NON_POLITICAL China Coronavirus THREAD

K1052 · Mar 5, 2020

I see we have another Princess Cruises situation, off California this time. Anybody getting on a cruise ship right now has got to be out of their mind.

Southwest Airlines has now warned on revenue.

BudAshes · Mar 5, 2020

Just found out my brother is trapped in northern Italy and trying to get back to Germany

BudAshes · Mar 5, 2020

K1052 said:
I see we have another Princess Cruises situation, off California this time. Anybody getting on a cruise ship right now has got to be out of their mind.

Southwest Airlines has now warned on revenue.

I would take that further and say that anyone that ever gets on a cruise ship is out of their mind.

K1052 · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
I would take that further and say that anyone that ever gets on a cruise ship is out of their mind.

Having been on one cruise and not ever planning on another it's hard to disagree.

purbeast0 · Mar 5, 2020

Svnla said:
Latest news -

United Airlines is cutting at least 10% of domestic flights and 20% of international flights because of lower demand. Lufthansa has canceled 7,100 flights.

OPEC is having an emergency meeting to deal with the lowest demand ever for crude oil, even lower than the recession of 2008.

There are more than 95,000 cases of infection around the world with over 3,300 deaths. At least 85 countries around the world have infection cases. Japan is shutting down all schools for now. Twitter, Facebook, Intel, Vevo, Mashable, Tiktok are dropping out of South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.

I got a free upgrade on United for my flight on Monday from economy to economy plus, which isn't much but it's more legroom. I'm not complaining!

I was wondering if it had to do with people being scared to fly now. It turns out it may be.

I'm hoping my return flight also gets us a free upgrade!

CZroe · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
Just found out my brother is trapped in northern Italy and trying to get back to Germany

Sucks. Good luck!

ponyo · Mar 5, 2020

Can you imagine the global economic recovery once this stupid virus scare dies down? People are going to have all this excess money and they're going to be itching to go out and spend. Staying at home gets old and people will get restless.

[DHT]Osiris · Mar 5, 2020

ponyo said:
People are going to have all this excess money

Bahahaha

snoopy7548 · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
Just found out my brother is trapped in northern Italy and trying to get back to Germany

You live in Germany? For some reason I thought you lived in the deep south of 'Murica.

BudAshes · Mar 5, 2020

snoopy7548 said:
You live in Germany? For some reason I thought you lived in the deep south of 'Murica.

I don't, he does. I've lived all over the western US and Canada, but I stay out of the south. Can't handle the humidity or the stupidity. My brother did say it's actually less crazy in Italy than in many other parts of Europe in terms of the peoples reactions. Italians just don't really give a fuck which is probably why they have so many infected.

ponyo · Mar 5, 2020

[DHT]Osiris said:
Bahahaha

I'm not going out to eat. I'm not traveling. I'm staying at home saving lot of money. Dining out and travel make up huge percentage of my discretionary spending. There are lot of people like me. When things return to semi-normal, I will have extra money to spend.

highland145 · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
I stay out of the south. Can't handle the humidity or the stupidity.

You quit me? Who knew?

[DHT]Osiris · Mar 5, 2020

ponyo said:
I'm not going out to eat. I'm not traveling. I'm staying at home saving lot of money. Dining out and travel make up huge percentage of my discretionary spending. There are lot of people like me. When things return to semi-normal, I will have extra money to spend.

Leftover discretionary spending goes to paying down debt. Just because I cook more more this month doesn't mean I have more money that i'm hoarding to spend next month, it just means I get to pay down more debt this month.

Do most people pay debt statically and just shift leftover fun money over? I'm speaking of normal people, not ATOT millionaires.

rcpratt · Mar 5, 2020

[DHT]Osiris said:
Leftover discretionary spending goes to paying down debt. Just because I cook more more this month doesn't mean I have more money that i'm hoarding to spend next month, it just means I get to pay down more debt this month.

Do most people pay debt statically and just shift leftover fun money over? I'm speaking of normal people, not ATOT millionaires.

Good for you, but I don't think that's in any way representative of the people on this forum, much less all the people in this country.

[DHT]Osiris · Mar 5, 2020

rcpratt said:
Good for you, but I don't think that's in any way representative of the people on this forum, much less all the people in this country.

Sorry, that wasn't meant to be a fluff piece, I'm just genuinely surprised that most people at the end of the month say 'sweet, i have an extra $100, better spend that on new shoes' instead of 'thank god i can finally get a little ahead of this stupid credit card/fix my leaky car/replace that broken toilet'.

CZroe · Mar 5, 2020

ponyo said:
I'm not going out to eat. I'm not traveling. I'm staying at home saving lot of money. Dining out and travel make up huge percentage of my discretionary spending. There are lot of people like me. When things return to semi-normal, I will have extra money to spend.

"Staying at home" and "saving lot of money" are oxymorons for most wage-earners. Staying home means closing shop.

IronWing · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
Just found out my brother is trapped in northern Italy and trying to get back to Germany

Sounds like a Hemingway novel. He should start drinking.

Svnla · Mar 5, 2020

IronWing said:
Sounds like a Hemingway novel. He should start drinking.

While drunk, he could start writing a novel.......... "The old man and the virus".

highland145 · Mar 5, 2020

[DHT]Osiris said:
Do most people pay debt statically and just shift leftover fun money over? I'm speaking of normal people, not ATOT millionaires.

I would say yes....found $$.

sdifox · Mar 5, 2020

BudAshes said:
Just found out my brother is trapped in northern Italy and trying to get back to Germany

Hike across the Alps to Switzerland :awe:

IronWing · Mar 5, 2020

sdifox said:
Hike across the Alps to Switzerland :awe:

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purbeast0 · Mar 5, 2020

This sounds about right for our society.'

ponyo · Mar 5, 2020

When you have to wipe your ass with wash cloth because everyone bought all the toilet paper, you're going to wish you hoarded toilet paper.

highland145 · Mar 5, 2020

ponyo said:
When you have to wipe your ass with wash cloth because everyone bought all the toilet paper, you're going to wish you hoarded toilet paper.

Just use left hand.

s0me0nesmind1 · Mar 5, 2020

K1052 said:
I see we have another Princess Cruises situation, off California this time. Anybody getting on a cruise ship right now has got to be out of their mind.

Southwest Airlines has now warned on revenue.

I've been on one cruise in my adultlife - a few in my kid life (that I don't have fond memories of from it being so long ago)....

All I can say is...never again. Wowzers. I have zero plans to ever go on a cruise in life ever again. The rooms are more crampt together than a god damn airline seat. The food is always horrendous because it's always basically microwave shit.

But yeah, with how close you have to be to SO many people on a cruise, it's a pandemic waiting to happen.

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