War or no war this covidiocy has cost a lot of money all around, a lot of loss and a lot of not able to earn. No problem for the government though they can make as money as they want. Maybe someone will make a C19C coin, (covid nineteen currency), and we can all use that to pay off all debts accrued during covid 19 crisis.
I am surprised that the UK is okay with having a strain of the Wuhan virus named after them since it is I guess not correct to call it the Wuhan Virus any more because it upset a few million people to have their town and country associated with the virus.
Hey, @bashadow.
Yeah, the feds certainly can. The states can't, though, and that's where these decisions have been made to stay open or lockup. That is, until January 20, when the new administration takes over. Then, it sounds like, we'll have federal mandates that Oregon's governor and legislature will have no problem following whatsoever, unless it's less restrictive, of course. :)
re: UK
I don't think they are happy about it. I saw a headline that leads me to believe they find it unfortunate. At any rate, it did originate in Wuhan. I don't think that's ever been strongly disputed, and so it doesn't really matter. Of course, they don't want responsibility for it. That might be an admission of guilt which could lead to reparations or compensation for their actions.
In this day and age, who wants to deal with that? :)
I don't know about federal mandates other than the state of Alaska is good at telling the Feds no as in the case of the federal mandate no-kids-left-behind fiasco of bush, and the federal highways mandates the state ignored. I just hope that our state, (Alaska), keeps telling the feds to piss off when mandates are stupid ones.