Why Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Flourish. And Why It Matters. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories.html The NYT is disgusting, I stopped reading the article as soon as this predictable sentence was uttered as a premise: and, in the United States, a pre...

Stocks higher on news that Bernie drops out of race. I guess stocks think Sanders would have been bad for the economy! ::) Wow! I wonder how long the boost will last. As I'm listening to him speak live on C-Span I'm reminded at how overjoyed I am that he no longer has an kind of formal national pla...

Stocks higher on news that Bernie drops out of race.

I guess stocks think Sanders would have been bad for the economy!

Nice for you that your world allows that. In my world, if I don't text, it takes hours if not days to get a response by email.

vnatale wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:32 pm

I can get everything else done that a cell phone can do better or faster or both in some other way. ESPECIALLY when I am home.

Vinny

How do you text? My adult children, friends and GF using texting as their main form of communication.

Vinny, you and my GF must be the only 2 people left on earth that still use ipods rather than their phones for music. 2001 called and wants their music player back.

I almost chose the lift/reimpose option, but I think unrest will win out.

I see some people walking around with N95 masks. That really ticks me off. In some cases, maybe those N95 masks are used or the material is slightly expired, so hospitals can't accept them as donations but the owners can still wear them? ... I’m totally stuck in this CATCH-22 . We have N95 masks th...

I'm just looking for the gyms and parks to reopen. The rest, I can be patient for.

My friend's son is a paramedic. He says the number of calls he gets has gone up and down roughly in sync with my plot. So have hospital admissions. There are a lot of variables to be sure, like increases in test availability, but it looks like the wave effect is real. Are you still predicting the l...

dualstow wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:17 pm

Some booze news:

The wisdom of government just can not be understated.

Get this. One of my friends just received a $1,000 ticket from the police for riding in a car with a non-family member. This they considered to be breaking the social distancing mandate. Holy crap. This thing just keeps getting more real by the day. I didn't realize that Vancouver had become the Fo...