Talk:Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic/Archive 1
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Title similar to Economic impact of HIV/AIDS?
Economic impact of COVID-19 would be more succint, and would neatly parallel the long-standing article Economic impact of HIV/AIDS.--Pharos (talk) 19:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Mention of George Floyd protests
This is currently the last sentence of the first paragraph of the lede and the fourth sentence of the page overall:
- Indirectly, it caused the largest and worst civil unrest in the United States history since King assassination riots in 1968,[1] which worsening economic impact caused by pandemic since it contains extensive property damage.[2]
I have multiple issues with this:
- "Indirectly, it [the pandemic] caused..." The citation gives no indication that the pandemic caused the protests, indirectly or "in turn" as the sentence used to say - heck, the cited article doesn't even mention the coronavirus or lockdowns at all. The Wikipedia articles COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States barely mention the protests, and they don't have a source for this statement either.
- Even if an editor manages to refine this statement and source it, is its current prominence really reflective of its importance? Again, the article Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States doesn't mention the protests at all - if they're not considered sufficiently relevant in the article about the country where they're happening, should they really be in the lead paragraph of the article about the entire world?
I've removed the statement already, but someone else has added it back, so I don't want to get into an edit war about this. But I think it should either be removed, or properly sourced and moved down to the appropriate country section. --IslandHopper 973 14:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Protests continue as US defense secretary rejects Trump's demand for troops". The Guardian. 3 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ Alberight, Amanda (31 May 2020). "George Floyd protests hammer cities as they reopen from coronavirus lockdowns". Fortune. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
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Problem with a section?
The Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic#Medicine section describes the impact on medicine as "interesting" (subjective) and seems to be poorly written. May someone take a look to revise this? -174.141.135.242 (talk) 20:46, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
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