SKORPI0
Lifer
- Jan 18, 2000
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blackangst1
Lifer
- Feb 23, 2005
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It didn't.
I heard about it weeks ago. My own company sent this out over a week ago:
Note "phishing emails ... already started to run rampant."
Thats excellent I love seeing this! Our company is especially diligent about phishing. In fact, every employee in the company, including Cxx positions, are phished 6 times/year. And, on top of that, if you fail 2 phishing attempts in a year, your bonus could be in jeopardy.
Eh from a financial standpoint, it's not gonna help people if they aren't working/if their place of business goes out of business.
I kinda feel like this is one of those moments where people just need scratch to keep the lights on. Either everyone agrees to not charge anyone for shit for a month, or someone gives them the money to cover it as a stopgap until we start the economic engine back up.
$4k is enough for families to live on with no other income for.... rent... utilities... car payments.... food... groceries... for 2+ months? Honestly I think that is MINIMUM for how long this will take before people feel safe going retail shopping. Amazon has gotta be fuckin happy right now.
Last I heard they were also talking of only doing something like $500 per person... so family of 4 would get $2k.
blackangst1
Lifer
- Feb 23, 2005
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Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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Bifurcated brain? We need/want to spread-out/lower the bell curve. Simple as that. The measures we take are for that, besides providing the medical community with what it needs as well as we can. Public morale is crucial. We don't want panic, we want responsible actions.
Your statement isn't P&N. Getting butt-hurt and partisan is P&N.
Also I have to respectfully disagree on the payroll taxes. While I love paying less in taxes, I just don't think a 4% (or whatever number they are talking about) is going to do anything for the majority of folks.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
There's some talk that schools here might keep kids home longer for March break which is coming up. Between all the strikes and now this, they are getting pretty good deal on time off these days. 
It's only speculation at this point though. There's been a potential (untested) case in one of the schools so they are taking precautions.
It's only speculation at this point though. There's been a potential (untested) case in one of the schools so they are taking precautions.I was estimating for 1 month. If we do a 2-month isolation, I'd say 8-10k, and yeah minimum.
A smart organization could scale for cost of living, but I doubt we'd get that ramped up fast enough.
Yeah I guess I'm not even thinking "full isolation"... I'm thinking more along the lines of how long it will take for the economy to get ramped up - stores to reopen, people to get their jobs back, travel to resume (and thus people get paid). You can make the quarantine 1 month all you want - that still doesn't mean on the day after a plane full of business people are jumping on the next plane and staying in hotels.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 41,354
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I just hit my usual Costco, Richmond, CA. Had a list of things I wanted to buy, over a dozen. After 15 minutes I'd found nothing. Finally found a 2.5lb jar of organic unsalted cashews, put it in my cart. I gave up, put it back and drove home. I'd found nothing else I wanted. The checkout lines were gargantuan. Didn't bother checking for a couple of non-essential things on my list.
The parking lot was 100% full! I've never seen that before and this was noon on a Thursday. In fact, as I left I saw that the street had cars parked everywhere on both sides. Those spaces are usually 90% empty.
So, I had problems parking.
The store itself was a madhouse. Of course, no grazing. Just shopping carts and 1/2 crazy people everywhere. Unbelievable amount of toilet paper on carts, many people had multiple huge packages of TP. I still don't get that. A fair amount of water.
The parking lot was 100% full! I've never seen that before and this was noon on a Thursday. In fact, as I left I saw that the street had cars parked everywhere on both sides. Those spaces are usually 90% empty.
So, I had problems parking.
The store itself was a madhouse. Of course, no grazing. Just shopping carts and 1/2 crazy people everywhere. Unbelievable amount of toilet paper on carts, many people had multiple huge packages of TP. I still don't get that. A fair amount of water.
blackangst1
Lifer
- Feb 23, 2005
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This is kinda FYGM mentality (but my retirement really isnt any elses responsibility) but Im a ways out from needing my investments. So Im not worried about it. Im a strong believer in dollar cost averaging so in the long run this will help me.
blackangst1
Lifer
- Feb 23, 2005
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The two Costcos near me are the same way. But theyve instituted a one-per-customer limit on things like water, TP, paper towels, etc.
Sonikku
Lifer
- Jun 23, 2005
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Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Woah so it's happening. They're shutting down schools for a couple weeks.
Well, at least the Italians have something to do while quarantined....
www.pcmag.com
Pornhub Is Giving Italians Free Premium Access During Coronavirus Quarantine
As Italy closes down non-essential businesses, Pornhub will allow Italian users to access premium content without having to put in their credit card information.
- Feb 14, 2002
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This already happened in China and South Korea. Americans are so clueless to the world around them. They didn't care about SARS/MERS, bird flu, swine flu, and this coronavirus because it happened elsewhere. But coronavirus managed to spread to the West unlike the above. So we're now going to experience firsthand what China and South Korea already experienced.
Restaurants are going to suffer massively. Retail is going to get killed. Places in China and South Korea are ghost towns. Retailers and shop owners have no customers. It's going to get bad. But it doesn't mean the end of the world. Things will recover. New businesses will take the place of old ones. But there's going to be lot of pain in the meantime. Which is what the financial markets are now trying to price in.
ultimatebob
Lifer
- Jul 1, 2001
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Dag nab it, I had a vacation to California scheduled for early April. I hope that they'll reopen soon!
CZroe
Lifer
- Jun 24, 2001
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Signing up for VPN.Well, at least the Italians have something to do while quarantined....
Pornhub Is Giving Italians Free Premium Access During Coronavirus Quarantine
As Italy closes down non-essential businesses, Pornhub will allow Italian users to access premium content without having to put in their credit card information.
...
It'll be easier to explain on the credit card statement.
Sonikku
Lifer
- Jun 23, 2005
- 15,916
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Oh he'll pass out free cash alright, to big business. Rest of Americans can go F themselves.
What we really need is sick days required by law so the poorest of us can afford to stay home if sick.
IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
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