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|    Intelligent Party to Intelligent Party    |
|    Re: 82,500 New Cases 7/13/2020, 100,000     |
|    15 Jul 20 10:27:25    |
      XPost: fl.politics, houston.politics, tx.politics       XPost: alt.abortion, talk.abortion       From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com              On 7/14/2020 10:05 PM, Intelligent Party wrote:       > On 7/13/2020 11:56 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:       >> 50% Increase in New Cases, every 10 days.       >>       >> My unscientific, ad hoc (educated) guesstimation...       >>       >>       >> The 150,000 could come much faster. This is up up and away.       >>       >> We know stay-at-home works.       >>       >> 2,000 new cases per day in California before stay-at-home abandoned before       5/30.       >> 8,000 new cases per day in California now, in 6 weeks.       >>       >> We cannot continue stay-at-home without government money.       >>       >> Moving around = social distancing.       >>       >> It's sitting in one place, especially indoors, that gets someone infected       with       >> COVID.       >>       >> Work, commercial parties, restaurants, barber shops, nail salons, public       >> transportation.       >>       >> Unless you "catch cold." Even at the gym, you MOVE AROUND while in it,       compared       >> to sitting at one place in a restaurant, at work, or at a party, breathing       the       >> virus in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out.       >>       >> Employee protections matter. You can't employee people to commit self-harm.       >> Commerce is exploitation, but instead of prohibition, we proceed as follows.       >>       >> We deserve a forbearance on all old rent and debt, and $1,250 per month for       every       >> man woman and child. Or else we have to go socialist, figuring there will       never       >> be a vaccine, nor an eradication of COVID, and have no forbearance, and       default on       >> the properties now, and have $2,500 per month for every man woman and       child, you       >> can finance $200,000 in home equity, with 100% LTV, and no work       documentation       >> required for such loans, $1,250 per month. Eradication would require 3-4       months       >> of no new cases per day. There has been no vaccine for HIV in 40 years,       yet they       >> have vaccines for the new flu frequently, how does the flu compare to       coronavirus,       >> study that.       >> If there is never any vaccine nor eradication, we are loosing time waiting       for       >> either, and how long should we wait before going in a new direction? 1.5       years?       >> That is 1.5 years lost. Should we not move in a new direction       immediately? So       >> $2,500 per month for every man, woman, and child. All employee protections       are       >> based on extreme discouragements, and advisements, NO GESTAPO LAWS, but       work from       >> home if you can. Make your own decisions. Coronavirus is never going       away. ALL       >> EMPLOYEE ADVISEMENTS. ALL CONSUMER ADVISEMENTS, likewise. Advertising,       Marketing,       >> Product Labeling, Advisement.       >>       >> Consumer protections matter.       >>       >> The minimum wage will be $2,500 per month after taxes additionally, and       after you       >> make a certain amount $60,000-$200,000+, you pay the $30,000 free money       back. More       >> than a flat tax, a flat amount. Also at a certain point we have a 75%       Federal       >> sales tax, to encourage everyone to hold the capital. 70% wouldn't do       that. But       >> 80% would make them maybe not care enough about their capital. The $2,500       will       >> vary across the nation, by the County, and be 65% per capita GDP of the       county,       >> both for the free money from the government, and for the minimum wage.       >>       >> The $1,250 or $2,500 shall be sent in T-Bills or Bonds. If the bonds aren't       >> converted cash, there is no effect. So, for people without bank accounts,       we will       >> have to send registered bonds. The registered bonds will be transferable to       >> book-entry bonds, or cash. The Fed will guarantee to buy all the free       money bonds       >> for sure, and if the Fed wants to sell bonds, it will sell other bonds.       >>       >> As to the forbearance, you know, if the tenant can't pay the property owner,       >> because they don't have revenues due to COVID; a movie theater, a department       >> store, are not going to be rented out to another tenant, who are not going       to earn       >> revenues either. A restaurant or nightclub, and the property owner won't       be able       >> to rent and pay their mortgage to the bank. The bank could be left holding       >> possibly worthless property anyway, or just land. Also, other companies,       such as       >> airlines, you know, the idea was, an economic pause, COVID might be       eradicated or       >> vaccinated against, and then those airlines could start right back up, and       not       >> have to build the company from scratch, and other such companies with debt       >> payments can go bankrupt, and fold, escalating, like dominoes, more       unemployment,       >> less revenues. Plus, just general unemployment, people could have a stay       on their       >> mortgages, and on their rent or else renters be not able to pay rent at       all, or       >> spend down their savings, and then not be able to pay rent, while passive       incomes       >> are earned by landlords and equity owners who don't do anything, as rental       >> payments and interest on debt, and the banks earn revenues and may pay       dividends.       >> But I guess if we go with this $2,500 plan, then there is $1,250 to pay       rent; and       >> you should get out of that rent as soon as possible, and buy $200,000, and       the       >> rental properties will be converted into for sale housing or hotels. And       you can       >> get a job and earn more, and buy a nicer home.       >       >       > So the forbearance would go for 4 years, then we decide there will be no       vaccine       > (nor eradication), and COVID is forever. Really 3.5 years is what that is,       but 4       > years covers it. Those businesses could just bounce back. Otherwise, the       bank       > cam be left holding worthless properties, and you're saying we should just       raze       > the movie theater today, and use the land for something else?                     So we loose 4 years if we do this.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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