The problem is that we are not allowed to even have the conversation.

Mar 23, 2020
3:51:54pm

buhlcougar All-American

Government policy should be a conversation about weighing the pros and cons of what that policy will do. Right now we cannot even have a conversation about the impact of the current policies because experts are extrapolating scary data.

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buhlcougar

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It’s unbelievable how the economic impact of this is being ignored.

antiyewt All-American

3/23/20 2:45pm

I think we're thinking about it plenty. I've seen tons of posts about this

Mayor of Cougartown

3/23/20 2:49pm

Massive failure by the government. Is anyone shocked?

Jericho

3/23/20 2:50pm

Doesn't seem like it's being ignored. Miscalculated or not prioritized right

SUAVO

3/23/20 2:50pm

Inslee honestly doesn't care about the small guys. He'll talk about how hard of

wabluecoug

3/23/20 2:51pm

The state can’t print money.

Brigham

3/23/20 2:52pm

It's unbelievable - the house is on fire - and people are worried about stocks.

ClackamasCoug

3/23/20 2:52pm

And losing a job. And losing health benefits. And unable to pay bills

BYUfan92

3/23/20 2:57pm

You should worry about stock prices.

antiyewt

3/23/20 2:57pm

Did you even read his post?

Kerbouchard

3/23/20 2:59pm

Attitudes like this are exactly the problem. It is possible to act INTELLIGENTLY

Kerbouchard

3/23/20 3:00pm

The virus is fire. The measures taken are toxic fire retardants.

ReyOso

3/23/20 3:08pm

Your stories of hardship are why this cant continue more than another few weeks.

JmThms

3/23/20 3:06pm

I understand what you are saying and agree it is not long term sustainable, but

kimdaddy35

3/23/20 3:06pm

There are a lot of options between "No measures" and Atlas Shrugged.

JmThms

3/23/20 3:10pm

Please stop fear mongering and saying millions would die

Jericho

3/23/20 3:10pm

We actually don't know the answer to this yet.

ReyOso

3/23/20 3:20pm

That is a WORTHLESS stat.

antiyewt

3/23/20 3:23pm

Fear mongering? Lol. Imperial college estimated 2.2 million deaths despite

kimdaddy35

3/23/20 3:37pm

23,000 out of 390,000

antiyewt

3/23/20 3:21pm

It is a terrible dilemma; save millions of lives or millions of jobs.

Archaea

3/23/20 3:31pm

I don’t think it’s either/or

antiyewt

3/23/20 3:37pm

Summer will almost assuredly slow this down.

kimdaddy35

3/23/20 3:40pm

Awesome, let’s do this all again in October!

antiyewt

3/23/20 3:43pm

That's another question that the experts and government have not answered.

buhlcougar

3/23/20 3:53pm

The problem is that we are not allowed to even have the conversation.

buhlcougar

3/23/20 3:51pm

I have seen the conversation on CB 1000 times over the past week

kimdaddy35

3/23/20 3:59pm

President Trump mentioned reevaluating at the end of 15 days and was immediately

buhlcougar

3/23/20 4:14pm

I don't have the data to make those decisions

kimdaddy35

3/24/20 2:24am

Who's the economic impact? I hear it talked about all day long and every day...

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