Gyroscopic Investing

Xan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:11 pm Saw an interesting article somewhere about dairies that are equipped to only supply milk in 8oz containers (for schools) and shredded cheese in 20lb bags (for restaurants). People's houses need much bigger milks and much smaller cheeses!

At many dairy processors, for example, the machinery is designed to package shredded cheese in large bags for restaurants or place milk in small cartons for schools, rather than arrange the products in retail-friendly containers.

To repurpose those plants to put cheese in the 8 oz. bags that sell in grocery stores or bottle milk in gallon jugs would require millions of dollars in investment. For now, some processors have concluded that spending the money isn’t worth it.

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:36 pm I hope we all like eating at McDonalds and buying from Amazon. Because it feels like that is all that is going to be left when the dust settles.

shekels wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:40 pm Covid death rates per one Million population. as of April 8, 2020

39.3923648256 Deaths Per One Million People in U.S.


United States Confirmed deaths (absolute) 12,888
Population (in millions) 327.17
Deaths per million 39.39


https://www.statista.com/statistics/110 ... habitants/

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:35 am There’s a NYT article, Food Waste of the Pandemic, which is too depressing to even quote, for the most part. Lots of buried onions (“People don’t make onion rings at home”) and purposely spilled milk.

Regarding your note above, Xan:

At many dairy processors, for example, the machinery is designed to package shredded cheese in large bags for restaurants or place milk in small cartons for schools, rather than arrange the products in retail-friendly containers.

To repurpose those plants to put cheese in the 8 oz. bags that sell in grocery stores or bottle milk in gallon jugs would require millions of dollars in investment. For now, some processors have concluded that spending the money isn’t worth it.

EDIT: Here’s the link if anyone feels like crying: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/busi ... -food.html

WASHINGTON — The captain had reached a breaking point.

The aircraft carrier he commanded, the Theodore Roosevelt, was docked in Guam as the coronavirus raced unchecked through its narrow corridors. The warship’s doctors estimated that more than 50 crew members would die, but Capt. Brett E. Crozier’s superiors were balking at what they considered his drastic request to evacuate nearly the entire ship.

Captain Crozier was haunted by the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship of 2,600 passengers in individual cabins where the virus had killed eight people and infected more than 700. The situation on his ship had the potential to be far worse: nearly 5,000 sailors crammed in shared berths, sometimes stacked three high. Eight of his sailors with severe Covid-19 symptoms had already been evacuated to the Navy’s hospital in Guam.

On March 30, after four days of rebuffs from his superiors, Captain Crozier sat down to compose an email. “Sailors don’t need to die,” he wrote to 20 other people, all Navy personnel in the Pacific, asking for help. A Naval Academy graduate with nearly 30 years of military service, the captain knew the email would most likely end his career, his friends said in interviews. The military prizes its chain of command, and the appropriate course would have been for the captain to continue to push his superiors for action.

He hit “send” anyway.

Three weeks later, the fired captain is battling the coronavirus himself, 584 other crew members have tested positive and the acting Navy secretary has resigned. The secretary, Thomas B. Modly, removed the captain because he thought that was what President Trump wanted, officials said. Mr. Modly, the officials said, was keenly aware that his predecessor in the job had been fired after tangling with Mr. Trump. But in trying to please the president, Mr. Modly miscalculated and destroyed his own career.

WiseOne wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:23 pmI found it interesting that people cooking at home are eating fewer vegetables than they get on their plates at a restaurant.

Mr. Trump reposted a Twitter message that said “Time to #FireFauci” as he rejected criticism of his slow initial response to the pandemic that has now killed more than 22,000 people in the United States. The president privately has been irritated at times with Dr. Fauci, but the Twitter message was the most explicit he has been in letting that show publicly.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:23 am How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
A Visual Capitalist Infographic
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/media- ... -covid-19/

even better: What Shoppers are Buying
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/shoppe ... -covid-19/

shekels wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:44 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:23 am ...
even better: What Shoppers are Buying
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/shoppe ... -covid-19/

What kind of Propaganda is this..
Where are the Guns and Ammo..

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:49 am

shekels wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:44 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:23 am ...
even better: What Shoppers are Buying
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/shoppe ... -covid-19/

What kind of Propaganda is this..
Where are the Guns and Ammo..

Aisle 3, just next to the cans of Chef Boyardee.

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:21 am Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Bans Domestic Trade of Wild Animals, but Offers Tax Breaks for Exports
China disapproves of ‘recklessly eating wild animals’ as its Finance Ministry offers incentives to ship them abroad
Oh, CCP. I'll take Biden any day of the week. No more complaining from me
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amid-coron ... 1586683800

Less than a month later, China’s Ministry of Finance and tax authority said on March 17 they would raise value-added tax rebates on nearly 1,500 Chinese products, including offering a 9% rebate on the export of animal products such as edible snakes and turtles, primate meat, beaver and civet musk, and rhino horns, a Chinese government document shows.

And yet, even small amounts of exports could pose a risk, should wild animals prove to be the source of pandemics, as some Chinese reports suggest. The U.S. was the biggest importer of China’s animal products used in pharmaceuticals, such as civet and beaver, buying around $865,000 over January and February 2020, according to the data.

Even I am astonished by these graphs. I was expecting to see something in the graphs by week 13, even if I wasn’t expecting anything scary. But there’s just nothing. And you can’t say the lockdown caused this, because the UK lockdown had only been going for four days by this time. We’ve locked down the country for a supposed mass killer that still isn’t visible in the stats even after the lockdown was declared. We locked the country down for something that at the time only existed in Neil Ferguson’s dodgy computer models. link

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:26 pm oh no, you still said it!