GTA VI launch could cost US economy $1 billion as workers plan days…

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGrand Theft Auto Six comes out Thursday, November nineteenth, and Fox News reports it could cost the U.S. economy a billion dollars.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe estimate is that one point five million American workers will take the day off or call in sick, and productivity drops about two percent.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOne point five million people, finally attending the one event HR has been begging them to use. I'd call it a turnout.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHang on, it's their own days. They earned them, and now it's listed as damage.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMine is listed as damage every time I take one.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe professor behind the number, José García Montalvo in Barcelona, is calling it an estimate, not a guaranteed loss, so the billion may not even be real. That's the most British thing I've said all week.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFast Company says people are already planning to catch what it calls GTA flu.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA flu with a release date.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe economy will survive one Thursday. It's the bosses who'll have to read forty-two sick notes that all say GTA flu.