Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

Ka-pi96 said:

Nautilus said:

Oh, I didn't know that every single country had the money to do so.Guess those estimates of the world economy going down 5% or 6% is nothing to be worried about.

My bad, I forgot that every country in the world is a developed one, that has trillions of dollars in the reserve, just for emergencies like this one.I'M SO sorry.And here I was thinking that said governments are just looking out for it's people so that they don't spend all of it's money on a disease that will be cured by the end of the year and has no money to help it's people in other aspects, like social security, health care, it's economic health and so on.I really forgot about that.I'm sorry.

Well the people protesting are from a developed one, so the others aren't really relevant to the topic. Although even if you do want to talk about 3rd world countries it's well worth remembering that the governments of those countries are often incredibly wealthy still. So the people should be protesting about shitty governments in those countries regardless of any virus...

Besides, if countries have decent social security and health care then people don't even need to worry about losing their jobs due to lockdowns, since the necessary security nets are already in place. And good governments would be doubling down on that too. I know Macron has proclaimed that "not a single French person will go bankrupt from this".

You really have no idea what's going on, do you?

Just as a side note: It's not like Politicians keep their word, do they?Macron can't do shit if their economy tanks.If a company wants to fire someone, they will.I'm not french, so I can't vouch for what's happening there(and France is a developed country with a good economy, so while they will take a big hit, it's not like it will break the country) but with the economy recession comming, you bet your ass that there will be alot of companies downsizing and going bankrupt because of this.

But let me give you an example of which I know: Brazil.It's a developing country, but not the one in the worst situation compared to other similar countrie.I already know for a fact that the number of people that have been fired because of the lockdown is already above the 1 million.And we are months away from all this situation from ending.

So if a country that wasn't on the shit like Brazil is already like this, imagine what Argentina is going through.Or Venezuela, or Eastern Europe.Or Africa.Or Asia.

If even the developed countries are already registering these kind of number of people losing their jobs, imagine the rest, and you come to me and say that "If a country has a good health system, it dosen't have to worry about it's economy", then you really have no clue, simply because every single respectable economist is saying that we are going to go through a very rough time.Or are you trying to undermine Trump, just to get a hit on him, and like all the idiots, trying to make this a political topic?