Thread: Changes on the High Street
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Old 16-04-2020, 20:36   #327
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Nonsense. We need more Government support for small businesses to get coronavirus right, get it wrong and we just get more lockdowns and greater economic impact for longer.

Have you been in a school classroom lately? No way to impose social distancing or ensuring adequate hygiene with a shared bathroom facilities. Let alone hundreds of kids pushing through corridors every hour or so to their next lesson in high schools.

Schools aren’t going back til September. The sooner the Coronavirus deniers accept that lockdown is here to stay and stop dangling pseudoscience around as a justification the better.

Businesses going under presents an opportunity though - oversupply of retail space should see the price fall, and business rates will reduce to encourage this. Time to make the Amazons of this world pay their fair share in taxes and get a better balance.
You are a strange kind of economist, jfman. Where is all the government money coming from to support businesses for goodness knows how long?

You are not living in the real world.

The schools will re-open before the summer holidays, quite probably in May. I have not heard anyone 'denying' coronavirus. However, you think that if we have super-human powers to beat it. We don't. It will run its course, and that will be it. The vaccine will come later.

Businesses must be allowed to get back to some kind of normal after this next three weeks are over. It's the vulnerable who need to be isolated, but I doubt whether they will stand for another year or so of imprisonment.
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