Desert Hound
DA
You don't work your entire career in gov, advance and not be an institutionalist. He would never have gotten to his position otherwise.
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Desert Hound
DA
Ever notice that your default position is basically the gov position or the status quo?
Desert Hound
DA
"A little more than a year after Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the lockdowns, nearly a third of California restaurants have closed permanently."
I guess takeout didn't sustain them eh @dad4 ?
"According to The Associated Press, California’s lockdowns have left the food industry battered and bruised in the Golden State. Prior to the pandemic, up to 76,000 eating and drinking establishments employed up to 1.8 million people. Those numbers dropped precipitously as the lockdowns continued throughout 2020 and into 2021. Though the state has eased restrictions over the past few weeks, about two-third of the industry’s employees lost their jobs at least temporarily and employment remains a quarter below what had existed prior to the pandemic."
These are people/biz that didn't get a paycheck from the gov to sit at home in the basement wearing a mask by the way.
I guess takeout didn't sustain them eh @dad4 ?
"According to The Associated Press, California’s lockdowns have left the food industry battered and bruised in the Golden State. Prior to the pandemic, up to 76,000 eating and drinking establishments employed up to 1.8 million people. Those numbers dropped precipitously as the lockdowns continued throughout 2020 and into 2021. Though the state has eased restrictions over the past few weeks, about two-third of the industry’s employees lost their jobs at least temporarily and employment remains a quarter below what had existed prior to the pandemic."
These are people/biz that didn't get a paycheck from the gov to sit at home in the basement wearing a mask by the way.
That was a question, not a position statement.
I find it interesting, but not surprising, that you would find Ben Shapiro "compelling".
Desert Hound
DA
Yep and your questions always takes the point of view of the status quo or the gov position interestingly enough.
Without knowing the proportion of restaurants that would fail in any "normal" year, it is hard to judge the significance of that fact. This helped a little, but didn't directly address the question --
2019 Small Business Failure Rate: Startup Statistics by Industry | NBC&S
2019 was a great year for some small businesses, but not for others. Learn everything you need to know about the 2019 small business failure rate.
www.national.biz
That's an opinion without supporting data.
My original post on this line of thought was from the guardian. Interesting too?
I think his default position is more to nitpick other's arguments instead of providing any substantive evidence of his own.
Fact checker.
As for not providing substantive evidence, I just posted a link to a study of the rate of small business failures.
Yeah he thinks it makes him look clever. He's taken pride of bragging about doing the same in other forums in the past. Sad.
Bragging?
You haven't answered my question about Fauci's emails, so I will assume the answer is "no". Therefore you are relying on someone else's opinions about them. Is it fair to ask who that is? Is t Ben Shapiro?
He seems to take the "throw the baby out with the bath water" approach, if he can disparage the author or the source, or chip away at some immaterial element of the story then he's "won" the debate.
Comparing covid era restaurant closures against trend lines is just good analysis. I have no idea how the comparison works out, but it is absolutely a good way to look at the question.
What you did in the above post was to ignore the argument and instead attack the person. Again.
Dad4
For your benefit:
www.dailymail.co.uk
For your benefit:
Australia's economy is now STRONGER than it was before Covid-19
Australia's economy has rebounded much quicker than expected after growing a massive 1.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year as strict Covid-19 restrictions have been eased.
I'm not a part of that argument. I'm making an observation based on an observation watfly made about what the modus operandi for him is. As ou know, I have an interest in such things. People interest me far more than numbers.
Dad4
For your benefit:
Australia's economy is now STRONGER than it was before Covid-19
Australia's economy has rebounded much quicker than expected after growing a massive 1.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year as strict Covid-19 restrictions have been eased.
Counterpoint: but the cost....everything is a tradeoff
An old philosopher once said that when you tell a lie about someone, that person knows right away that you are a liar.
I haven't read all the emails. I have read article and twitter posts, both left and right, from a variety of sources about them. Know you don't believe it but my reading sources range from the Guardian and Nation, to New Republic, to Washington Post, to National Review, to the Federalist and Ben Shapiro.
"We're all victims of our own hubris at times"-- Kevin Spacey.