No point helicoptering money until the shops open and people are back to the offices. I’m saving £150 on travel per month but probably double that on not buying coffees and lunches. (Yes, I could have packed lunches but I didn’t). We also haven’t been to a restaurant since Feb.
William MacDougall
3 years ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem, which is not lack of funds, but the forced closure of businesses. There is a case for compensating the firms the state has compelled to stop operating or to operate at reduced capacity, and the workers who’ve lost jobs as a result. But this is not demand management, but reimbursing government mandated losses. The rise in household saving has been more than matched by the increase in government dissaving (i.e. borrowing and printing money to finance spending), but in any case the problem is not lack of demand, but suppressed supply.
gumballsamurai
3 years ago
This is not the plan. The plan is for the oligarchs to consolidate nearly all wealth, power, and resources. This is necessary for “the great reset”. They will dictate the terms of our new life. Currently they are winning. The people are losing. Time is running out. This is “The Great Leap Forward”.
No, we need Tier Sweden. Or, even better, Tier Florida.
Apparently there are no more people dying than is normal at this time of year. Indeed, 19 fewer people died last week than in the same week last year!
It is simply that a few very old people – average age 82.4 – are dying of (or probably with) Covid instead of the normal flu or whatever. Meanwhile we destroy the economy and utterly ruin the last few weeks and months of people in care homes etc who cannot see their families. It’s not often that I would recommend a Nick Cohen article, but read his piece in The Spectator on this subject.
Last year in the week in question 1620 people died of respiratory illnesses. This year it was 1621 including covd 19. Is this now a mouse casting a big shadow? I’m no fan of Trump, he’s a bit of a loon but in March he made one very good statement….the cure can’t be worse than the disease. Excess deaths in the home are however a national scandal on the scale of care homes but will get almost no focus at all as it’s outside the narrative.
The point you seem to be missing here, Fraser, is that deaths may be the same as they were this time last year, but that’s with fairly severe anti-COVID measures (rule of six, two-metre distancing, masks) in place across the whole country and even more severe ones in various localities. If none of those measures were in place, there’s every chance the death rate would be significantly higher.
Don’t know about that Fraser. My local teaching hospital is so full it is closing down everything except urgent cancer treatment. They are filling a ward every week with Covid patients. That’s not a few old people! With treatment they can save a lot of people who are mostly younger. Doesn’t mean the illness doesn’t exist.
No point helicoptering money until the shops open and people are back to the offices. I’m saving £150 on travel per month but probably double that on not buying coffees and lunches. (Yes, I could have packed lunches but I didn’t). We also haven’t been to a restaurant since Feb.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem, which is not lack of funds, but the forced closure of businesses. There is a case for compensating the firms the state has compelled to stop operating or to operate at reduced capacity, and the workers who’ve lost jobs as a result. But this is not demand management, but reimbursing government mandated losses.
The rise in household saving has been more than matched by the increase in government dissaving (i.e. borrowing and printing money to finance spending), but in any case the problem is not lack of demand, but suppressed supply.
This is not the plan. The plan is for the oligarchs to consolidate nearly all wealth, power, and resources. This is necessary for “the great reset”. They will dictate the terms of our new life. Currently they are winning. The people are losing. Time is running out. This is “The Great Leap Forward”.
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No, we need Tier Sweden. Or, even better, Tier Florida.
Apparently there are no more people dying than is normal at this time of year. Indeed, 19 fewer people died last week than in the same week last year!
It is simply that a few very old people – average age 82.4 – are dying of (or probably with) Covid instead of the normal flu or whatever. Meanwhile we destroy the economy and utterly ruin the last few weeks and months of people in care homes etc who cannot see their families. It’s not often that I would recommend a Nick Cohen article, but read his piece in The Spectator on this subject.
Last year in the week in question 1620 people died of respiratory illnesses. This year it was 1621 including covd 19. Is this now a mouse casting a big shadow? I’m no fan of Trump, he’s a bit of a loon but in March he made one very good statement….the cure can’t be worse than the disease.
Excess deaths in the home are however a national scandal on the scale of care homes but will get almost no focus at all as it’s outside the narrative.
The point you seem to be missing here, Fraser, is that deaths may be the same as they were this time last year, but that’s with fairly severe anti-COVID measures (rule of six, two-metre distancing, masks) in place across the whole country and even more severe ones in various localities. If none of those measures were in place, there’s every chance the death rate would be significantly higher.
Indeed!
Don’t know about that Fraser. My local teaching hospital is so full it is closing down everything except urgent cancer treatment. They are filling a ward every week with Covid patients. That’s not a few old people!
With treatment they can save a lot of people who are mostly younger. Doesn’t mean the illness doesn’t exist.