asg70 wrote:onlooker wrote:So what was that OS about us doomers being wrong all the time
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Nobody predicted a pandemic. It was all about it being just a bubble that would pop on its own.
When doomers are so clueless they don't even know what being right is, they simply make my point.
Thank you Onlooker for doing such a swell job at that.
When we have an actual GLOBAL COLLAPSE in the economy AND it's caused by the system collapsing from DEBT, which is what Onlooker's ilk constantly, incorrectly brays about, THEN his ilk MIGHT have something to brag about, re predictions.
I wouldn't hold my breath on that. In fact, when it DOESN'T occur (re an ACTUAL economic collapse wiping out the system as the fast crash doomers keep claiming will happen real soon now), it actually will show the OPPOSITE of what they keep claiming -- that the system isn't rapidly doomed, even when it comes under unusual stress. Just like in 2007-2009.
Big hint for the brayers of doom: A deep recession is NOT "collapse". Even though some of the worst offenders and their blatant lies claim we've been in a decade plus long DEPRESSION since 2007, in their own made-up world of economics.
Even if COVID-19 sweeps around the world fairly rapidly, it will more likely look economically something like the painful but NOT "collapse" scenario of the 2007-2009 mess -- i.e. a deep and scary recession.
And of course, we won't know quite a few key things like how weather, the spread of the virus, countermeasures like medicines including vaccines, things like travel and living restrictions, etc. will go, re how it will play out. (The mean old future always being so hard to predict and all.
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If it ends up being another seasonal flu with multiple effective vaccines within a few years (as I suspect, re various forecasts from actual viral/medical experts), how much economic calamity will that entail? I'd forecast a somewhat slower than normal economic recovery, but recovery nonetheless.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.