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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I read that article once....at the HOUSTON RODEO. All kidding aside, I read that a few days ago and went to the store the next day. It’s when reality set in.
  2. Sanjay Gupta is on cnn saying we have 74,000 ventilators. How can the numbers from different people so off?
  3. EPL going to postpone until April. Not sure about the Houston rodeo yet.
  4. News conference regarding two presumptive positive cases of coronavirus in Austin-Travis County set to begin soon.
  5. Clearly this has been coming for a while now. Just wondering what news/numbers came out in the last 36 hours that sent all the closures into overdrive. Or is it just more research about how this spreads getting out to the masses? I didn’t pay that much attention to it until I read one of the articles posted here yesterday. Went to the store and stocked up today. This shit it real, and it’s obvious. But why did so many people figure it out at once yesterday?
  6. I actually don’t. Other than a few regarded folks that live in fantasy land, people are starting to figure out how to beat this with social distancing.
  7. Yes but it going down 20% and being shut down would be much more damaging than just waiting it out until Monday.
  8. Anybody else think they should close markets until Monday? Seeing a giant sell off will only make the panic worse.
  9. I don’t think most people realize how far this could go. It’s not just about oil and airline companies. It could wreck everything from the gig economy to commercial real estate.
  10. I know health comes first but I can help but think of the likely long term economic impacts from this. There are a lot of balance sheets that are going to be really fucked up for a while.
  11. Nebraska basketball coach just left the game to go to the hospital.
  12. Why are people buying water? Coronavirus going to come through the taps?
  13. The state doesn’t have any means of dealing with attendance in its current form. We are about to hit high stakes testing season as well. There are huge ripple effects if there is a delay. My call would be to say to stay home and make it up on the back end. If school was delayed for two weeks then the staar test gets pushed back two weeks. Maybe allow districts to shorten their year after testing with the same funding if they want. Other concern is that students don’t have anywhere to go in lower socioeconomic homes. Those parents tend to work together to watch each other’s kids so they can go to work. But then you have created a new spreading ground for this. There are no easy solutions here.
  14. Thank you. Two days until spring break so that will hopefully buy the state some time to make a decision.
  15. I run the school so that’s not really an option, unfortunately.
  16. It’s definitely an ongoing conversation at my elementary school. Ultimately the state is going to have to have a funding mechanism for districts that shut down in Texas. We get funded based on attendance and 85% of that goes to salaries.
  17. Anybody feeling more confident in some down ballot races (Texas house) now that its likely Biden will be at the top of the ballot? I’m not a biden fan but I could see this working out well for some Texas Dems.
  18. Texas Dems suing to restore straight ticket voting because it discriminates against minorities by creating longer lines in their areas.
  19. Financial literacy/personal finance begins being taught in Texas in the 3rd grade. It’s relatively new so millennials and non-Texans probably didn’t get it. It will be interesting to see if it makes a difference in 10 years. They cover debt, credit, interest, responsible uses of money, etc. This was on staar last year: Ms Patterson works for a company. Which factor would most likely affect the amount of money she gets paid by the company? A. The amount of money Ms Patterson has to pay in bills. B. The size of Ms Patterson’s family. C. The amount of money Ms Patterson saves every month. D. The work experience Ms Patterson has. E. Her company calculates a mans salary and simply pays her 80 cents on the dollar. Ok, I added the last one but it’s interesting what they ask 7 and 8 year olds.
  20. Maybe I’m different but I see it as irresponsible to pick a candidate when I know nothing about either person running, especially in a primary where they are in the same party. I skipped a lot of races on my ballot for this reason.
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