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I am just being realistic. Sorry if that bothers you.
Realism doesn’t bother me.I just think you moved the goalposts a little - from being against opening up because you don’t think it’s safe to being against it because you now think it won’t result in business as usual immediately (which I and everyone I’ve spoken to readily acknowledge). If I misinterpreted your remarks I apologize.
FWIW I am concerned about both. I have mainly been talking about the safety part because that is my primary concern; if we open too quickly, I envision a terrible fall and winter. I only brought up the business part because it looks like we are opening up sooner regardless of my concerns, so I wanted to express my opinion that many people are overstating the rebound that will come from reopening.Instead of me moving the goalposts, think of it as me changing my responses as the goalposts are already moving (the economy reopening before I think it should).I would LOVE to be wrong. I hope the second wave is smaller than I expect. And I hope the economy rebounds faster than I expect. Truly. I just can’t see it....
Nashville proposed a 32% increase in property taxes. Other municipalities will have to come up with ways to fill in gaps to their budgets through cuts or large tax increases. Likely new realities coming, but what to extremes in the COVID economy?https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495311-nashville-mayor-proposes-32-property-tax-hike-in-response-to-coronavirus
If either of these are unrelated to the topic, please remove:1. Why is it "okay" to bailout large corporations that are struggling due to the impacts of the virus, but not "okay" to bailout states that are struggling due to the impacts of the virus?2. I sincerely fear for the post-covid economy. When the country was stabilized following the recovery from the 2008 recession, we easily saw where the vast majority of resources/money ended up. I fear it could be even worse this time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-06/temporary-coronavirus-layoffs-are-turning-permanent-around-u-sEvery day that goes by, it's harder to see how the world doesn't burn down in a vicious cycle of evaporating demand and unemployment.
It is starting to be a US-centric problem. Of course the economic connections are global now, but many of the other countries in the world have started to get it under control. Us, not so much.
The coach of my son's 13U travel baseball team found a tournament going on in Pigeon Forge the weekend of May 23. Because of all of the cancelled tournaments this spring, he really wants the team to drive the 11 hours and go play in it. The reaction of the parents has been educational. We have the one family with the father who got it 4 weeks of feeling terrible but not hospitalized bad who are opposed. My wife is as negatively wound up as I have ever seen her and taking it out on me like it was my idea, because I am not in lockstep agreement with her. We have at least 7 families out of the 12 who are all for it.