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Thetexashammer

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  1. While they are talking about more than a year to approve it, I think over time they will realize that they can loosen the safety protocols. It's a government bureaucracy, it's not flexible but over time and given a complete breakdown in society they will be forced to take more risk that they are normally comfortable with. I think I have an reasonably informed opinion and I am optimistic they can come up with something in a faster time frame, like before the expected fall resurgence. Herd immunity doesn't require 100% population immunity to be effective, just a good majority of the population.
  2. Debuting at No 41 on iTunes - REM's brand new song (that no one's ever heard of) called "It's The End Of The World As We Know It". https://www.cnet.com/news/coronavirus-has-r-e-m-s-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-climbing-charts/
  3. I'm able to go running here. People are exercising and walking dogs. It's pretty common. I'm not bothering to bring my "permit" as I don't think there are enough police around. I see them in the city center, and there may be checkpoints on major roads, but they're not around the rest of the city.
  4. On a not unrelated note, I recently discovered that the age of consent in Italy is 14, also known as 8th grade.
  5. True enough. UK just quarantined although they're not closing schools yet. Italy seems to have peaked.
  6. Maybe I'm a lunatic, but I just want to get it. I'm not in the risk group, and I'd just rather quarantine and move on.
  7. He's making decisions on a rolling basis. He's having trouble standing up to the restaurant lobbyists though.
  8. Even if it drops 50%, who would look around and say "shit everything's cheap!"? That's the danger of having such amazingly high multiples, once we try and find a bottom, it's a long way down. Never mind that entire industries will come close to liquidating and that banks are probably fucked again. Get out your Down 10,000 hats.
  9. Apparently, it's "continuing to spread" in Italy. Don't know if this is the ten day delayed snapshot, more testing, or actual spread. Been less than a week of actual shutdown so far. I just threw away the last of my pizza. Can't get more, everyone's closed. https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/03/16/coronavirus-continues-spread-italy-despite-lockdown/
  10. The Fed just shot the last round in it shotgun. Result: limit down on the market. Excellent job, fake government agency.
  11. NRAA = no rules at all? No regulation? No reserves? No residual value?
  12. I think large institutions are gonna start blowing up soon. At least around the edges of the system. Obviously the big ones have systems in place to avoid disclosure and direct lines of unlimited credit with central banks. But lots of smaller entities don't have that. Hedge funds, for example, many of which are highly leveraged and have trading accounts and leveraged contracts with the money center banks.
  13. Pornhub wants my email to get premium access. I didn't do it. What exactly do I get with Premium that is so awesome?
  14. Avatar checks out.
  15. Men run to the sound of gunfire. We don't run and tell daddy that somebody was mean to us.
  16. Why? Seems topical.
  17. Yes, you're an asshole. So am I. But feel free to buy groceries.
  18. Why would Trump have the legal authority to fire someone at an organization owned jointly by a bunch of banks? The Fed isn't a government agency, it's a private organization.
  19. My first thought was to answer your question "yes". But it's not that simple. Everything not a pharmacy or grocery store, to include restaurants, is closed. You have to have a document to travel, but you can self certify. For now, it's working because too many Italians are dying and people are scared. I've been out in public a bit and you can see the difference, and yes younger people are all like DGAF. Dumbfuck Italian bearded hipster douchebag cut in front of me at the store, maybe didn't realize he was crossing a line but fortunately I'm the well mannered sort. The point is, it will change, and it's not a function of carabinieri or the italian military, which seems to be out and about. The cops here are just like the ones in the US, but worse. They'll recklessly target the innocent with great violence and let the criminals go free, though they do seem to have a thing for the migrants, or at least a new excuse to go after them (I witnessed it). The people outnumber the cops, so when the people decide they're not gonna stay home, they won't. The end. Doesn't matter if gramma dies at that point. The reason the death rates are so high is that the ICU's have triaged out all the older patients. AKA if you're 65 or older, no ICU for you. I deal with stress pretty well, most people don't. There's a clock on this lockdown thing. It creates a pressure cooker. Things will blow up after a while. It's all a grand new experiment but Italy was a pressure cooker before and this isn't helping. I suspect (but am not predicting) it will have larger implications. Well other than another financial step down for the failing Italian economy.
  20. Guys - and this is real important - please remember Rule No. 1. - Cardio
  21. So you're essential if you work at a hospital, gas station, grocery store, or work for the police military or government, work in the media, work to deliver anything, or for a restaurant, or provide service to any of the above. It might be easier to define what isn't mission essential.
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