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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    Here’s the other thing — not to play @The Big Ragu ’s corners, but an economic crisis was coming virus or no virus. The falling oil prices were the vanguard. The virus just put a rock on the accelerator.
     
    FileNotFound, Mar 19, 2020
    #2281
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  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    playthrough, Mar 19, 2020
    #2282
  3. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Getting ready to visit a grocery store as it opens. We'll see how the supplies look.
     
    BTExpress, Mar 19, 2020
    #2283
  4. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    TheSportsPredictor, Mar 19, 2020
    #2284
  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Godspeed. I'm thinking about a midnight run tonight to a usually-clean store with self-checkouts. Figure I can get in and out with virtually zero interactions.
     
    playthrough, Mar 19, 2020
    #2285
  6. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Several stores here have cut back on hours.
     
    MileHigh, Mar 19, 2020
    #2286
  7. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    Yeah it definitely changes the numbers.
    My problem with it is that they have gone on to possibly pass it to others.
    And my selfish reason of wanting the true number known to convince the trumpers that he did a lousy job.
     
    lakefront, Mar 19, 2020
    #2287
  8. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    This is interesting.
    My state has 98 confirmed cases as of this morning. Here are the age breakdowns:
    18-49 - 67
    50-64 - 19
    65+ - 10

    58 of the 98 are in the most populous county which I was supposed to travel to this weekend, but I'm not.
     
    Driftwood, Mar 19, 2020
    #2288
  9. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    That's just a normal Tuesday in Brixton.
     
    Cosmo, Mar 19, 2020
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    To the extent they know me, I hate that people on here think those are my "corners." Trust me, I have not been alone on this. Just on a board where that isn't a focus of people.

    To what you are saying. ... Just two months ago. ... Global debt hits new record of $253 trillion and is set to grow even more this year

    People just suspended all reason for a very long time.

    What is disconcerting is that the response right now. .. is that they are laying the seeds for trillions upon trillions of dollars of MORE debt and the central banks are now frantically going to try to monetize it all.

    But it's no longer just a, "The cure is the disease" thing, the way it has been. They passed the threshhold where it is becoming very apparent that it isn't going to work.

    We have to face reality and allow a deleveraging. Pain. Unfortunately, that is going to entail A LOT of suffering now. This board is interesting to me, because the interactions are unlike the interactions I have off of here. On here, people have sometimes responded like I am "rooting" for that suffering, when the whole point for me was that I saw us doing short-sighted things that were setting us up for that suffering, and I found it very disconcerting.
     
    The Big Ragu, Mar 19, 2020
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  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Lesson learned: Don't set your alarm to be at a store when it opens. Nothing is any different. Trucks apparently come and go at any time during the day --- things likely are even more unpredictable now. A Nature's Own truck just happened to deliver loaves of bread to Food Lion just before I got there yesterday afternoon --- so you had this massively empty asile with 50 loaves of Nature's Own bread.

    Can't even buy paper towels online. No, this shit cannot keep happening for 18 months.
     
    Last edited: Mar 19, 2020
    BTExpress, Mar 19, 2020
    #2291
  12. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    I'm starting to grow weary of the extreme "STAY HOME" people on Twitter, not because I'm not staying home, but because some of these people are taking it to ridiculous extremes. They're shaming people for going out on walks or hiking on empty trails. One actually said, "What if someone is walking by your car and they sneeze on the door handle." Like, seriously? Look, if we get a shelter in place edict from the government, I'll adhere by it. But I'm not staying in the house 24/7 and depriving myself of fresh air and exercise until then. I noticed a ton of people out walking and running and biking in my neighborhood yesterday, and we just nodded and steered clear of each other. Goddamn people, use some common sense.
     
    Cosmo, Mar 19, 2020
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