The time for indescision has passed. You've lost half your work force due to inaction. Take the following actions, today:

1. Pursue a dual path strategy: Path 1 - Partner with as many industrial manufacturers as possible to file relentless legal action against the states where you both make and sell cars. Path 2 - Form a temporary operational corporate footing to plan and execute emergency operations focused 100% on survival, no more and no less.

Path 1 - Assemble a legal team willing to work 24/7 until the job is finished only taking breaks for sleep, food, and sanity.

Anyone who is unwilling to risk getting sick at work is fired. That is not a new policy, it is the industry standard and always has been.

Reach out to other manufactures and ask them to join you. File suit against all non-voluntary restrictions that violate your civil rights seeking damages on par with expected lost revenue for the next 10 years. Use the last month as a loss basis x 120. Multiply that number by three and add it to the total for punitive damages.

File dual sets of suits, one set against the personal assets of all the chief politicians and congressmen and UK counterparts etc. for willfully violating the law causing grave financial damage, and one set against the individual states to actually recover money. Just like piercing tthe corporate veil, there is no expectation of government liability protection for individual officials who knowingly and willfully break the law. Many have admitted their actions are materially illegal. Serve the individuals seperately and by company, one after the other, with billions upon billions in claimed damages.

In the US on behalf of dealers: 1A violation of guaranteed freedom to assemble by prohibiting both work operations and customer access. These rights are guanteed by the Constitution under any and all conditions at all times without qualification. 14A violation of equal protection under the law, guaranty of liberty to move freely and choose desired activities without goverment interference, guaranty of use of property under any and all conditions at all times without qualification. Failure to obtain an Amendment to the Constitution ratified by the States. File the case with the US Supreme Court and request immediate national emergency priority. They will absolutely hear this case.

Show the C19 pandemic is numerically similar or lower in scope and severity as many if not all previous cold/flu years. All are annual pandemics. Use 2017's 22,000,000 US infections and 80,000 US deaths/750,000 global deaths as a legal precedent. Use other more severe years as additional precedents including 1918. Make the case that C19 does not register as a leading cause of death in the US, e. g. 450,000 fully preventable deaths occur annually from doctor mistakes. 800,000 from heart disease, exacerbated by inactivity. 50,000 age 65 and older die from stumbling and falling down. You get the idea.

Path 2 - Reachout to all employees including furloughed people and issue a 24/7 back to work order now, with the same conditions as above. No cut in pay but agree to emergency hours, or layoff.

Decide what is manufacturable given the state of the supply chain. If nothing, file bankruptcy immediately for the benefit of asset liquidation before the global fire sale, also for your employees so they stand a chance of transition while still collecting benefits.

Level with your customers. Tell them you are willing to partner with them to save Jaguar. The path foward is daunting so you are operating as a non-profit until further notice. Cars will be sold at cost, not a penny more, to keep the lights on and employees paid. Pull future profits forward as an additional buying incentive. Every new Jag sold during the emergency period comes with a lifetime 20% off MSRP coupon applicable to future purchases. Used cars will be sold at cost by adding overhead/carrying costs to your cost basis. No negotiation is possible. This should be in the neighborhood of 50% off MSRP.

Its not rocket science, you either want to survive or you don't care. Pick one.

 

LOL, I'm sure Tata is capable of making their own decisions.

 

"Show the C19 pandemic is numerically similar or lower in scope and severity as many if not all previous cold/flu years."

Good luck with that. In the UK we're running at 21,000 deaths against a seasonal average of 17,000 for flu. That's 21,000 in less than 2 months, compared with 17,000 in a complete season. And that's with the population in lockdown for the past 4 weeks driving the infection rate down.
God knows what the number would have been if we'd just carried on as normal. And let's not forget that those 21,000 deaths are on top of those who have died from regular seasonal flu up until the outbreak.

I fully agree that there is a delicate balance between protecting lives and protecting livelihoods. But suggesting the Covid-19 isn't that bad is just crazy.

 

The 2016-2017 flu season killed 80,000 in the US. The 2019-2020 flu season (which is over in May for statistical purposes) has killed 83,000, including C19. There is essentially no difference.

The point is, both are bad, but neither are as relevant to public safety as the top ten causes of death. Sending doctors back to school could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Exercising more, not less, could shave 100,000 off deaths from heart disease.

And lets not forget Tyson's two page ad in the NYT that the US will run out of meat and cannot restart the extremely complex just-in-time supply chain, which has the very real potential to kill millions, tens of millions, or even way, way more.

Trump just gave an emergency executive order citing war powers for the meat industry to immediately get back to work regardless of health risk.

I don't think he understood the point of Tysons the letter, which was that countless industries are intricately intertwined in the failing national/global food supply chain, and that cannot be centrally managed without creating a lasting disaster.

If I were them I would say, no way Don, we have no special responsibility for this mess. There's this nuisance called the 14A which guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law. We all work together or we all starve together.

 

I'm sure lawyers can fix everything.

 

And if you don't believe Tyson, try to buy a chest freezer in the United States.

 

Uh oh

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKCN22A1MR

That adds 10M to the 26.5M C19 unemployed, in addition to the 5-10M in this Thursday's report, plus the current 9.5M unemployed from non-C19. So thats an eyewatering 51M unemployed of 132M tax returns which includes 20M government worker tax returns carried as liabililities.

​​​​​​Probably not ideal for the old luxury car market. What do you think, Jaguar, time to throw-in a free coffee mug?

 

Fair enough. Just goes to show the differences between the UK and US and how difficult it can be to formulate a plan.

 

It does. The WHO stats raise serious questions about the actual state of the worlds best healthcare systems. There are huge unexplained disparities, with the US being one of the worst performers.

OTOH, traditionally that is the case, we usually have about double the flu death rate of the global rate.

 

This is a tech forum we have an off topic section for this stuff.
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