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That hasn't been my experience. We're still dealing with a very small portion of the population that is contracting the virus. Unfortunately it's still too many. But we have lots of people staying home (you can find many of them on this very board) or canceling get-togethers to say nothing of teachers and kids either working and learning from home or wearing a mask all day at school.
Can also be combo of indoor groups and workplaces that get lax, stores that must be open etc
It’s like Russian roulette....most people playing got the empty chamber, but some people who ignored the recommendations and chose to get together anyway for Thanksgiving are paying the price now. We are entering the time period where we may start to see the bump from that weekend. Generally takes a week or 2 to start popping and depending on how bad it is could extend a few weeks to a month further. Great present just in time for the holidays
It’s like Russian roulette....most people playing got the empty chamber, but some people who ignored the recommendations and chose to get together anyway for Thanksgiving are paying the price now. We are entering the time period where we may start to see the bump from that weekend. Generally takes a week or 2 to start popping and depending on how bad it is could extend a few weeks to a month further. Great present just in time for the holidays
My 401K is doing just fine...I just have to survive until retirement age
We had the same happen here. A family had a gathering a couple of weeks ago that included a couple from Toronto, which is a hot spot in Ontario, who had Covid. Since then a few at the party got sick including two on ventilators.
Just saw on the news that most hospitals and healthcare workers are looking at December 15th as the day they start seeing increases based on when positive tests and people needed to be admitted.
The breakdown in my head is ~20% resistance, ~20% can’t always (essential workers), ~30% compliant. Which leaves about ~30% in between, that floats to whatever side happens to be getting more attention at that moment. So if the message is stay home, more do. If the messaging and cases trails off, people get lax.
In your head?
I have no data, so I wanted to qualify that it is just speculation. What did you think I meant? I was trying to agree with the PP, that the die hard rule breakers aren’t as numerous as @danlb_2000 feared too.
No, that’s as good a place as any, I guess. My experience also is that most people are complying, although the percentage I pulled out of my head would be higher.
I am perplexed about the wall street numbers. No matter what, companies can't possibly be worth more now than they were before anybody ever heard of COVID. Except, maybe Amazon.
It does seem odd, but this isn’t a standard recession by any standard. I read an analyst report at some point and they estimated over 60% of the economy is either unharmed or slightly positively impacted by Covid. Of the 40% that is negatively impacted a large number of those companies are in the same boat as Disney where the they have very negative short term exposure but it has little impact on their long term prospects. There are a few industries deeply impacted but in some cases there‘s an expectation of government bailouts (airlines) or there are individual companies that are struggling but their loses are offset by gains from other companies doing better. I think there’s also a built in expectation of another round or 2 of stimulus money propping up the market.
Well, even rule breakers have learned there are some stuff they have to do. So during the worst of things, even in my head you have the 30% who normally comply, 30% floaters who are complying because that’s the message at the moment, plus some of the other two groups doing what they are able. So the sum total compliance would be high.
