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  1. 8 minutes ago, staboner said:

    Maybe you should start caring about other people living paycheck to paycheck before the fucking pandemic hits

    see how easy that is?

    The whole point of @TornACL post was the remarkable stupidity of making this black and white, something you are doing nonstop on the stupid fucking thread bob has to make for you in DT. Grow a pair quit picking places to be simple and contrarian.  

     

    So... I'm just making a wild guess that you aren't taking money out of your personal savings to make payroll for your employees this week?

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  2. 7 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    We were? Never saw anything for that. Got a link? I could have missed it. Or are you wrong and thinking about italy? 

    also to borrow your expert analysis from before, it could be that Texas is not “officially” progressing at the same rate bc you aren’t testing at the same rate ny is. If texas never ramps up there testing then poof, they’ll never progress at the same rate. 

    Unless you got a credible link for why you think Texas won’t progress the same way ny is (aside from refusing to test people), every other model shows it will. But I’ll read a real link if you got one. 

    Yep.  I'm just making this shit up.

    https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/ap-news/thousands-show-support-for-china-wuhan-at-nyc-parade

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  3. 2 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    The idea that three weeks of non essential businesses closing will somehow destroy the country is asinine pussy talk. 

    These are not the only two options, but for the simpleton mouthbreather olds in this country, everything has to be binary choice. 

    As soon as these fucking pussies get sick they'll bitch about how shitty the hospitals are. 

    If these fagets had any backbone they'd be saying that nothing can take us down and we'll get through this. But no, the sky is falling because I'm terribly inconvenienced. 

    No wonder we couldn't win the Vietnam War. Worthless Generation. 

     

    Bold talk.  Are you trying to make payroll for your small business this week?

  4. 13 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

    When car accidents become highly contagious, this might make some sense. 

    This is the stupidest fucking argument I’ve seen here. 

    Thanks.  Obviously, I am talking about comparative risks of everyday life just to make a point of how overblown this reaction seems to be.  Of course a simple comparison of these 12 actual deaths to the expected annual deaths from the normal annual flu virus would blow all that comparative analysis away. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    No one debates if shutdowns work to slow the spread of disease or not, except for morons like yourself. Of course shutdowns accomplish that. The only real debate is are the shutdowns worth the cost. 

    Lovely.  I really appreciate the intelligent discourse.  And thanks in advance for more negs.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, B00M said:

    What would you do differently?

    Personally, I wish all the folks that don't want to obey social distancing and instead just want to let this run its course could be sent to some island where they can't harm the rest of us. Then we can see how it plays out. You won't need gloves and shit cause the flu is worse right?

    New York's hospitals are days from rationing care and Atlanta's aren't far behind... If the numbers remain a "rounding error" here it's because our sacrifices worked.

    Yep. That's the beauty of this whole "shutdown/social distancing" experiment that we are headlong into.  The only thing that is assured it that it will shut down our economy.  If the virus spread slows down -- the "shutdown/social distancing" experiment will be credited.  If it doesn't slow down, we'll all be accused of not appropriately following the "shutdown/social distancing" experiment.  Win/win! 

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  7. On 3/24/2020 at 8:42 PM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    So, someone up thread said something about normal death rates. Here in NYC, a person dies every 9 minutes in a normal year. Per the city, we are at a total of 192 deaths. In a normal NYC day, 160 people die. Just thought we ought to put this in perspective especially since there are many times more people with this thing. Especially given as they are making harder and harder to get tested now.

    12 coronavirus deaths in Texas thus far.  There are 9+ traffic deaths in Texas everyday.  That is considered an acceptable risk.  No highways closed down that I know of.  The coronavirus death toll is a rounding error.  We don't do risk management very well these days.

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  8. I own a small consulting firm with a couple of other guys.  The main thing that we are seeing is how unimportant our physical office space really is.  Lots of dollars going in there, but nobody is using it and the money from clients is still coming in via wire or mail.  I think we are gonna look really hard at some of our prior decisions when it comes to lease renewal time.

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  9. 47 minutes ago, Penelope said:

    Turns out I can’t do that. I’m a private club and my liquor license will not allow me to do any of this. All other mixed beverage license can do it but not me because I’m a private club.  So I am completely fucked. Not sure why I am not allowed, pretty sure it has do with fucked up TA BC shit

    Hang in there.  Maybe step up the "to go" food game until whiskey is back in season? I feel guilty as I was one of the original club founders based upon a Williamson County request for assistance back on TOS.  Good luck.

  10. In 1963, Austin’s Rowdiest Teens Built a ‘Sex Party Tree House’ in North Loop

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    On the night of July 26, 1963, Austin police officers executed a raid at a vacant city-owned lot on the shores of Waller Creek just north of West 55th 1/2 Street, inside the neighborhood now known as North Loop, where a “teenage drinking party” was taking place. The venue for this rager was a three-room shanty built on stilts, seemingly hidden on the empty land by surrounding trees. 

    https://austin.towers.net/in-1963-austins-rowdiest-teens-built-a-sex-party-tree-house-in-north-loop/?fbclid=IwAR2_WlijbIDNEtbKMkvyiy_P5V_j_z4Kp1uE_E-XYT-aYq712lzWgOQSWmo&agent=caitlyn@towers.net

  11. Our hunting lease landowner gave us detailed instructions for tasks that we need to perform related to water wells, pumps and water troughs at the ranch.  All of which are critical for the survival of livestock -- and which give us cover if we catch any guff from the law about being out and about in violation of any lockdown.  I'm gonna wait out all of this BS at the ranch!

  12. How is this not a "taking" of private property?  Nuts.

    Austin City Council to vote on 60-day grace period for rent payment during COVID-19 outbreak

     
    And I agree that it would be stupid for a landlord to not work with an otherwise reliable tenant, but does Greg Casar and the Austin City Council need to interject itself into hundreds of thousands of private commercial agreements?
  13. 2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I watched some doctor on CNN say Chloroquine has not been trialed to treat Covid and people need to be patient. Yes it’s a FDA approved medicine for malaria but not for Covid. Ummm who gives a fuck. I understand there could be unforeseen consequences but if someone is between living or dying, I doubt the patient gives a fuck that Chloloquine hasn’t been approved to treat Covid 

    I'm not a physician, but it is my understanding that there is no requirement for additional FDA testing of "off label" uses of an otherwise FDA approved script.  Docs chime in.

  14. 4 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Jesus.  It’s fucking simple:

    Shut down all air travel for 30 days (announce it now effective 4/1-30)

    all cities of 500k+ Shelter in place for 30 days (announce now effective 4/1-30); travel only allowed to get food or medical attention.  All businesses not related to food or healthcare must close.

    Crank out the fucking tests.  Everybody gets tested.  Everybody.

    On May 1 lift the travel restrictions but for the next 3 months in order to fly you must have passed a test within the last 2 weeks and not have a fever.

    Give every poor person $2,000.  Give all businesses a huge tax break if they prove they have as many FT employees on 7/1 and 12/1 as they did on 2/1.

     

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  15. 5 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Should be close to 40 hospitalized at NW by morning.  In the 4 major medical centers downtown Chicago (NW/UIC/Rush/UofC) I'm thinking well over 200 actually hospitalized by tomorrow night.  NW ICU full but they have already converted other units.  The vents are still available but at this point it seems very clear its only a matter of time before there's a shortage. 

    This does not compute -- https://www.arcgis.com  currently shows a total of 422 active cases in IL. Is the reported data way behind or are normal flu patients being hospitalized?

  16. 12 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Paywall

     

    please paste

    Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown

    No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health.

     
     
    By The Editorial Board

    Updated March 19, 2020 7:40 pm ET

    Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over. If this government-ordered shutdown continues for much more than another week or two, the human cost of job losses and bankruptcies will exceed what most Americans imagine. This won’t be popular to read in some quarters, but federal and state officials need to start adjusting their anti-virus strategy now to avoid an economic recession that will dwarf the harm from 2008-2009.

    The vast social-distancing project of the last 10 days or so has been necessary and has done much good. Warnings about large gatherings of more than 10 people and limiting access to nursing homes will save lives. The public has received a crucial education in hygiene and disease prevention, and even young people may get the message. With any luck, this behavior change will reduce the coronavirus spread enough that our hospitals won’t be overwhelmed with patients. Anthony Fauci, Scott Gottlieb and other disease experts are buying crucial time for government and private industry to marshal resources against the virus.

    ***

    Yet the costs of this national shutdown are growing by the hour, and we don’t mean federal spending. We mean a tsunami of economic destruction that will cause tens of millions to lose their jobs as commerce and production simply cease. Many large companies can withstand a few weeks without revenue but that isn’t true of millions of small and mid-sized firms.

    Even cash-rich businesses operate on a thin margin and can bleed through reserves in a month. First they will lay off employees and then out of necessity they will shut down. Another month like this week and the layoffs will be measured in millions of people.

    The deadweight loss in production will be profound and take years to rebuild. In a normal recession the U.S. loses about 5% of national output over the course of a year or so. In this case we may lose that much, or twice as much, in a month.
     

    Our friend Ed Hyman, the Wall Street economist, on Thursday adjusted his estimate for the second quarter to an annual rate loss in GDP of minus-20%. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s assertion on Fox Business Thursday that the economy will power through all this is happy talk if this continues for much longer.

    If GDP seems abstract, consider the human cost. Think about the entrepreneur who has invested his life in his Memphis ribs joint only to see his customers vanish in a week. Or the retail chain of 30 stores that employs hundreds but sees no sales and must shut its doors.

    Or the recent graduate with $20,000 in student-loan debt—taken on with the encouragement of politicians—who finds herself laid off from her first job. Perhaps she can return home and live with her parents, but what if they’re laid off too? How do you measure the human cost of these crushed dreams, lives upended, or mental-health damage that result from the orders of federal and state governments?

    Some in the media who don’t understand American business say that China managed a comparable shock to its economy and is now beginning to emerge on the other side. Why can’t the U.S. do it too? This ignores that the Chinese state owns an enormous stake in that economy and chose to absorb the losses. In the U.S. those losses will be borne by private owners and workers who rely on a functioning private economy. They have no state balance sheet to fall back on.

    The politicians in Washington are telling Americans, as they always do, that they are riding to the rescue by writing checks to individuals and offering loans to business. But there is no amount of money that can make up for losses of the magnitude we are facing if this extends for several more weeks. After the first $1 trillion this month, will we have to spend another $1 trillion in April, and another in June?

    By the time Treasury’s small-business lending program runs through the bureaucratic hoops—complete with ordering owners that they can’t lay off anyone as a price for getting the loan—millions of businesses will be bankrupt and tens of millions will be jobless.

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    Perhaps we will be lucky, and the human and capitalist genius for innovation will produce a vaccine faster than expected—or at least treatments that reduce Covid-19 symptoms. But barring that, our leaders and our society will very soon need to shift their virus-fighting strategy to something that is sustainable.

    Dr. Fauci has explained this severe lockdown policy as lasting 14 days in its initial term. The national guidance would then be reconsidered depending on the spread of the disease. That should be the moment, if not sooner, to offer new guidance on what might be called phase two of the coronavirus pandemic campaign.

    That will surely include strict measures to isolate and protect the most vulnerable—our elderly and those with underlying medical problems. This should not become a debate over how many lives to sacrifice against how many lost jobs we can tolerate. Substantial social distancing and other measures will have to continue for some time in some form, depending on how our knowledge of the virus and its effects evolves.

    But no society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its overall economic health. Even America’s resources to fight a viral plague aren’t limitless—and they will become more limited by the day as individuals lose jobs, businesses close, and American prosperity gives way to poverty. America urgently needs a pandemic strategy that is more economically and socially sustainable than the current national lockdown.

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