| LIFE CV-19: Effects on life, work, and sports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the nation’s restaurants and places of entertainment will be closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He also encouraged people not to go to their workplaces unless absolutely necessary.
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#80 said:
@TerryP .... you ever try Modelo Especial?
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I don't eat out often. It's partly the food quality, partly my diet, and largely due to eating a lot of organic foods.

BUT, if asked, I'm headed to Los Arcos for a few enchiladas and a large Modelo...where my goal is "the plate gets cold after the beer gets hot."
 
planomateo said:
The global economy is in a tailspin, which will impact everything.
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the question remains how do you react. I'm in a "where do I invest" mode...

Are you working from home?

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TerryP said:
the question remains how do you react. I'm in a "where do I invest" mode...

Are you working from home?

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High risk is where I'm going. Luckily the majority of my 401k I can move into stocks. I'm currently down 13%.

Option to work from home, but I'm going into the office. All travel to clients have been stopped.
 
planomateo said:
I'm of the opinion the worst of covid-19 is still a few months away. Also of the opinion that we're just barely scratching the surface right now.

Just a feeling I have, hope I'm wrong.
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I think you can look at China as an example to at least align some expectations. The scale could be different due to the population. Also the first is usually the worse since they have to discover everything about the virus. Their first case was 12/31/19 as I recall. They are now 2 1/2 months in and it seems like things are starting to get controlled or at least stabilized. They also were seeing this during the worse time for viruses in the dead of winter. Not sure how much longer before things start loosening up for them.

Seems like the timeline would not be any worse than that. My opinion is the economic fall out will be a totally different longer term impact that will effect more people. Trying to not be insensitive in comparing someone losing a loved one to financials, just saying more people will be directly impacted by the financial fallout.
 
mando said:
I think you can look at China as an example to at least align some expectations. The scale could be different due to the population. Also the first is usually the worse since they have to discover everything about the virus. Their first case was 12/31/19 as I recall. They are now 2 1/2 months in and it seems like things are starting to get controlled or at least stabilized. They also were seeing this during the worse time for viruses in the dead of winter. Not sure how much longer before things start loosening up for them.

Seems like the timeline would not be any worse than that. My opinion is the economic fall out will be a totally different longer term impact that will effect more people. Trying to not be insensitive in comparing someone losing a loved one to financials, just saying more people will be directly impacted by the financial fallout.
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China has had some success due to draconian measures implemented. That is not happening in this country.
 
mando said:
I think you can look at China as an example to at least align some expectations. The scale could be different due to the population. Also the first is usually the worse since they have to discover everything about the virus. Their first case was 12/31/19 as I recall. They are now 2 1/2 months in and it seems like things are starting to get controlled or at least stabilized. They also were seeing this during the worse time for viruses in the dead of winter. Not sure how much longer before things start loosening up for them.

Seems like the timeline would not be any worse than that. My opinion is the economic fall out will be a totally different longer term impact that will effect more people. Trying to not be insensitive in comparing someone losing a loved one to financials, just saying more people will be directly impacted by the financial fallout.
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Give this a read, just ran across this from the Twitter feed I mention in above thread.

Science | AAAS

www.sciencemag.org www.sciencemag.org
 
planomateo said:
I'm of the opinion the worst of covid-19 is still a few months away. Also of the opinion that we're just barely scratching the surface right now.

Just a feeling I have, hope I'm wrong.
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Just hope ur wrong also.....
But I am optimistic...we have a good plan nationally moving forward.....
And got on this relatively quickly....
The economics..... as @mando pointed out may last for awhile longer...
 
50+yeartidefan said:
Just hope ur wrong also.....
But I am optimistic...we have a good plan nationally moving forward.....
And got on this relatively quickly....
The economics..... as @mando pointed out may last for awhile longer...
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Negative, Americans in general aren't taking this serious.

I don't believe America is equipped to shutdown like other countries have to further stop the spread.

We aren't testing like we should be, per the numbers on the CDC site. Granted they're rationing test kits at the moment. Per the CDC site, ~20k have been completed in the US (with some exclusions and caveats).

At the end of the day, the mortality rate may end up being low. I hope that is the case. Far too early to tell.
 
50+yeartidefan said:
Just hope ur wrong also.....
But I am optimistic...we have a good plan nationally moving forward.....
And got on this relatively quickly....
The economics..... as @mando pointed out may last for awhile longer...
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I'm not sure how you can say "got on this relatively quickly" far from the case. We have been the very worst of major countries as far as testing goes.
Epic failure.
 
I keep hearing this thing about some state only getting x number of tests. Last I heard, the tests required particular equipment and not all places have that equipment. This isn't a case of the strep test where you swab and then check it a few minutes later. This has to have the RNA replicated on machines, then reagents mixed properly and applied, then time to wait for a result. Some places have one or the other part. The US has no approved that that you can just take at any hospital. There are a ton of reasons for that, but FDA rules not being waved soon enough and low availability of known virus samples are a huge part of it.
 

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