Texas Business Leaders Chafe At Coronavirus Lockdowns: ‘We’ve Got To Figure Out How To Live With This Thing’

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Texas political and business leaders have begun to question the long-term value of halting the $1.6 trillion economy of a state that has so far recorded a relatively modest 410 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 9 deaths

“Fear is a sudden and powerful motivator,” says Brigham. “But there’s a big difference between the government issuing guidelines, versus orders to shut everything down” or face the retribution of the state.

Berger doesn’t question the seriousness of the pandemic and the need to flatten the curve of infection, but he is worried that many people underestimate how hard it will be, after “slamming on the brakes” in the world’s biggest economy, to get everything moving again. Living with it means doing business in new ways. “Door-knocking used to be how our partners sell solar systems; now that’s not the best approach,” so they will move to more phone calls and online marketing.“We can’t just stop working. That’s not realistic,” he says. In time entrepreneurs and business leaders will demand to go back to work. “People will take it into their own hands.

 

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Gongyooeng Balancing act

Who sits like that

Give it another 2 - 3 weeks.

410 confirmed cases out of how many tested?

They are blocking or somehow putting a go-slow on the testing. Send some reporters to the laboratories and see what’s going on.

Shut your borders with rest of the country then you may have an argument

I do not think you are waiting it to become 4k or 40k for the action to be taken right.

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