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Old 09-01-2020, 01:13 AM
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Tmeister
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One thing to also consider in all of this. When looking at countries that had a faster and better coordinated response to covid while conducting thorough national contact tracing... some of these countries reopened to still very depressed economies. So they’re *still* struggling economically under a best case scenario while also dealing with new outbreaks. Our country is so much bigger, and our response to covid - well, it wasn’t good enough. Safety measures like masks and physical distancing should have been implemented from day 1 to mitigate the spread. Then perhaps we wouldn’t have been in *as bad of shape.* Our economy (and industry) still has a long way to go before improving. The decline we are seeing is only just beginning. Just wait until the housing market crashes, evictions become commonplace, and travel restrictions in states like Hawaii continue to remain strict. The demand for passenger airline travel will remain depressed for quite some time and our industry has way too much capacity for all the competitors in the market. People’s spending habits and attitudes toward discretionary spending for leisure travel have shifted and will continue to grow towards a saving type of mentality, so there will not be enough room for all existing airlines currently operating. We haven’t even begun to see the beginning of the fallout.
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