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Eastwood

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  1. It's being reported by several anonymous restaurant workers that large portions of their staff are testing positive and they aren't shutting down. They aren't even skipping a beat and the worst offenders are asking their staff to come in symptomatic. Symptomatic with this virus varies wildly. It could be anywhere from a light cough to ICU. So, if you're willing to roll the dice that the restaurant is following guidelines and being honest with their reporting and methods, by all means, roll the dice. But I'm way more concerned about other people's hubris, stupidity, and malice rather than the virus itself.
  2. Mask up, stay home, and let Darwin sort the rest out. Unfortunately, members of my family aren't taking it as serious as they need to. Some people don't move until they get popped on the nose with a newspaper. The wife and I almost hit the breaking point on staying home. Friends and family are out and about like it's June 2019, haven't been to the gym since March, our oldest was supposed to start kindergarten... Just total disarray and it weighs heavy on us. It got to the point where we were questioning our own judgment. Now we're on wave 2 and glad we've held out.
  3. Pretty much this. During the last big downturn in my field (O&G) at the end of 2015, things quickly picked up about 3 months in and people were constantly checking in with me to make sure I was available to hit the ground running the moment a project restarted or a new one came in. This time around it's been dead silent since the end of March. I've even been checking up on my old project and past project areas to see if things have been moving on without me and things really did come to a stand-still out there. Selfishly, I'm thankful that is the case and it wasn't me getting left out in the cold for reasons unknown. The PPP loan is greatly appreciated, though. It came in right when my last invoices were paid and the forgiveness amount will have carried me all the way to the end of this month. Like everyone else, the initial guidance had me over-borrowing beyond the forgiveness amount. The plan was to throw the unforgiven amount into the IRA, which would out-earn the 1% interest (at least in theory), but I might not be able to do that now. I was hoping to pick up the occasional small gig to supplement the income, but that appears very unlikely now. Either way, I have plenty of runway for a career change that was already in the works to come to completion and hopefully all of this will be a distant memory come this time next year. I can't imagine the stress of those of you with actual employees, though. God speed to you guys.
  4. I can't verify, but can absolutely believe it. I had to search the Travis County District Clerk records and the computers seemed like they were 20 years old and running Windows Millennium Edition. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that. Small, rural counties that I had been to had better computer systems than the Travis County DCR.
  5. I'm nowhere near proficient in epidemiology and infectious disease, so my question is whether it is common for a virus to mutate to be less lethal. There are obvious evolutionary advantages to it, being that it allows the host to spread more. A hope that I have, albeit a morbid one, is that the virus has burned through those most susceptible to infection and fatal outcomes to that specific virus and is now acting more like a common human coronavirus rather that SARS or MERS.
  6. A whole bunch of folks and organizations got the opportunity to publicly display that they weren't racist. As to donating money, it was their choice to donate before all the facts came out. The truth is never overrated. What people decide to do with that truth, though, is always interesting. If you're upset about it, stop watching NASCAR and don't use any company that sponsors Bubba. Nothing criminal happened and I'm not aware of any civil liability here, so a court of law won't give you the justice you think is deserved. That just leaves the court of public opinion and you're free to participate with your wallet.
  7. I agree that the current photo evidence does not look good for Bubba's claim. I would never look at that and think it was a noose. If it was just a mistake, my money is on either a family member, girlfriend, or other person not familiar with the garages being the one who raised the issue and Bubba took their word for it. But Bubba is just one driver in an entire, multi-tiered organization. NASCAR is willing to risk even more market share, which they have little to spare, to back him. I think that is a bigger story.
  8. No laws were broken, no one was fired, punished, or even publicly named. If Bubba Wallace lied, then NASCAR, his sponsors, and the court of public opinion will decide what happens next. If you think that NASCAR doesn't have an image problem when it comes to racism, I have some tomato tree seeds to sell you.
  9. You know what is a bigger problem for NASCAR than someone mistaking a door pull for a noose? The fact that the culture around NASCAR, which NASCAR either passively or actively encouraged, allowed millions of Americans, including NASCAR's own drivers, to easily accept that it happened. It is entirely believable and easy to accept, in that sport and the regions it is most popular, that someone would have put a noose in a person of color's garage. NASCAR took the opportunity in our current climate to make a statement that not only is racism unacceptable, but symbols commonly associated with racism, regardless of their history, are also unacceptable (i.e, the banning of the Confederate flag). Whether this incident was truth, innocent mistake, or even a lie, NASCAR and its employees, drivers, and owners doubled down on their statement that racism is unacceptable. The truth of Bubba Wallace's matter doesn't change that. NASCAR, who is already racing in front of half empty stadiums and pulling significantly less ratings than a decade ago, is willing to risk even more decline to take a stand against racism. That, in my opinion, is the bigger story here.
  10. Dr. Fauci fielded a question on this area this morning. Essentially confirmed that the socioeconomic reality is that Hispanic and Black people are more likely to work a job that does not allow telecommuting or working from home, and are therefore more susceptible to exposure to the virus.
  11. Y'all got Groverat'd.
  12. He refused to leave quietly. Kudos to him.
  13. Play with the Gomers and you're gonna get Pyled.
  14. Got any links or are you just tin-foiling? And I know that neighborhood very well. A Staff Sergeant with dependents will get a BAH of almost $1800 in that neighborhood. An E6's base pay is around $48k a year, with benefits 100% paid for, and there's no telling what kind of other bumps he gets to that. Does he have an associates degree? Does he know other languages? Does he get other allowances? Does he get any other special incentive payment? Did he get a re-enlistment bonus? The Heights of Stone Oak is a nice neighborhood, but it's upper-middle class at the tip-top. Plenty of $300k homes in there that he had to pay zero down for under a VA loan and at a very loan interest rate. And of course they call the cops. The MPs have no jurisdiction off base. It's when they use the MPs instead of city cops that should trigger your tinfoil. Would you rather they send a couple of black SUVs with a black helicopter circling? Cite your sources or let this family rest.
  15. Well, A&M always wanted the national spotlight...
  16. Lotta red candlesticks out there. Feels like the market is going to give all the futures back today.
  17. Rumor mill swirling about CHK filing for BK on Thursday. Franklin Resources will possibly be managing the assets after.
  18. Sounds like people haven't capitulated, yet.
  19. Or worse, they are doing what Wall Street was accused of doing in '08: pumping sunshine to lift prices to recover losses then dump everything when they're done.
  20. CNBC started crowing about a V shape recovery literally 2 days ago, so of course we have a massive sell-off this morning. The real question is how much of a quick shock like this is needed to trigger a broader sell-off. We've been in here bitching for literally months now that the market is completely ignoring the fundamentals.
  21. Chesapeake shares halted pending news. Edit: Rumor is Chapter 11
  22. Holy got damn short squeeze, CHK
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