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  1. 7 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    I do assume that, but even with that in mind, how has China avoided quarantining the entire country? Given the way this has spread throughout the rest of the world, it surprises me that Beijing and Shanghai and every other major city in China are continuing without quarantine. Surely there was a high amount of travel between Wuhan and the rest of China prior to the lockdown, so I would expect outbreaks across the country, yet that doesn’t seem to be the case.

     

    There’s the mystery thriller scenario where China released it in Hubei in order to tank US mfg/supply chain and damage the market, buy tons of stock on the cheap and own America. 
     

    I think more likely the extreme measures they took (locking people in homes, use of video surveillance etc) and their basic police state helped. In China that fucker that flew to NYC to Palm Springs would never A) got on plane due to screening at airport B) would have known he’d probably be arrested. 
     

    China government has different response capabilities 

  2. 1 minute ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    The false numbers in this case would mean what exactly? Wuhan numbers are still worse than they are telling us and the situation is not under control?

    What about the rest of China? How is 90% of the country relatively unscathed while the rest of the world is breaking down?

    It just doesn’t make sense to me.

     

    Just assume China is lying. 

  3. We should all assume that CV is present everywhere and we have all been exposed (or a family member has)

    What we are doing by isolating/social distancing (besides getting really good at X-box) is flattening the curve in terms of people seeking treatment thus avoiding a crash on the hospitals.

    I don't believe that testing even matters at this point, that ship sailed long ago. Keep tests for hospitals for confirmation but at this point if people can

    A) actually follow their self-quarantine protocol vs boarding planes for Palm Springs or driving to Bee Caves

    B) Not flood ER with sniffles & headaches

    C) Stay the fuck home vs going out

    Hopefully we can stop the exponential growth of people infected and buy some time for a vaccine or something to emerge.

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    We have 2 dozen offices in the U.S.  Only these have gone "virtual"  today (WFH):

    ·         Phoenix - 9 cases in Arizona

    ·         Nashville - 18 cases in Tenn

    ·         Boston - 100+ in Mass

    ·         Seattle - 400+ in Wash

    ·         Kansas City - 2 in Missouri / 5 in Kansas

    ·         New York - 300+ in New York

    Yet Denver (49 cases), Houston/Dallas/Austin (38 cases) and all our CA offices (200+) keep chugging along. 

    We just shut CA office altogether and announced WFH for everyone else

  5. 1 hour ago, bernorange said:

    I've been warning about this possibility for a long time (though not as vociferously lately as no one seems interested in discussing it).  Zombie businesses are (likely) finally going to die.  Credit markets are going to crater.  Banks are going to face enormous stress.  Currency crisis is not out of the question in spite of the Fed's printing press.  2008 didn't solve a damn thing.  Covid19 may have accelerated the pace to catching up the can, but you can only kick it down the road so far in a world of compounding interest and debt.

    Well I guess it is a good thing Corona kills the boomers as this is going to wipe them the fuck out financially.

  6. 1 minute ago, Skipper said:

    Just no way after 2 NBA players confirmed with the virus.  All you need is 1 player get sick (who is potentially spreading it to teammates, opposing players, officials, etc.) and you have to shut down the whole thing anyways, so I don't know what they are waiting for at this point.

    I agree. Shit I think they should cancel domestic air travel (especially given as shown by that NYC fucktard that people are assholes) for at least 2 weeks and stream clean all plans etc

    I have friends that are like "flights are cheap so instead of driving to ski we are now flying" It's like WTF why not take a cruise while you're at it?

    Jeez

  7. 8 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

    I would love Warren but I'm only half joking about the GoFundMe to whack him if he chooses her. I think she is too strong for Joe and I don't think they are a fit. But damn, if he did it...….YES!

    I think he'll pick Stacy Abrams because she is a fucking Rockstar and she would totally bring in a lot of the black vote that Joe can't reach, meaning the young. I think she will also win over the latinx group. Maybe not the older latinos, but they love Joe so it won't hurt him if she can't expand his base here. I also think the white suburban women will love her. White old dudes won't but they like Joe so she won't hurt him too much with them.  She is like bringing in Babe Ruth for clean up, imo. Plus, she won't eclipse Joe, at least at first.  I think he'd want her on the ticket. She checks a lot of boxes, one being that she won't lose a dem senate seat. 

    Put Warren as Sec Treasury. 

  8. I say Moderate but more from how other people are reacting. With that said I have curtailed my travel (typically fly weekly - am letting March play out before getting back on road)

    I also am not shaking hands - am trying to social distance as much as possible.

    I am in good shape and never smoked etc so am not worried if I catch it per se, with that said I had the flu two years ago that turned into pneumonia and it laid me out for 2 weeks solid and put me in hospital it got so bad so I would rather not roll the die with Corona.

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