Jose Scott3 said:No way. Not happening. At most, a month after cases hit zero.
Maybe you can explain how Ebola outbreaks—which is way more contagious, by the way—actually manage to get under control within 3 months?
Short and sweet: get lost.
The budget situation isn't nearly as dramatic as you're making it out to be.
Just so you know, besides the medics, military, police, and firefighters, there are plenty of other people in public institutions showing up to work instead of staying home. You want to cut them down to minimum wage too?
From your first word to your last, this whole post sounds like "Small Business Revenge Part 2" or some cheerleader nonsense for the elite.
What they should really do is implement a single, flat salary for everyone in government and public service based on the average wage in the US. That way, politicians and those bureaucratic hacks would take a temporary pay cut, while the police, firefighters, nurses, and the rest would actually see a temporary raise.
Look, Ebola is definitely more infectious through direct contact, but it doesn't hang around on surfaces nearly as long, especially if things stay dry or get hit by sunlight. The incubation period is much shorter, too, and the number of people who carry it without showing any symptoms is negligible, assuming they even exist. Essentially, the Ebola virus is so aggressive that its own lethality actually works against its ability to spread.
On the other hand, when you're dealing with an incubation period of up to 14 days, you could have a young family of five where everyone gets infected one after another. The last person could potentially be infectious two months later, all while nobody shows a single symptom, leaving you completely unaware that the virus is circulating. Your only real option would be to run constant testing on the entire population, and then you could justify taking that one-month buffer from the last positive test, but let's be honest, that's just not feasible. Sure, the statistical probability of a single asymptomatic family chain reaction is low, but as the total number of infected people rises, the mathematical likelihood of at least one such household existing becomes much higher.
vividranger8 said:So, a few days ago, I headed out into the mountains where the only thing I was likely to run into was a bear. And honestly, that was the whole point—just to stay as far away from people on the streets as possible...
That isn't exactly responsible behavior either—just look at how many interventions the US Census Bureau had to make because of people thinking exactly like you.
Jose Scott3 said:Nah. Biotech sector. We have zero connection to the social sciences.
If by Academy you mean HAZU, I'm totally with you.
How do I know they weren't directed at me? Because with his proposed measures, he basically called me one of all those "state and public administration and institution employees."
Let's be real, that guy Miroslav didn't call for a "lynching of bureaucrats" just to stir the pot and score political points; he actually wants to slash the pay of everyone working in public institutions.
No one in the private sector deserves to stay in business if they can't survive on their reserves after years of operating.
Like, for real, my old man is a small business owner, employs a handful of people (somewhere between 5 and 10, I think), and he's going to pay them minimum wage for the next three months himself without firing anyone, simply because he values his workers and knows things will normalize eventually.
A business owner who can't pull that off shouldn't even be in business—if you can't maintain a surplus for a few months when things get weird, you're failing.
Once this madness ends, that guy will restart production and hire the same people back. But us in the public sector, who didn't land our jobs through the Party, no force on earth is going to get us back to work if we get fired like > suggests.
Not like those scumbags in the restaurant industry driving BMWs and whining about layoffs, only to bring those same workers back in a couple of months once the epidemic passes.
Give me a break. I’m not paying your bills. There's a massive crowd in the public sector living off EU funds. And yeah, some of that money flows into the healthcare and social safety nets for both you and me.
Actually, no. Just like every other guy on this forum, you're lumping all public employees into one big bucket. In our country, science and higher ed are already paid way below what they should be. If we start slashing everything to minimum wage and handing out pink slips, those are the people who are going to get screwed first.
I didn't realize the National Archives was busy solving real-world problems, like finding cheaper drugs, developing new medical procedures, boosting crop yields, genetic engineering, new pesticides, energy storage tech, coding crisis management apps, renewable energy, robotics, and stuff like that.
Reminder once again: you and your buddy are treating all public workers like they're the same. Chill out. Public servants don't deserve minimum wage pay or layoffs either.
That all makes sense in theory, but in this specific situation, those savings won't save you if your contracts get canceled or if you simply can't collect payments from clients. Those reserves are meant to help if a company can't operate for a couple of months OR if a crisis hits, but right now, both are happening simultaneously. In the end, restaurant owners might actually take the smallest hit because customers will flock back the moment they're allowed to, whereas companies that are only indirectly affected will end up feeling the brunt of it the most.
