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  1. On 3/14/2020 at 8:01 PM, luke duke said:

    I'm OK with price gouging during emergency situations:

    1. It would teach people to prepare for things in advance. The more people who are prepared, the better off everyone is.

    2. It prevents hoarding. If toilet paper cost 10x the normal price, I would only buy the smallest package available, if I were in need, and not five 95 roll mega packs from Costco.

    3. It ensures that items are available to those who absolutely need/want them, even if its at a premium price. There's people all over my Nextdoor feed begging for hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, etc. because they just had surgery, they're old and scared that won't survive a Coronavirus infection, etc. For an extra $50 they could get some hand sanitizer or N95 masks.

    Doesn’t it encourage hoarding, like those POS’s that bought thousands and thousands of bottles of sanitizer to sell for a higher price? 

  2. 23 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


    Unlike you, I don’t care if she’s a political hack or not. Don’t get so offended when her tweet has NOTHING to do with politics.

    I went and found the full quote. This might seem novel to you, but I don’t blindly accept things people say as fact just because I agree with their ideology:

    “On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says. 

    This does not mean that Covid-19 did not contribute to a patient's death, rather it demonstrates that Italy's fatality toll has surged as a large proportion of patients have underlying health conditions.

    There’s no new information in that quote. We know it fucks up people with health problems. This stat might actually make it scarier, because it means there were roughly 1500 people (so far) in Italy that were basically totally fine until they caught this virus and it killed them. 
     

    And I know things like research and evidence don’t matter to you, but it’s one guy in Italy saying this. I still can’t find his source. He may be correct, but still I’ve seen no evidence corroborating him. 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    but i mean... isn't that the economy? aren't millions of people suddenly out of work bc we all stopped this 'unnecessary' spending? what exactly do we all need to 'wake up' from?

     

    I meant more the buying lunch everyday, getting coffee twice a day, getting drinks multiple nights a week every week type of things. Sure it’s good for the economy. Might not be so great for the individual.

  4. 33 minutes ago, DaysOff said:
    56 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
    Just so we are clear, you are taking in-person classes, right?   School my wife is working with is designing lessons, etc, with the idea  of them switching to online classes, using Zoom, etc.     I know they’ve been busy prepping a lot of online stuff.
    It would be odd for AISD to shut down everything completely, when area school districts are going fully online, and when it’s screw over seniors, etc. and would put even more kids behind come August.  

    Read more  

    Lolz at online public school. Most people are poor (nobody here). Both parents work (yes they're still leaving the house every day). They may or may not have wifi or a computer. Public school IQs range from 20 to 150. This works for college online instruction, but for the non pre AP type of dipshit this will be a disaster. See you in September kids.

    At least several of the school districts in the RGV (poorest region of the state) have been giving every student a laptop or tablet to do homework/projects and what not on for years. Hasn’t noticeably improved student performance  much but it definitely hasn’t made it worse. I‘ve heard of other poor school districts around the country doing the same. This is a generation of kids that grew up online, poor or not. Won’t be a huge adjustment for them.

  5. I really, really thought he was going to go fully into the “it’s no threat, life will go on as normal” direction he stated when this first broke out. I thought we were headed for unmitigated disaster. Now we’re just headed for slightly mitigated disaster. I do applaud him for his change of tone, however brief it may last. Seriously. 

  6. 6 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Media took the straight line estimate, reported it hysterically, and hysteria ensued. It's not hard to understand why it's called the outrage industrial complex. The lie, on purpose, in predictable ways. 

     

     

    The “panic” truly started March 11th. It was a rare specific day you can trace it all back to. That’s when Gombert tested positive, NBA canceled the season, Tom hanks said he had it, and the Nebraska head coach had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance during a game (Not corona related but still). All in a couple hours time. The very next day is when you saw the first runs on the grocery stores. Before that not so much. Blame the media all you want, but all that in one day was an “oh shit” moment for the public. 

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  7. 17 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    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! 

    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. 

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  8. 50 minutes ago, stone oak said:

    The company I work for already found a way around it anyway. The vague language defining “essential” within they orders didn’t really make it that difficult really. 
     

    But yeah glad to see SA is a shitshow...

    Lol at “found a way around it”. I read the declaration. I had a very hard time thinking of a job that wasn’t covered under their “exempted businesses” section. The listed virtually every type of business on there.

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  9. As a natural introvert, I am. Read about this virus in January, gradually stocked up on stuff, got dentist appointment in, got a refill on contacts, and got a way shorter than normal haircut three weeks ago in anticipation for the exact situation we’re in. Mostly been relaxing through the panic. It’s not hard to be prepared for certain things. 

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