Originally Posted by baseball

One could argue that due to improper health safe-guards in China that it was caused by poor government oversight of wet markets, non-inspected meat products, selling of house pets and exotic animals and animal parts as food items. The reason we have the USDA is to inspect our food products and to keep people safe.

Clearly, the Chinese don't have these standards. God isn't preventing the Chinese from having food and food safety standards as well as airborne virus prevention and blood borne pathogen prevention. Odd isn't it: China is a communist -totalitarian state. If they wanted to enact and enforce standards they could. If they want citizens to shut up and to disappear they can do that pretty well. having a frozen food section and a prohibition from selling dog seems easy.

A hurricane might be an act of God, but a preventable pandemic....I don't buy it.

Originally Posted by SlickMachine

I'm in this camp as well, I would expect furlough pay. Chinese people eating raw monkey buttholes and acquiring an animal virus is not an act of God - it is an act of an idiot.

Originally Posted by opheims

Anyone who tells you one person can't change the world...never met a person who ate under-cooked wild bat.

Originally Posted by massgflight

I’m gonna try to shift the mojo in this here thread. Bailout two (or whatever you’d like to name it) will come mid summer if/as needed for the industry. It will stake us through the one year mark.

Furloughs will be mostly avoided, LOA, SRL, ESRL and a push for more retirements will be modified and offered with each passing week or month.

We will recover but on the slower side as some wise folks have speculated. Just my wag as we move further through this journey.

Now, as long as we avoid war we should
Be alright.

Good luck to us all. Keep up the quarantini’s.

Originally Posted by Kung Flu Master

Furloughs are just the nature of this industry. It sucks but once you learn how to cope it’s ok. Find a 2nd career.