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As it happens, I owe Uncle Sam 1200 this year, so pulling the old uno reverse card trick...


The other 1200, idk, either throw it in savings or buy some company stock, it's quite undervalued right now, and once demand returns, could see that netting a few grand...

moab wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:17 am

Do you think we'll get to the point where they ban travel state to state?

If they're seriously considering opening some areas up in the very near future, I feel like it's unavoidable...

Well, 2 week lockdown in Montana...

boskone wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:18 am

flybynight wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:58 am

U.S. now has the third highest number of covid19 infected in the world. Right behind Italy

What is that as a proportion of the population, though? Seems like a more useful metric; the US does have 5 or so times Italy's population.

166/million for the US vs 1144 for Italy

Yeah, it feels the way most places have gone through with "lockdowns" is pretty counterproductive. They should really be enforcing a max occupancy for stores. Folks are getting so stir crazy they're going to the grocery store more often just to get out of the house. Crazy packed even now that most o...

I, ah, gassed up the car again even though it was only down a quarter of a tank. No evidence I can see that any kind of fuel shortage is in the offing. But I'm just anxious in general lately and keeping the car topped off seems to help. It would be a distribution failure if that were to happen, not...

Well... It's in the top ten causes of death for the US...

Threw this together because I was curious about the effects of the lockdown in Italy. Doesn't really seem to have done a whole heck of a lot yet...

FlashDaddy wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:04 am

This is true of Grabagun.comwhich also adds "Firearm Shipments to PA & CA are Paused". Not sure what is going on there.

Both are under lockdown. Would have to look at the specific exemptions, but I'd be surprised if FFLs meet their definition of "life sustaining retail"

Fucking weird time to be living in. My work (an oil refinery) just distributed stickers to put on our badges so we can show police if the city gets quarantined...

About two weeks ago I made a prediction in this thread about how things would look in two weeks. How did I do? ... In the data so far, the lag has been pretty consistent: the number of known outcomes was approximately the total number of cases from two weeks prior. If that trend holds, in about two...

Six cases in Montana. Weird mix of "it's a hoax/flu" and "OMG the world is ending" restaurants and bars are packed, shelves are getting stripped quick.


Every local facebook page is completely intolerable now. Just constant bitching about people hoarding toilet paper.

Bolsonaro is positive a few days after meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

https://www.foxnews.com/world/brazil-bo ... oronavirus


Man, you think the markets have been hit hard now, just imagine Trump testing positive...

Welp, travel and trade banned with Europe. Just travel from the EU. The UK is not closed off for the time being. Trade of goods is not restricted. You could be forgiven for making that mistake if you listened to the speech announcing travel restrictions: "and these prohibitions will not only apply ...

Italy reported more deaths today than the worst day in China


Eesh

Few things about Germany that may be contributing to the 0 deaths so far: - They have a ton of ICU beds, something like 3x per capita compared to the USA. Hospitalization is apparently pretty important with this disease, because folks can go from minimal symptoms to needing oxygen within hours. - Mo...

This is what worries me: Status of the cases in Italy: https://i.imgur.com/e5gUa8W.jpg From top to bottom: Deceased (2.6%) Intensive Care (9.3%) Symptomatic in Hospital (35.5%) Home Quarantine (48.1%) Recovered (4.4%) Even if most of those symptomatic folks could just be symptomatic at home in a wid...

First US death, in WA state


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ER9kU_sWoAA ... me=900x900

Go to a hispanic market. Big bags of white rice and pinto beans. Super cheap. Pick up a big jug of oil while you're at it and salt. May not be the tastiest, but you can live a long time on a hundred bucks of that. Most hispanic markets will have bags of dried spices cheap too. Onion and garlic powde...

2% death rate may not sound alarming. But if everyone in US gets it. 2% x 300,000,000 = 6,000,000 That’s a lot of American deaths. That's 2% with relatively few infected. In China at least, upwards of 10% of infections ended up on ventilators. There's just not the medical infrastructure to support ...

Very much going to depend on the compression ratio of the engine too. I actually work at an oil refinery. For shits and giggles I just looked up the octane of our straight run Naptha, last sample was 56. Might successfully run in a small, low compression engine, but anything remotely resembling a mo...

New confirmed case in Japan, symptoms developed while he was in Hawaii https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200214/k10012286491000.html According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it has been confirmed that men in their 60s living in Aichi Prefecture are infected with the new coronavirus. ...

Another H2H transmission in the US, Husband to Wife again.

https://twitter.com/AaronGroffTV/status ... 3397550080