How many of you face serious financial problems if this continues and are sick of people saying we need more time

A great quote from an Indian migrant on the trade-off between the viral impact vs economic impact.

“You fear the disease, living on the streets,” said Papu, a migrant worker in Delhi. “But I fear hunger more, not corona.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/world/asia/coronavirus-india-migrants.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

I am sick of people blaming the media for providing information as it come in.

be honest people!! wrote:

Are you self employed ,or do you run a business, or are you deeply effected by this virus? Are you in serious trouble of losing everything if this goes on much longer? AND ARE YOU SICK OF THE NEWS PUMPING THIS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID AS YOU SUFFER!!!

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

be honest people!! wrote:

Are you self employed ,or do you run a business, or are you deeply effected by this virus? Are you in serious trouble of losing everything if this goes on much longer? AND ARE YOU SICK OF THE NEWS PUMPING THIS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID AS YOU SUFFER!!!

I’m hurting financially big time because of the shutdown, I don’t understand why other people’s lives are more important than mine, this has been devastating.

preexisting condition wrote:

be honest people!! wrote:

Are you self employed ,or do you run a business, or are you deeply effected by this virus? Are you in serious trouble of losing everything if this goes on much longer? AND ARE YOU SICK OF THE NEWS PUMPING THIS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID AS YOU SUFFER!!!

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

How will you eat? I guess you don't have kids.

be honest people!! wrote:

preexisting condition wrote:

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

How will you eat? I guess you don't have kids.

Lives with his parents

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preexisting condition wrote:

be honest people!! wrote:

Are you self employed ,or do you run a business, or are you deeply effected by this virus? Are you in serious trouble of losing everything if this goes on much longer? AND ARE YOU SICK OF THE NEWS PUMPING THIS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID AS YOU SUFFER!!!

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

I've lost both.

Doing fine so far here.

Luckless wrote:

preexisting condition wrote:

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

I've lost both.

you still have us

be honest people!! wrote:

preexisting condition wrote:

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

How will you eat? I guess you don't have kids.

This country pays farmers NOT to grow crops.....pretty sure we can sort out feeding ourselves.

be honest people!! wrote:

ARE YOU SICK OF THE NEWS PUMPING THIS UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID AS YOU SUFFER!!!

I'll be honest...you sound like an a**hole.

Sean Hannity would say stop whining and follow his recommendation: "I don’t believe people are going to bed hungry. … For, instance I have friends of mine who eat rice and beans all the time. Beans protein, rice. Inexpensive. You can make a big pot of this for a week for negligible amounts of money and you can feed your whole family. Look, you should have vegetables and fruit in there as well, but if you need to survive you can survive off it. It’s not ideal but you could get some cheap meat and throw in there as well for protein. There are ways to live really, really cheaply."

be honest people!! wrote:

preexisting condition wrote:

I'd rather lose my job than my parents.

How will you eat? I guess you don't have kids.

Star wrote:

I am sick of people blaming the media for providing information as it come in.

What makes you think they're providing it impartially?

Let me guess, you checked an "impartial" fact-checking website.

The information superhighway hit its stride nearly 30 years ago. You can search and find empirical sources without the media's help. Try to keep up!

Right, this is completely insane.

People risk death every day driving to work. We do not stop the economy to protect people from car accidents.

The extraordinary majority of people do not have the financial stability to withstand this kind of interruption.

Mathematician wrote:

We do not stop the economy to protect people from car accidents.

We should! There are tens of millions of cars on the road! Millions of them could wreck and kill people.

rando odnar wrote:

Sean Hannity would say stop whining and follow his recommendation:

"I don’t believe people are going to bed hungry. … For, instance I have friends of mine who eat rice and beans all the time. Beans protein, rice. Inexpensive. You can make a big pot of this for a week for negligible amounts of money and you can feed your whole family.

Look, you should have vegetables and fruit in there as well, but if you need to survive you can survive off it. It’s not ideal but you could get some cheap meat and throw in there as well for protein. There are ways to live really, really cheaply."

be honest people!! wrote:

How will you eat? I guess you don't have kids.

Yeah, rice and beans and living on the street. Ok,lol...

I'll be fine but many people will not. Suicides, drug abuse, etc will be higher for years to come after this "quarantine."

Bad Wigins wrote:

Mathematician wrote:

We do not stop the economy to protect people from car accidents.

We should! There are tens of millions of cars on the road! Millions of them could wreck and kill people.

i enjoy the faux absurdity here. we absolutely should take cars off the road. possibly as many as 95% of vehicles should not be on the road. and itd take some massive adjustments to get us there, but there are many, many people in the world who probably reasonably believe itd be worth a long recession to get us there. which is really not like this situation at all, but for those of you having fun with the analogy, some bait...