Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

John2290 said:
Lads. I don't think many of us will be getting to the sunny side of this one. It's too much all at once and too wide spread. Sure a country like China can handle but the global trade econony is going to be wiped out, it's interlocked to such a degree that countries will have way too much of one supply than an another and no where to sell it to if they can't find demmand in their own borders. It's already happening but when everyone is doing hard lockdowns it's finished. If they don't come up with solutions soon, like right this week to trade we're fucked beyond the virus and I'm not talking money here, I'm talking short term on the ground effects of supply and demmand. Someone is going to have to create an international emergency team to handle this and our governments are going to have to ration food for the months ahead, the more time they loose on this the worse the problem becomes because right now people aren't fishing, planting or selling livestock because the demmand, where it once was in these locked down countries isn't there any more. They are loosing time on this again like they did with the virua and now that they are so hyper focused on that it doesn't look like they are concerned about things like this two months down the road. How the fuck do you get producers to produce when they can't see a way of making their money back no less profit. How do you find a demmand within your own country for supplies that usually go to multiple countries of completely different cultures and how do you change all of the infrastructure to distribute that?
I'm sorry to say but I think we need some form of a one world government (Yes, I know but fuck it, what is the other solution, billions starving and a world of only nation states left?) to get through this and we need it fast.

What are you talking about? The demand for essential goods is not down at all. In fact it's actually up because of all those hoarders. Turns out people are still eating things. Agriculture is doing just fine and will continue to be fine because people will continue to need food. Same goes for water, electricity and internet.

You know how many people will be on the sunny side of this after we got the worst over? More than 90% of the population.