Cooler and damp. Rain in the forecast. We’ll see.
I don’t think we got more than a tenth of an inch in the last two days, despite the forecast. I’ve been watering potted plants and the raised beds. I’ve got work to do on the sprinkler system before I can turn it on. Subsequently the grass in front doesn’t look great. The grass in back was so high and dense my mower was almost stalled by it, and I had to cut half widths.
If it doesn’t rain, I’ll be doing more in the driveway. If it does rain, maybe some inside work. Kids will be doing school makework, wife is still working from home.
I’m not used to having people in the house during the week. Everyone is making adjustments. It’s really hard to believe we’re in the middle of a slow motion disaster. Commander Zero is feeling the same weirdness over at his place. Lights are on, weather is nice, and that’s strange. Looking at news coming out of NYC and looking at New Orleans, as well as overseas, I’m still convinced this is the real deal. I can understand that people who haven’t been immersed in this and seen the run up might find it all hard to believe. Even if you don’t pay attention for a few days, the exponential growth can fool you.
It’s coming. It’s real. It will be devastating for the hospital system.
While there are promising leads, getting it bad still means risking death.
Stay in, stay safe.
nick
It’s coming. It’s real. It will be devastating for the hospital system.
The hospital system in the US has been hosed for a couple of decades. This situation is simply exposing the obvious.
The doctors know that the fancy-looking hospital closest to our house is so bad that my wife told me to never take her or the kids there. “Malcolm Baldridge Award Winner”. The chain sure has pretty TV commercials, though, and the Kabuki tent is up in the parking lot.
Much like the financial system, the hospitals are looking for enough money from the Feds to paper over their deficiencies … at least until the next crisis.
A million ventilators? Really? It won’t be “just” $1 billion.
But they will have the machine that goes “ping”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd9NQxIeAAc
“More apparatus, please, nurse.”
“And get the most expensive machine in case the administrator comes.”
“You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes out of the monthly current budget and not the capital account.”
Python knew. Graham Chapman was a doctor. What the h*ll happened to Western culture in just the 40 years since “The Meaning of Life”?
My former boss at my last job came down with KungFlu. He probably caught it on one of his trips overseas. He survived. He is 70. He is healthy. He has two days left on his quarantine.
CBS reports one of their staffer dies of KungFlu. They also report she had been battling health issues for years and had been diagnosed with cancer. She was not healthy. Could it be that she died of her other health issues and the KungFlu was just the tipping point? Nope. That would not make for a news story.
Stories in our local news about people dying in a nursing home. Almost everyone in a nursing home has severe health issues. A nursing home is the last stop on the train ride out of this world. KungFlu just aggravated their health issues and moved them to an earlier train.
The common thread that I read in all cases that have died is that there were other health issues. People that have survived have no underlying health issues. The virus is affecting the weak and people already compromised. Maybe the US should be isolating all people with underlying health issues instead of the entire population. Maybe doing so would be considered racist thus not considered.
There are a couple of hospitals here that have set up tents in their parking lots. The hospital is not at capacity, there is no one in the tents and no need for the tents. But they are there. Made the local news. Considering how the tents were set up in a day could they not have waited until the tents were needed? Nope. Because I suspect there is money involved. From FEMA, from the state, from the feds, to set up the tents. Reimbursed at 200% of actual cost perhaps.
Yes, people should take precautions as they should whenever there is an outbreak. The flu, common cold, whatever. Common sense. But don’t panic.
The biggest issue from this entire event is going to be economic. The tremendous loss of jobs. The tremendous loss of revenue for companies, some will never recover or reopen. Companies will find out how many people are truly non-essential and will terminate those individuals. The strain on the safety net system will be enormous.
It is an election year. I suspect, highly, that it will be used as talking points in the upcoming election. Nancy Pelosi has already started the process. The democratic candidate will be pouncing all over Trump come election time.
Local TV stations have started producing spots bragging about their response to the event. How they had the most reporting, first to isolate, most accurate, etc. Then bragging about their reporters reporting from home, same as the major networks. Using the event for their advertising purposes is shameful but par for the course.
Most definitely. The ProgLibTurds are going to use the CV crisis to socialize the FUSA. The free market will come back like a race horse unless Plugs, Stretch, Shot Girl, etc., stomp on it. They are already screeching tRump has fcuked it up. Stretch even accusing tRump of fiddling while people are dying. They have no shame and deserve a CV suppository shoved up their collective arses.
It is an election year. I suspect, highly, that it will be used as talking points in the upcoming election. Nancy Pelosi has already started the process. The democratic candidate will be pouncing all over Trump come election time.
Unless they change nominees, the Dems will have to keep Plugs out of a debate lasting more than 30 minutes.
Since a format like that would be bad “optics” even if Biden was a 25 point favorite in October, the groundwork is being laid now that Trump is too incompetent for Plugs to even deign to debate. Absent images on the news of bodies stacked in trucks headed for mass crematoriums, however, I doubt the Dems could get away without at least one event.
I’m sure Cankles is crying in her beer that she won’t be the nominee. Cuomo is on TV everyday. He will be a shoo-in if the DNC asks him.
The Dems will have to keep Plugs out of a debate lasting more than 30 seconds.
Fixed it for you.
Indeed. Once this is all over I expect business to be booming for those that can survive. People will be flocking to eateries after being cooped up. Beaches, amusement parks, theaters, night clubs will be packed. People will be buying cars whose purchase was deferred until the event is over.
And also factor in the massive buying of TV’s, 4 wheelers, boats, booze and all manner of stuff with the stimulus money. Rather than using that money to pay rent, utilities and mortgages. That will be a real issue that will affect a lot of people about two months after the event ends. I don’t know how that is going to affect the economy. The boom, which I think will happen, may be short lived.
I expect to get my stimulus money about April 20th. I don’t need it as my income has not been affected. To be truthful I really don’t deserve the money. My primary source of income is government anyway, this is just like a work year end bonus. The majority of people on SS don’t need the money. Unfortunately there is no easy to determine who those people are with the current system.
My AGI for last year, and the prior three years, was well under $500.00 putting me in the category of the poorest of the poor. That has nothing to do with my situation but more to do with careful tax planning to minimize the amount of money I send to the treasury. That is probably the easiest metric the IRS and the legislature has to determine the poor of this country. Certainly not the most accurate.
I am half thinking about going to the local grocery store with the money and paying the grocery bill of random people. I will attempt to avoid those on state issued EBT cards. You can spot those by the type and amount of food they buy. High dollar items. Scan the food first and pay, then scan the beer, wine and cigarette then pay with cash. Or I may just give it to the school in the STEAM (will ignore the arts) programs. Or perhaps the sports booster club which does a lot for the sports programs by purchasing equipment. Maybe the band could use some more instruments.
I am also concerned about the scholarship I have offered this year. How is that going to be awarded if there is no graduation? How do I get the money to individual, well to the trade school they will be attending?
Hoo Boy:
Gambling with their lives: Las Vegas homeless are corralled into an empty parking lot and made to sleep on the bare concrete in boxed-off areas less than six feet apart after shelters were shut down when a resident became infected
Wait until it hits a 100º in the shade.
You misspelled “hollow-point in the back of the skull”, but so long as they get nailed up afterward — pour encourager les outres — I’m fine with either way.
Ray, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. The Chinese Bat Cooties deaths are being overreported, according to a number of docs and nurses who state that causes of death are being “corrected” by administrators. I can’t testify to the truth of this, but I’ve seen similar myself and didn’t see any reason to disbelieve what I read recently. And there’s all that lovely emergency money…
I watched the Jimmy Dore livestream last night, for some perspective from the other side. Much of it was sensible, calling out Alyssa Milano for her hypocrisy over the Biden rape claim, Pelosi didn’t try to help ordinary people in the stimulus bill etc.
Then he launched into the crazy, calling for a general strike, including by grocery workers, in order to get Medicare-for-all “a health system that works”. A general strike, in the middle of this crisis? He was serious. No mention of the 10s or 100s of thousands that would die without food. Insane.
I am half thinking about going to the local grocery store with the money and paying the grocery bill of random people.
I buy savings bonds with the checks, effectively giving the money back while retaining the option to get it if I ever need it.
Things got bad for us in Vantucky, but the bonds from my Bush 43 stimulus checks are still in a drawer somewhere, untouched.
In Mississippi, our new local Methodist hospital was excellent. The facilities were top quality and the staff were carrying and helpful. We had far too many visits there but it was night and day difference from the nearest big hospital.
Here in Oklahoma we haven’t much experience with the nearest small hospital. Visited it Friday evening for a wound that wouldn’t stop bleeding. They were empty. We were the only people in the ER and were seen immediately. A very experienced nurse solved the wife’s problem and we were on our way in 30 minutes. Not all hospitals are the same.
I have an “auto-ship” set up at Chewy and Amazon for regular resupply of cat food and cat litter. I just got notifications that they (both Chewy and Amazon) are out of everything that I regularly receive and they have no idea when they will get resupplied.
I do have a stockpile that will last for a while, but DAMN THOSE HOARDERS AND PRICE GOUGERS. I do not see a light at the end of the tunnel and if you see one it is an empty freight train head toward you.
Another thing that I cannot stand is when those of us who have built up reserves/stockpiles over time, being responsible and forethoughtful, are lumped into the same thunder mug. (How many of you know what that term means without having to Google it?)
Dark and gloomy today with a high wind advisory.
Edit/Add: @Greg, good luck trying to cash those Savings Bonds since, out here at least, the banks and credit unions are all closed except for ATM transactions. I have some bonds that have matured (no longer earning interest) and wanted to cash them out and put the cash into a high yield account I have. I was told, “sorry, no can do”.
Regardless of how long this event should last, it will over by 1 November. The cynical part of me thinks a lot of uproar is motivated by politics.
Yah. On the other hand, preppers have been looked down on for years so it’s nothing new.
Yo.
There’s a “liquidity crisis”, better known as a bank run.
Thanks for the heads up, Mr. DadCooks!
I just got my Chewy order for the Doxies. I’ll have to check later if they have my preferred in stock. I’m good for a couple of months.
Edit/Add: @Greg, good luck trying to cash those Savings Bonds since, out here at least, the banks and credit unions are all closed except for ATM transactions. I have some bonds that have matured (no longer earning interest) and wanted to cash them out and put the cash into a high yield account I have. I was told, “sorry, no can do”.
Dig around on the Treasury web site for information on the alternatives available to you. The moment the Feds don’t redeem a bond is a default situation which has *never* happened before and would trigger some very bad things.
IIRC, even in the event of a real government shutdown and/or TEOTWAWKI, debt service, including cashing savings bonds, would get first dibs on any government revenue, followed by military payroll.
Treasury bonds stopped being investments a decade ago. They are now liquidity instruments for which the buyers accept what is effectively a negative interest rate in return for the safety.
Gen Z’ers and Millennials have nicknamed COVID-19 the “Boomer Remover” virus. Rather callous and not surprising that they could care less about social distancing and self-quarantine.
WRT pet food, everyone here had a heads up…
WRT to next steps,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/democrat-governors-order-auto-shops-veterinarians-construction-companies-turn-over-lists-of-of-ppe-gear-presumably-for-possible-seizure/
Maybe after this, the arguments against gun registration will gain traction, with more people having direct experience of what happens when you ‘register’ something with .gov… and they come and take it. All for the common good after all.
I remind everyone that the shortage of PPE in the medical fields is because hedge funds, stockholders, corporate boards, and hospital management all made a bet. They bet that they wouldn’t actually NEED the stockpiles they were told to prepare. Told many many times. But they pushed those costs onto their suppliers and drew down or SURPLUSSED the stockpiles, because of MONEY. Now they want to seize the property of people who knew better, acted prudently, and prepared. They want to use violence and threat of violence to STEAL from one group who made good decisions and GIVE to a group (money men) who made bad decisions.
Until and unless they punish the people who made the bad decisions, I don’t care much. I know that’s callous and unkind to the people who are paying the price. If they want me to share their pain, they better start by hurting the ones that created this mess.
n
64º and cloudy in SA. Keeps the A/C bill down.
MrsAtoz has partnered with a couple of national speakers to see what $$ are out there. Setting up a home studio. We have lighting and cameras. I made the mistake of bringing my green screen to SA, so they are looking for a cheap on on Amazon.
I’ll post here if we manage to shake loose some of the school districts sweet, sweet, goobermint cash.
@MrAtoz
Would this be helpful for the green screen?
https://ezgreenscreen.com/green-screen-paint-home-depot.php
Ok, South Florida, you wanted the Governor to order a lockdown. BOHICA
May. Thptpth. Give it a week, and they’ll wanted it lifted, Easter at the latest. South and east of Yeehaw Junction (I’m not kidding about the name), restricting movement in and out of South Florida is extremely easy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490159-governor-to-issue-stay-at-home-order-for-south-florida
The original name was Jackass Crossing, but the Turnpike Authority didn’t want that on their signs.
Yes. A week. Subtitle graphic “Hollywood, FL” accompanying the whining on CNN/MSNBC/Fox/etc.
As I’ve noted before, if you want to understand South Florida, go spend an afternoon people watching at the Winn Dixie (or whatever is currently located there) in Emerald Hills Plaza at 46th and Stirling in Hollywood. The pizza at DiSalvos isn’t bad as a dinner option afterwards … just don’t watch the kitchen long enough to see how the big sweaty guy cleans the spatula.
Not so much Ms. Jenny. They are stuck in our Vegas condo with not much room and need to be mobile.
“The ‘Small’ Business Administration is now bigger than Walmart”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-small-business-administration-is-now-bigger-than-walmart-27604/
“Among the bailout’s many provisions (which go on for more than EIGHT HUNDRED pages!) is a whopping $350 billion to the Small Businesses Administration.”
“But typically, in order to receive an SBA guarantee, business owners have to provide their own ‘personal guarantee’ to the government. In other words, if the business owner defaults, the government can seize their assets in order to recover loan losses.”
“That’s the way SBA loans normally work. But these times are not normal.”
“According to this new bailout legislation, “no personal guarantee shall be required,” and the government “shall have no recourse against any individual shareholder, member, or partner . . . for nonpayment”.”
Oh my goodness ! When I heard that they were going to give out a lot of SBA money, I dismissed it because it requires a personal guarantee. Now I am thinking that I need a million dollar gift XXXX loan for our big business. Our business will never pay it back.
“The maximum loan amount is equal to your payroll costs over the last 12 months multiplied by 2.5.”
Scratch that, we need two million.
Great Twitchy essay on fracking, partisan hack, Rachel Madcow:
‘This didn’t age well!!’ Rachel Maddow’s recent hospital ship prediction sinks to the #FakeNews depths (cue flashback video)
BC: go big or go home
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2020/03/30
That is big !
WRT to the abbreviation, on maps it’s San Antonio while in C&W songs it’s San Antone.
Over The Hedge: toilet paper
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2020/03/30
So that is what happened !
–so, big business is just being prudent, and following requirements. Yet somehow the hospitals don’t have enough PPEs? Again, start shooting execs and I’ll know you’re serious.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8168557/Facebook-Apple-say-personal-N95-masks-donating-stockpiled-wildfires.html
Thunder box, thunder jug, gozunda, lotsa names, but would it smell as sweet?
n
So Trump’s an @sshole for suggesting that masks might be “walking out the back door”, but in the same day’s reporting–
“New York City’s Presbyterian Hospital, said that it was using more than 40,000 masks a day and anticipates that it could rise to 70,000 per day.
Nurses who would normally use masks and other protective gear only once are keeping them for entire shifts or longer to conserve supplies.
As supply chains break down or delay delivery of vital equipment, nurses say they are locking away or hiding N95 respirator masks, surgical masks and other supplies that are prone to going missing if left unattended for long. ”
BTW, how in the hell do you use 40K masks A DAY?
n
BTW, how in the hell do you use 40K masks A DAY?
Please. Everyone is taking them home to sell to neighbors. Wait until the malaria drug blister packs are released to the hospitals by Sandoz and IG Farben — the names involved make me giggle, but I’m old … and I digress — 10 million doses will disappear in a heartbeat.
The hospitals are unionized in closed shop states in NY, IL, WA.
Say, I detect a pattern …
The N95 masks that Apple, Google, and others had in California were not the medical ones. They were industrial ones for protection from particulate matter like smoke, dust, etc. They were not allowed to be used in a medical setting until the FDA waived the restriction.
The article is unclear, but that number is for surgical masks, which you discard after each procedure, and not N95 masks.
There used to be a sign that was common in service businesses. Kinda mean by today’s standards. “Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency for me.”
Forced sale or “donation” is a clear violation of the 4A, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,…”
But since they’re ignoring all the rest, why not that one too.
n
“Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility must refrain from using any such consumable equipment other than for use in delivering critical health care services or essential services requiring such equipment, and must either donate it to a local coordinating entity or prepare for the possibility of being asked to donate or sell it for use by critical health care workers,” Walz wrote Monday.
From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs.
“which you discard after each procedure”
–only if you discard your shirt, pants, hairnet, shoes, etc… walking from one patient consult to another shouldn’t trigger a switch.
The safest way to use PPE is put them on and leave them alone.
40K a day is 28 people throwing away a mask every minute of the day, 24/7 in a hospital with only 2600 beds. Or to put it another way, their whole system sees 2 ,000,000 “visits” a year, and at 40K per day, would use 14.6M masks over the year, or 7 masks per visit. Anyone been to the Dr and believe that? and the same article says staff are using the same mask all day, so which is it? Changing between every patient or using the same one all day?
One other consideration, their website says they have 20K employees world wide. So that’s 2 masks per employee per day, if everyone needs a mask. How many of those staff actually have contact with patients or are there large numbers of office staff who are not at risk. Maybe the guy quoted is talking about their whole system and not just the one hospital.
Still 40K masks at 200/case is a truckload every day.
The 10M masks in the article will supply 140 hospitals for a day at that higher 70K/day burn rate.
n
The 10M masks in the article will supply 140 hospitals for a day at that higher 70K/day burn rate.
The mob is going to be interested in the mask situation, especially if the rumors about CDC requiring everyone to wear a mask to walk outside their home for the remainder of the year come to pass.
“Hotze, pastors ask Texas Supreme Court to rule Harris County stay-at-home order unconstitutional”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-Supreme-Court-Harris-County-stay-at-home-15166758.php
It is unconstitutional.
BTW, Rush Limbaugh was back today on his radio show !
“Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-job-losses-could-total-47-million-unemployment-rate-of-32percent-fed-says.html
“A record 3.3 million Americans filed initial jobless claims for the week ended March 21. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect another 2.65 million to join them this week.”
It will be called … The Greater Recession.
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
Didn’t all of this stuff used to be made out of fabric and get laundered by the hospital laundry? Is part of the problem our switch to single use disposable surgical gowns and procedure masks?
No way. It’ll be called — by Democrats and the news media (but I repeat myself) — the Trump Recession or Trump’s Depression.
Just learned from the American ATM Owners Association that sole proprietor ATM business owners like myself can file for unemployment if their ATM locations are shut down by restrictions due to COBID-19. I have my accountant looking into it. My ATM income dropped from $400+ per night to $18 last night.
@Chad said:
Yes on both points Chad. Coming from a line of nurses that extends back to the stone age it is really only relatively recently that everything has become disposable and there has no decrease in re-infection or contamination rates because people no longer know how to really wash up.
We are losing our ability to develope immunity.
Along that line, as someone who worked in the Nuclear Industry and spent a lot of time in full isolation/decontamination suits, I can tell you for sure that properly donning and removing anti-contamination gear is not something learned in a day.
“Hotze, pastors ask Texas Supreme Court to rule Harris County stay-at-home order unconstitutional”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-Supreme-Court-Harris-County-stay-at-home-15166758.php
It is unconstitutional.
BTW, I do want to make it clear that we need to maintain the six foot no touching zone. In fact, I do not know how to maintain that zone and go to a church service. Maybe every other pew in the church needs to be empty. But, I want congregational worship again.
And, I amazed that someone can take away several of my constitutional rights through the month of May by the stroke of a pen. And I am amazed that someone can seize other people’s property, especially without recompense (the auction house).
We’ve got public officials running roughshod over our hard won civil rights. Especially in the situation where these rights apply.
And, I amazed that someone can take away several of my constitutional rights through the month of May by the stroke of a pen. And I am amazed that someone can seize other people’s property, especially without recompense (the auction house).
This morning’s announcement in Florida made me wonder if DeSantis wants the lockdown order for South Florida challenged in court.
As for the auction house, anti-gouging laws have been successfully challenged in court in very specific situations but generally upheld. Yes, those gas stations in Orlando near the airport really can legally charge that much.
And, I amazed that someone can take away several of my constitutional rights through the month of May by the stroke of a pen.
BTW2, I am suspecting that the lockdowns and seizures are going to last through the month of May. I am also suspecting the lockdowns and seizures will last through August.
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the Constitution and Bill of Rights are no longer taught in our Public Schools, haven’t been for nearly 50-years.
When I was in High School in the wonderful 1960s, you had to pass a test on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Illinois State Constitution in order to graduate (80% minimum score). It was not a cake-walk and we spent a whole senior year semester being taught all of it (I still have my big brown coursebook).
Within a couple of years of my graduation, the requirement went away as it was “unfair”.
@nick
time ago I discovered this guy, he repairs too, he is more fun to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFnSf53i2QA
but, people like me outside US hates to see such amount of electronics available cheap, i bought time ago some, but since my formative years were with those artifacts, envy only
cheers
“The ‘Small’ Business Administration is now bigger than Walmart”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-small-business-administration-is-now-bigger-than-walmart-27604/
“Among the bailout’s many provisions (which go on for more than EIGHT HUNDRED pages!) is a whopping $350 billion to the Small Businesses Administration.”
“But typically, in order to receive an SBA guarantee, business owners have to provide their own ‘personal guarantee’ to the government. In other words, if the business owner defaults, the government can seize their assets in order to recover loan losses.”
“That’s the way SBA loans normally work. But these times are not normal.”
“According to this new bailout legislation, “no personal guarantee shall be required,” and the government “shall have no recourse against any individual shareholder, member, or partner . . . for nonpayment”.”
Oh my goodness ! When I heard that they were going to give out a lot of SBA money, I dismissed it because it requires a personal guarantee. Now I am thinking that I need a million dollar gift XXXX loan for our big business. Our business will never pay it back.
“The maximum loan amount is equal to your payroll costs over the last 12 months multiplied by 2.5.”
Scratch that, we need two million.
My brother the banker just emailed me and called me. He says to jump on this TODAY. There are 800 banks authorized to do SBA loans in the USA and there is limit of $350 billion. He is the #1 SBA banker in the the Houston area, maybe all of Texas with his 20 branches across the state. So he knows what he is talking about.
His email says “I was going to call Lynn on this. He should absolutely do this. Its free money. No personal gty, no collateral.”
“You can count the over $100,000 salaries – but only up to $100,000. So if you are over $100,000, then you would deduct that amount over $100,000 from the monthly average.”
“If your salaries run about $90,000 per month, then you will get a loan of about $225,000. After June 30 you can apply to have it totally forgiven. Best part – the forgiven debt will not be taxable. Free money!”
BTW2, I am suspecting that the lockdowns and seizures are going to last through the month of May. I am also suspecting the lockdowns and seizures will last through August.
Tests should be available to anyone who wants one by the end of May. At that point, with widely available testing, the known infected need to camp their happy a**es at home or, if necessary, the hospital. *Not* Disney World, Mardi Gras, Broadway, …
Florida is starting to release hospitalized numbers with case and death counts.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/30/florida-coronavirus-cases-pass-5000-with-more-than-60-deaths-statewide/
Tests should be available to anyone who wants one by the end of May. At that point, with widely available testing, the known infected need to camp their happy a**es at home or, if necessary, the hospital. *Not* Disney World, Mardi Gras, Broadway, …
Hopefully we will have a vaccine by the end of April. And maybe a few doses to inject too.
Speaking as an acquaintance, Lynn, good for you. Go for it!
Speaking as a taxpayer, I resent the hell out of this. Not the loans, but the terms and the forgiveness.
The latest news I heard is that we’re up to 6 cases in this county. The biggest threat is the one we’ve been living under for nearly 18 months, a simple shortage of hospital beds. The larger of the two hospitals was nearly destroyed by the hurricane. The last figure I remember hearing was that 80 of ~350 beds are open & operational. The smaller hospital is supposed to be fully open, but it to was heavily contaminated by the storm.
The economic catastrophe from the lack of tourism is going to dwarf the economic affects of the storm. The county & most of the municipal governments were already facing huge shortfalls. My employer is about to get busier, and since I get a small piece of the action I might come out ahead. I’ll never make up what I lost in the personal catastrophes, and I won’t be able to retire, but I don’t worry about not being able to eat in the next 15 – 20 years.
@ayj, thanks I’ll check out the channel.
I also really like this guy
The Post Apocalyptic Inventor
but he’s not relaxing or restful.
n
Speaking as an acquaintance, Lynn, good for you. Go for it!
Speaking as a taxpayer, I resent the hell out of this. Not the loans, but the terms and the forgiveness.
If it helps at all, this will let me run through the summer with all my employees. Otherwise, I am going to have to lay off three employees. Don’t ask me which three, I have been agonizing about this.
BTW, all this does is hasten the financial apocalypse of the USA. It is coming anyway.
I’ve long believed that Publix will have another chance at buying Whole Foods.
Publix abhors debt and was not willing to pay what Amazon paid.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmeka/whole-foods-employees-are-staging-a-nationwide-sick-out
I’m not a Whole Foods fan, but any disruption to the distribution system now will create ripples elsewhere. I’d be nervous in a “closed shop” state with union stores.
Ruh-roh. Gold Eagles were already “Unobtainium”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-03-30/us-mint-shutdown-corona
Dealer prices for Eagles, if available, are way out of whack with GLD.
Message sent from Tallahassee and received in South Florida. No more games.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/30/south-florida-urged-to-stay-home-until-mid-may-desantis-says/
More good news. 54 MPG was not going to happen, and those vehicles had to be in the pipeline now.
Ford drank the Kool Aid, but I have pics I took in a hurry of a heavily shrouded but recognizable Crown Vic rolling around in Chicago last year.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/mar/30/new-trump-mileage-standards-to-gut-obama-climate-effort/
Got some work done today, but not as much as needed. Spent too much time online.
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Ruh-roh. Gold Eagles were already “Unobtainium”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-03-30/us-mint-shutdown-corona
Dealer prices for Eagles, if available, are way out of whack with GLD.
Gold is for rich men and kings. Silver is for us.
And physical ownership of precious metals is much better than “certificates”. People are not going to take certificates in barter.
Without a forklift, you’re not gonna have enough silver to get any wealth thru a currency collapse….
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And physical ownership of precious metals is much better than “certificates”. People are not going to take certificates in barter.
I hate the tax paperwork of GLD, but I have one chunk of it which I recently purchased as a hedge in my non-401(k) trading account.