RochesterRob

It's like piping nitrous oxide through a breather because ya know the air has oxygen and nitrogen in it after all.

For a lot of people it will not be as simple as returning to their job. First, they need to see if there is a job to go back to. If you work at Del Lago for instance the place is closed per the governor's orders. Even if a place is open if the opportunity is not there for you to be productive odds are you will not be allowed to put hours in to draw a paycheck. When people are having to make hard choices with the funds they do have they may elect putting off getting tires replaced or having the propane heating tank filled. Less work for the people at the auto service center or heating propane supplier. There is going to be real economic pain for quite a number of people.

There are endless possibilities both good and harmful to employment. This will bring on society altering changes. We will see that we do not need teachers on the order of 1 per 30 students or whatever the current standard is. This will push the implementation of AI forward by two decades. The legal and medical fields perhaps the most affected.

Because the only antiauthoritarian groups are right wing????????? Honest serious question to you. How many Nazi's do you think are on this board? Myself, I think very few but you are the right wing conspiracy everywhere kind of .....guy.

Sadly, her district will return her to Washington for as long as she cares to be in Congress. When she gets down they will send somebody to DC just like her.

I was thinking of Aesop's The Ant and the Grasshopper.

It's not up to us citizens.

If I had to guess most people do not have two weeks equivalent of food in their homes. The trouble is quite a bit of our food is perishable. It can not be readied for the shelf weeks in advance. However, that should not be an excuse to not have an extra box of rice or pasta on your shelf. An extra box of cereal. A half dozen cans of vegetables and a half dozen cans of soup. My guess as of this morning states such as NY will be in "shut down" for a couple more weeks minimum. If some predictions of being shutdown until May 1 come true then look out.

You edited the first reply 49 minutes ago. Trudeau will make you turn your liberal card having multiple firearms. You hope that you will not have to use them but if times get real hard and people think that you have items of value then who knows.

I did not say that the causes would be the same but I wanted to cite an example of hyperinflation and its effect on the economy. Pretty sure before your edit that you said large sums of money implying more than what is needed based on need. Again, what will you do to protect yourself if your neighborhood descends into chaos?

Most businesses have creditors and often those creditors have people to answer to. It is not as simple as will power.

It would help my faith in the Chinese to let the Red Cross come in and verify these claims but we both know that will not happen. Might as well tell me that 99 percent of the public voted for their leader just like Putin and Lil' Kim claim in their countries.

The risk in shipping people large sums of money is that you get the Weimar Republic and hyperinflation. You were talking 20 percent unemployment and now you say 15 percent?

If all that happens unemployment will be well above 20 percent.

North America is not Europe and if the predictions come true the US has not had this kind of financial stress in quite some time. I believe that we have far less connection to society than in the 1930's so it would be far easier to do anti-social things such as looting. "The economy is going to be destroyed by the end of April." Your words, not mine. What do you think is going to happen when the economy is destroyed in approximate 40 days? Block parties? Also, if the economy is going to be destroyed by the end of April then how is it only going to be only crashed a couple of months after that? OK, again I would ask how you would deal with looters at your door. I assume that you do not live in a dumpster so even if it is just a laptop and a dorm refrigerator you have things of value. You don't seem like the kind of person to have a gun and if it is as chaotic as you suggest it is unlikely the cops will get there before the looters leave.

Because....................?

So, what are you going to do when the looters show up at your door? What is transpiring in California in terms of isolation and shutdowns?

People will have to reprioritize on expenditures. There will be fewer people buying a full size pickup truck just to be seen in it versus having a productive use for it.

I would suggest if it were possible to go out into the communities of WNY and survey people. Many have not had a pay raise in over 20-25 years. They watched their 10-12 dollars per hour that they were getting back in 1995 turn into minimum wage. I could go into Wegman's back in 1995, spend 40-45 dollars and live like a king for a week. 40-45 dollars to spend having to purchase juice, vegetables, etc. does not leave a lot for the meat dept these days. Gas was 1.39-1.49 per gallon in 1995. With crude oil "down" gas is 2.25-2.45 per gallon. A Chevy 3/4 ton 4WD extended cab was around 18-22K in the mid-1990's. Starting price today for a similar vehicle is close to 40,000 dollars. A Toyota Corolla back in the mid-1990's was around 10,000 dollars. Today that same car is 20,000 dollars or more.

A lot of people are hand to mouth through no fault of their own. People have health problems or somebody in their family does. Some have disabilities. Some are going to work a low wage job because that is all the skills that they have. Not everybody has the potential intellectually for an advanced degree.

As said before massive changes are coming in automation in areas unimagined before now. Patty and Selma will be getting their mandatory retirement notices soon. All kidding aside my experiences at the local DMV have been positive over the years.

Sunday update : Went for a follow up trip to Wegman's Saturday afternoon. Got a pound of 95 percent ground beef. 15-20 packages total in refrigerator case. Wanted chicken but only a couple packages of strips for stir fry. There were a half dozen packages of chuck roast so I bought one. Bought 1 gallon of milk and the limit was changed to one per sale. Toilet paper gone. Sitting at pretty much normal for the moment other than chicken. We'll see what next Friday brings.

No. I believe that you are working for a leftist think tank after you responded to an ad along the lines of "Work from home. Make 2-3K dollars per week............."

I was pointing out that in nearly all service sector jobs an employee can readily quit a job since you asked. The grocery store worker can quit even without prior notice though it is still proper etiquette to give two weeks notice. Only in cases of having an employee contract where short notice resignation is prohibited would prevent an employee from readily quitting.

Are you a contract worker at the laundromat?