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

[XXL TideFan]

I bet that stretch gets 10,000 vehicles a day. Do you think Meeting could take up the slack?

On the restaurant guy, many of the food service companies have cut inventories and instituted direct sales to public. With the beef and pork supply issues, it might be a bit recovering.

Check this out. Still sending meat to Chicoms.
Feed China First

“While pork supplies tightened as the number of pigs slaughtered each day plunged by about 40% since mid-March, shipments of American pork to China more than quadrupled over the same period, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. A meaty problem

 

[mando]

If there was already some struggles with certain locations by corporations they will most assuredly be the first to go as business adjust to their new revenue numbers. If they were already looking for a way out this gives them that path. Businesses will balance the books and be profitable whether big or small or close their doors eventually. Unfortunately lots of hard working people will be left to deal with the fall out.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Check this out. Still sending meat to Chicoms.
Feed China First

“While pork supplies tightened as the number of pigs slaughtered each day plunged by about 40% since mid-March, shipments of American pork to China more than quadrupled over the same period, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. A meaty problem

I don't see this as negatively as others. Pork farmers have them in the queue, they're coming to market, and they'll have to go to waste if the processors aren't open. The pork disease in China - and the resultant shortage there - has offset pure devastation in the U.S. pork industry. It's still very bad. The domestic supply channel issue, in my estimation, is due to me and a few others stocking our freezers with pork chops. You can only truck so much to the local Publix at a time.

In this period of massive market disruption, the media will find one-offs to show misguided efforts and unintended consequences involving various industries - just like those lazy journalists who are looking for (or waiting like a baby bird to be spoon fed) ways to blame or praise their favorite politician.

RTR,

Tim

 

[XXL TideFan]

I will have to disagree with you. China pays a premium, now we will pay a higher premium. The Chicoms should have been cut off. Don’t compound our issues. Then again, I’m a fan of a few years of isolationism to straighten out our mess.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I will have to disagree with you. China pays a premium, now we will pay a higher premium. The Chicoms should have been cut off. Don’t compound our issues. Then again, I’m a fan of a few years of isolationism to straighten out our mess.

Well, if we were social media punks, lacking self-awareness and looking to score a sound bite, I guess this is the point where we should call each other names and pursue a scorched earth approach on a sports board...

Roll Tide, brother.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Not my style brother, I just react in kind.

 

[TerryP]

Part of me LOVES that idea.

I bet that stretch gets 10,000 vehicles a day. Do you think Meeting could take up the slack?

I don't see how. I haven't read the article...just saw he'd posted new content on a traffic counter.

Rutledge couldn't handle the traffic even if it was split with Meeting. A lot of residential to consider in that idea.

I'll see if I can find the article. Well. I'll go get it in a minute.

On the restaurant guy, many of the food service companies have cut inventories and instituted direct sales to public. With the beef and pork supply issues, it might be a bit recovering.

The guy in AL isn't your Tuesday/Thursday Sysco guy...puts him a bit of a different category even with his seating.

 

[TerryP]

I was going to ask you how the restaurants were right now, if they are open. Want to try and get over there in the next couple months, but obviously the food is a big part of it.

Can't really answer that working at night in a shut down, downtown. I'm not in the eating/drinking district.

A friend, pool player, just told me APA opens back on the 19th with bars at 50%.

 

[JoshB]

Not my style brother, I just react in kind.

Oh, the irony. I point out you said something unbelievably ignorant and you respond by screaming (or typing in caps) curse words at me, calling me boy, a "c*cksucker" and whatever other 12-year old insults you could come up with. Saying that is you "reacting in kind" would be like saying you responded to someone dropping trash on your lawn to shooting them in the face was "reacting in kind."

 

[TerryP]

Oh, the irony. I point out you said something unbelievably ignorant and you respond by screaming (or typing in caps) curse words at me, calling me boy, a "c*cksucker" and whatever other 12-year old insults you could come up with. Saying that is you "reacting in kind" would be like saying you responded to someone dropping trash on your lawn to shooting them in the face was "reacting in kind."

Let's let this settle down, shall we?

 

[LeGarrette]

Just an observation and some perspective.

We have grocery stores that are limiting the number of people in a store, some requiring masks, and almost all enforcing 6' social distancing with signs on the floors.

What are they doing to not contribute to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc?

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com...pkKHjfhiEqD8-psno_Ozah0V1pJkZCFkDzCovvekslscc

 

[RollllTide!]

This shlt is getting out of hand.

NSFW due to language

 

[TerryP]

The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on college sports continued Monday when Florida Tech announced the immediate elimination of its football program.

The NCAA Division II school in Melbourne is believed to be the first program to disband football in the wake of the public health and economic crisis. The program was started in 2011 and recruited the Tampa Bay area heavily; a dozen players on its roster were from local high schools.

“The unprecedented uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the university to make difficult personnel and programmatic decisions,” the school explained in a Q&A on its website. “Eliminating the expense of the football program is a necessary step to ensure that Florida Tech can continue meeting its core educational mission.”

The school spent $3.1 million on football during the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to figures submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. That’s about 29 percent of the athletic department’s $10.7 million budget.

Florida Tech eliminates football because of coronavirus pandemic

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I didn't know there was a Florida Tech, or that they had a football team.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Funny rant

Bryan Adams Attacks China

 

[JoshB]

Just an observation and some perspective.

We have grocery stores that are limiting the number of people in a store, some requiring masks, and almost all enforcing 6' social distancing with signs on the floors.

What are they doing to not contribute to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc?

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com...pkKHjfhiEqD8-psno_Ozah0V1pJkZCFkDzCovvekslscc

What am I missing here? Can you catch diabetes or cardiovascular disease by someone coughing on you?

 

[JoshB]

The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on college sports continued Monday when Florida Tech announced the immediate elimination of its football program.

The NCAA Division II school in Melbourne is believed to be the first program to disband football in the wake of the public health and economic crisis. The program was started in 2011 and recruited the Tampa Bay area heavily; a dozen players on its roster were from local high schools.

“The unprecedented uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the university to make difficult personnel and programmatic decisions,” the school explained in a Q&A on its website. “Eliminating the expense of the football program is a necessary step to ensure that Florida Tech can continue meeting its core educational mission.”

The school spent $3.1 million on football during the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to figures submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. That’s about 29 percent of the athletic department’s $10.7 million budget.

Florida Tech eliminates football because of coronavirus pandemic

We're definitely going to see a lot more sports programs being disbanded but most of it will be the smaller sports and not the one sport that actually generates money for the school.

 

[LeGarrette]

What am I missing here? Can you catch diabetes or cardiovascular disease by someone coughing on you?

You don't see the irony that the same grocery stores mandating masks and social distancing are providing food with ingrediants like high fructose syrup and other things that contribute to diabetes?

 

[18Champs]

 

[planomateo]

Why Used Car Dealers Fear a Hertz Bankruptcy

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