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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. Consider this scenario for the sake of discussion......
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:21 AM
Apr 2020

tRump pressures red state governors to loosen restrictions on businesses, which they will almost certainly will do. Many companies will thereafter pressure employees to return to work without due regard for safety or face firing. Companies of all sorts will have to remodel their process methods to even function for any amount of time.

Red state companies will start cut-throat wars of competition just to stay open and increasing the temptation to increase health risks. Red states will then see a secondary rise in infections.

Thereafter, pressure will mount on blue states to ease restrictions even when it's not safe.

That scenario will work only on a limited basis because red states need blue state participation in the supply chains. Because of that, I don't think our nation can return to anything resembling normalcy until California and New York in particular, are back on their feet.

Regardless, it's going to be a brutal reboot.

Our states are not islands.......

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