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Mik

Scaramouch Scaramouche will you do the fake news-O

jon-nyc

@jon-nyc said in The Rebound:

We won’t see a V recovery.

Even if there’s a treatment breakthrough.

I don't think we can avoid it if jobs start back up. The unemployment drop was so very precipitous, it will go up pretty sharply but not as high as it was. Overall GDP will not recover nearly as fast.

I don’t see how consumer confidence returns until the virus is beaten.

Horace

@89th said in The Rebound:

Like the 89th key amirite

lol

Axtremus

If we rush the re-opening too much, the risk for a "2nd wave" goes up, then the economic recovery will not be V-shaped.

xenon

Then it’ll make a backwards “N”, then a “W”, and 2020 growth will be “0”

New World Order confirmed.

Copper

@Axtremus said in The Rebound:

If we rush the re-opening too much, the risk for a "2nd wave" goes up, then the economic recovery will not be V-shaped.

What does too much mean?
What does risk goes up mean, up to what?
How will the recovery be shaped?
The recovery for the whole world or just select locations?

Horace

I'm beginning to get the idea that most covid hawk arguments are non quantified and non quantifiable noises made to indicate that the noise maker thinks the other side just hasn't thought things through well enough.

Rainman

Could we pin this topic, so we can look back on it to see who was right? I'm having a good laugh as I read all this.

My prediction: it will go away faster than anyone thought possible, the vaccine will be developed earlier than anyone thought possible, and the economic recovery will be rapid and astounding, as people are chafing at the bit to get back to work and pursue the American dream. Those that were laid off will have enthusiasm for working again, and will start buying again like crazy. And, they will try to buy USA stuff, not Chinese.

Along the way, no fingers will be broken, although there will be many tired fingers, given all the finger pointing over the next year.

jon-nyc

Nobody on this board has spent more time quantifying arguments than me.

Horace

Well I said most. You have done an admirable job in your deep dive into the numbers.

Horace

@Rainman said in The Rebound:

Along the way, no fingers will be broken, although there will be many tired fingers, given all the finger pointing over the next year.

And all the frenzied typing of "I told you so"s.

Axtremus

That’s from the weekend of May 23. Maybe it will be fine.

jon-nyc

At least it’s outside, but still, they looked pretty damn close. It didn’t look like a camera trick.

Mik

@Horace said in The Rebound:

@Rainman said in The Rebound:

Along the way, no fingers will be broken, although there will be many tired fingers, given all the finger pointing over the next year.

And all the frenzied typing of "I told you so"s.

The thing that will truly rocket up is hindsight

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