Not for an instant do I suspect you of being cold-hearted and indifferent. I know you better than that. But at the same time I'll urge you to look at the broader community comprising our towns and villages---a substantial number of them comprised of straight up individuals holding public office, teaching kids, crafting things we want and enjoy 365 days a year. Threaten those 60 years of age and older with removal of life itself and guess what?
Ask anyone how importantly economic concerns stack up against his/her life ending in mere days due to an unresolved virus.
It's not reasonable to even think of allowing our senior generations to walk on melting ice. Money is important when negotiating, of course. But when life no longer continues, it has no value whatsoever.
Surely you see this as clearly as do I, I understand. But hard-core far right thinking placing economics on a par with the preservation of human life may be putting the cart before the horse. And as the owner of three horses and three donkeys, I figure I know what I'm talking about.
And that's what I'm talking about!
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However, I concur with you in large part inasmuch as I, too, recognize the importance of permitting business to get back to work. Commerce is the fuel and lubricant of community interaction. Dollars provide us with the means to enter into exchanges involving items of value. So then, of course---whatever it takes, we need to do it. But a presidential decree won't restore legitimate reason to resume pipe space for oil and gas. And it will not restrain declarations of impending bankruptcies just around the corner.
I have only the highest of hopes for NGL finding itself capable of pushing onward. And I will be a unitholder once again, for sure. At this time, though, I'll need to await signs offering clearer visibility. Portfolio losses have been the broadest I've experienced in more than a quarter century of professional involvement. When I write of the tragedy I see due to the ongoing oil and gas debacle and the Covid 19 situation, I hurt for all those caught in webs of uncertainty and real pain due to loss. I'm a lucky guy, as yet untouched save for depreciating portfolio asset value. But I'm not dead in the water and I fully expect to stick around long enough to see things move back into some semblance of at least an acceptable norm--- a new norm as it will prolly be.
couldn't agree more in fact currently shutting the economy has a 25 time worse effect than the virus! problem now is we are past the point of no return.
It won't be as 'simple' as turning on the ON switch many business's will never recover. We in a heap of do do right now...