This is political about Covid-19

I’m thinking eggs......since this is the food area.......

Couldn’t agree more......that nut job will kill all of us to boost up his bank account.....

However, besides this sub form making me hungry, the States won’t buy in to it.....ever....especially mine, as the POTUS and my Gov. can’t stand each other

I doubt if the viruses follow the tweet

  Yes.  But you wear it sooooo much better.

Interesting metaphor.

Most people aren't really equipped to deal with these kinds of problems.  The lizard brain takes over and reason gets left behind.  Thanks to technology, we have lots of data but very little information, and it shows.  Most of my clients are pretty intelligent people.  The amazing thing is they can each take the same set of data, add in their personal philosophy on politics and economics, shake well and come up with diametrically opposed outcomes both of which are sourced to the same underlying data.

From an economic perspective, I can tell you small and mid-sized businesses need liquidity now.  Most small businesses have enough working capital for maybe 60 days.  It says a lot about our politicians that they couldn't pass a clean bill on that one issue without a pork-fest. 

If every man, woman, and child gets sick and we see Italian-level mortality rates, there will still be some 290+ million Americans able to vote.  I think we can probably manage a general election.  After some 32 million deaths I imagine the survivors might have a somewhat different perspective on what the government is capable of doing (vs. what its capable of promising).  Its unfortunate we don't do much in the way of history any more, as the 1918 flu pandemic would be a good model for understanding the societal impact of losing on the order of 1 in 15 people over the next two years.

hi ho hum

interesting ain't it?

Hopefully he doesn't want to sell me guns to get it back up... I want to shoot my new 22 cal before I die.

I'm glad I'm not there. Living in Japan is better but not perfect. Just some numbers:

I'm from Ohio:

Number of positive cases in Ohio yesterday- 3739 Number in Japan- 2935
Population of Ohio - 11M Pop. of Japan - 127M Population of US -329.45M
Positive cases in US -310,016

Of course, every family in Japan will receive 2 masks! if the Prime Minister's emergency response goes into effect. What about larger
families?



On another note:

The consulate is telling us to come home immediately or we may be denied reentry into the US indefinitely.  And the Japanese consulate states that any foreigner who leaves Japan after April 3rd will be denied re-entry indefinitely, as well as them barring any foreigners entering.  If you had left Japan before April 3rd it's probable you won't be allowed re-entry.

That's okay.  I don't want to return to the 「dookie」 show and I'm not leaving my wife here.

They should spare a thought for how their children are going to pay the mortgage and feed themselves when mom and dad are sick unto death and need help their kids can’t give.

What kind of body count do you feel is acceptable? If the virus is truly novel then there is no immunity in place to fend it of, and we should expect virtually *everyone* to get it (95%+) and the *current* US death rate offers us over 9 million US dead. The world rate is right at double that, as of current numbers reported, and Italy’s rate is twice *that*.

Those numbers are pretty baked in, btw...By which I mean, in the US at least, no meaningful steps to 「special」 the spread were taken before this week: there is nothing that can stop it, we can only slow it down - and even THAT is highly unpopular in some quarters. So, we pretty much can count on finding out what happens when everything goes wrong at once. It will take a few months, though: I have a birthday in six months, it’ll be interesting to see if a party of any size will be possible by then.

I’m not a huge conspiracy kind of guy, but does the timing of the Chinese Coronavirus seem pretty convenient for the “must defeat Trump” crowd, or what? Three years of Russia, impeachment and Ukraine with his poll numbers steadily rising (largely due to wildly successful economic policies), and now, a year before the election, a worldwide pandemic sufficient to shut down the world economy and put 10 million Americans out of work in three weeks...coincidence? I wonder sometimes.

As for the economy and getting back to work vs people catching/dying from the Chinese Coronavirus, I think we need to remember that people die every day from one thing or another and we don’t shut the world down over it. Disease, murder, auto and industrial accidents, etc etc are part of life. I don’t mean to make light of the pandemic or of the lives that will be lost to it. I do think we need to be mindful of the 98%+ of the rest of us who will survive it and go on with life, work, retirement, and everything else that costs money.

Those who are high risk should take necessarily precautions. Those with “normal” risk ought to make reasonable adjustments to their routines and get back to business while there’s still business to get back to. Nobody benefits from this economic situation being prolonged.

oh god yes lets put Biden in charge now.

Just start producing some PPE for those hospitals already for crying out loud, 「whiskey tango foxtrot」. Country that bound together to produce a 「dookie」 load of tanks and navy ships, and we cant make some simple paper products???

So bloody glad I live in Australia. I wasn't at all happy with the way the federal government had handled the Bushfire Crisis earlier but of late with this they have really started to lift in the last week.

At first we got mixed messages from the state governments to the federal but now it feels like it's all coming onto the same page.  Bi-partisan approach. 

Federal is starting to support business and those in need with financial support. Banks are even doing their bit and not calling in debt for those in need also.

People are starting to take ?dookie? seriously by having the lockdown rules made more black and white. Community is feeling more community like and caring.

Our curve is starting to flatten which is a good sign. But more time is needed.

It's gonna take a while. Stay safe and look after your neighbours.