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I have a feeling people are not gonna rush back to fly, go on a cruise or go anyplace crowded for a while after reopening.
FAKE NEWS!Everyone should read this entire article. If you can't see it, let me know and I'll paste the entire thing.
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus (Published 2020)
An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.www.nytimes.com
The I.M.F. predicts the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
The International Monetary Fund issued a stark warning about economic damage from the coronavirus, saying on Tuesday that the global economy faces its worst downturn since the Great Depression as shuttered factories, quarantines and national lockdowns cause economic output around the world to collapse.
In its World Economic Outlook, the I.M.F. projected that global growth will contract by 3 percent in 2020, an extraordinary reversal from earlier this year, when the fund forecast that the world economy would outpace 2019 and grow by 3.3 percent. This year’s fall in output would be far more severe than the last recession, when the world economy contracted by less than 1 percent between 2008 and 2009. A 3 percent decline in global output would be the worst since the Great Depression, the I.M.F. said.
“As countries implement necessary quarantines and social distancing practices to contain the pandemic, the world has been put in a Great Lockdown,” said Gita Gopinath, chief economist of the I.M.F. “The magnitude and speed of collapse in activity that has followed is unlike anything experienced in our lifetimes.”
Ms. Gopinath said that the loss of global output will be “far worse” than the 2008 financial crisis and that policymakers are facing an unusual predicament in that traditional stimulus measures are little match for a pandemic that is being fought with shutdowns and quarantines.
“It is very likely that this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression,” she said.
Considerable uncertainty remains, she noted, as the health of the economy will be dictated by the trajectory of the virus. If the pandemic persists into the second half of the year, the contraction could be twice as severe and the anticipated rebound in 2021 could fail to materialize if additional waves of the virus spread later in the year. Over the next two years, the pandemic could shave $9 trillion from global gross domestic product or G.D.P.
Tentatively, the fund projects growth to rebound to 5.8 percent next year.
In 2020, the I.M.F. projects that growth in the United States will fall by 5.9 percent. In the Euro area, growth will fall by 7.5 percent, led by steep declines in Italy and Spain.
Unless your Governor bends the knee to Gavin and you get some sort of provisionary pending application to the Western States Pact I'm thinking you should focus on Corpus Cristi.If I can fly somewhere to surf this summer, I still have my job, and I can get the time off, I sure as f--k will be flying to multiple places to do so. If we're banned from Mexico in Summer, West Coast in Autumn should do nicely.
You want a piece of the Sharkbiscuit?Unless your Governor bends the knee to Gavin and you get some sort of provisionary pending application to the Western States Pact I'm thinking you should focus on Corpus Cristi.
Sept 4th 2027, my fighting Gators will be reporting to Berkeley. Trigger warning; there will be 4 quarters and 40-something points of macroaggressions on whatever the f--k a Golden Bear is.Let's stay professional here, this is state politics not personal. I'll rely on Kento to negotiate some strategic loses from various FL football teams. Alternatively, It'd be a shame if Dooley field became a kudzu breeding ground. Would also be a shame if FL launched a unilateral attack on Myrtle Beach.
SoCal all full up with people from Iowa who came to see the Hawkeyes put 50 on the Condoms, and stayed for the San Diego "winter"?I think everyone would be happier if Floridians skipped California entirely and went straight to Oregon and Washington. It would probably be an even more seamless transition for them to go straight to Wasilla where Palin ensured the meth supply lines are intact.
And the best part of all would be watching Floridian transplants yell "Go Dawgs!" at the start of each Iditarod.
We usually require Monte Kiffin to deliver that level of defensive prowess.SoCal all full up with people from Iowa who came to see the Hawkeyes put 50 on the Condoms, and stayed for the San Diego "winter"?
Yeah the USC defense has had the same authoritative presence as Manti Te'o's girlfriend and Trump's infrastructure week.We usually require Monte Kiffin to deliver that level of defensive prowess.
Not a fair comparison. USC defense actually existed, it just laid back and gave it up. Te'o's girlfriend would have to exist to even do that much. Unless you're referring to the Leprechaun?Yeah the USC defense has had the same authoritative presence as Manti Te'o's girlfriend and Trump's infrastructure week.
WEST IS BESTI am on the Integration Committee for the Western States Pact.
We are presently accepting applications for amnesty visas from those in the Outer Lands desiring to join us.
Many of you have already been permanently banned from that process and for some of you that are currently within our Zone of Power deportations are pending but . . . for a select few your applications will be viewed favorably.