this aren't remotely close to the flu, or even worse, Ebola - among others. Our quality of life and the overall human toll will be staggering - especially when no commerce is left, no jobs, and a debt pile to the moon. We dont live in a bubble, and cant.