Plus, the difference between necessary and unnecessary contact. Child care is necessary, just like being able to go to the grocery. Play dates, sports practices....these are not necessary.
100%. I'd think May is an optimistic, but possibly unrealistic goal at this time.
Not saying this is the case with Landry's. My cousin does business with restaurants in Minneapolis and knows many of their owners. Many have decided to let their staff go immediately in order for them to receive unemployment ASAP.
Well the problem with some of the casinos is that they are on the hook to pay the states they operate in a set amount of money, if they are forced to close for business it doesn't remove that payment to the state. If you want them to go bankrupt then do nothing, but at the very least the states that have these agreements with the casinos need to stop collecting those payments... At least that is how it works with many of the Indian casinos... If you are talking only about Vegas casinos I'm not sure how they are structure with Nevada.
This virus was on the loose for a while before he stepped down. I mean, I knew about it through my clients before he left. When he stepped down I told my husband he knows it's about to come here and get bad. He doesn't want to deal with it. I think it's part good timing part seeing the writing on the wall.
There is no ventilator issue right now, that's correct. But if this virus continues at the rate that models show, then we here in the US will be woefully short on ventilators. That is simply a fact, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. Now, maybe we will acquire a great many more ventilators in the coming weeks, or maybe the models will prove to be wrong, or maybe the actions that we are taking right now will greatly reduce the spread, but none of that changes the fact that we will not have enough ventilators absent those things from happeneing.
It's the math and geography problem all over again. They just don't get it, and unfortunately I haven't seen an infographic yet that demonstrates it well or I would have shared it here already.
I work in IT supporting medical researchers. What you don't understand is that drug research protocols move through various steps and levels. They don't just conduct a test to see if the drug does its thing and if it seems to work, ship it. Usually after lab tests in animals show promising, they move to human testing. Human testing first starts out with testing different amounts of the drug on people and recording side effects and problems. They may do various combinations of drug dosage and ingestion methods. But they are only looking to see if the person tolerated the drug okay and if there are any side effects. They do record results, but only minimally. Its not until all the dosage/useage studies are finished that they do a study on actual results of the drug. They start off small, only a few people. See how it goes. They may adjust the dosage and start over. If it looks promising, they will do a bigger study and so on until they get to a large study. This is why they are saying a year.... Otherwise what could happen is that they test for results on a few people, get great results, start shipping the drug and after 1 million dosages, they find it destroys your liver. Now with the urgency of this crisis, they can do studies in parallel and other things to speed up the process, but it still will take time. The other thing that slows down this testing, is that this drug prevents you from getting it, not curing you after getting it. Its much easier and faster to see if a drug cures a disease than it is to see if a drug will prevent you from getting it. Prevention studies have to take time to see if you get the disease or not..... For ethical reasons, they can't expose people to the disease and see what happens. Our yearly ethical training makes that VERY clear.
