O/T:- The CV19 Legacy

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The poor who have to go to work often on insecure contracts are going to get poorer. The keyboard bound middle classes are going to escape the worst of it while actually saving money.
The public sector will cruise through this, the private sector will be in real trouble in some sectors.
Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Google , Facebook and Apple will become more powerful, our local home grown tax base will get hammered.
I don't blame the government for trying it's best to save the lives of the elderly and vulnerable, it's the opposite of the cliched heartless Tory narrative but the cost to our under 40s is disproportionately high and if this goes on its going to hit them for years to come.

[sidders]

The poor who have to go to work often on insecure contracts are going to get poorer. The keyboard bound middle classes are going to escape the worst of it while actually saving money.
The public sector will cruise through this, the private sector will be in real trouble in some sectors.
Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Google , Facebook and Apple will become more powerful, our local home grown tax base will get hammered.
I don't blame the government for trying it's best to save the lives of the elderly and vulnerable, it's the opposite of the cliched heartless Tory narrative but the cost to our under 40s is disproportionately high and if this goes on its going to hit them for years to come.

The same things were said about 'the boomer generation' coming out of the Second World War. The world was an utter mess and they would have to pick up the tab for years to come, commentators said. I was a part of that generation.
Because of good planning on both sides of the Atlantic in the years following the war, life took about 15 years to return to an even keel. The same could apply here - if governments come together.

[magpie_mania]

The poor who have to go to work often on insecure contracts are going to get poorer. The keyboard bound middle classes are going to escape the worst of it while actually saving money.
The public sector will cruise through this, the private sector will be in real trouble in some sectors.
Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Google , Facebook and Apple will become more powerful, our local home grown tax base will get hammered.
I don't blame the government for trying it's best to save the lives of the elderly and vulnerable, it's the opposite of the cliched heartless Tory narrative but the cost to our under 40s is disproportionately high and if this goes on its going to hit them for years to come.

'but the cost to our under 40s is disproportionately high'

Are you saying that more should have just been allowed to die then? Except it's not just the elderly and vulnerable. Try telling that to my friend in his 50's, no underlying issues, working for the ambulance service. Well he was but now he's in HDU.

There are already too many who have died, but if these measures hadn't been taken I hate to think where we would have been.

Incidentally, what would have been a proportionate cost in number of lives?