OT: Now that the world is ending How will you spend your time?
I'm thinking of heading to Nebraska, I keep dreaming of an old women playing guitar on her front porch. Surrounded by acres of corn
Or are you going to Vegas to hang out with the dark man?
Either way I'd like to know your plans
So you clearly can not comprehend the combination of mortality rates along with level of contagiousness and incubation period.
It's never just one thing man. I am shocked at the level of stupidity and irresponsibility on this blog. I expect better from us.
Thank you for the kind words, but I fully comprehend the relationship between those factors (mostly correlative not causitive). A virus could be extremely contagious and have a practically zero mortality rate. What I am more concerned about is knee jerk reactions which crater an economy in the name of "DOING SOMETHING". I am not going to be Stalin level callous and say a million deaths is just a statistic, but what level of deaths do we panic at. The numbers for the flu are 30-70K a year in the US, yet somehow we keep going to sporting events and concerts as if life goes on. Analyzing what is happening in China indicates that we are not going to be approaching that level of lethality in the States, and yet we are shutting down life in fear. I don't think tha tis the way to go. Some precautions make sense. My mother lives in a senior care facility. They have just locked down on visitors. Makes sense as it warehouses a bunch of compromised 70,80.90 years olds in close proximity. Closing universities, not so much
If you think the Chinese basically enacted martial law in a province of 60 plus million people and tanked their GDP growth for shits and giggles, you might want to buy a lot of stock in cruise line companies.
I am waiting for the Dow to drop below my MGO points, at which point I will become a day trader, specializing mostly in toilet paper stocks, namely Charmin
A Charmin clean booty is a thing of beauty
We don't talk about MGoPoints during the coronavirus outbreak.
Or before.
Or after.
Arguing on the Internet.
I shall never relent until you admit that my opinion is superior to your opinion.
Well now that March Madness is probably getting the axe too, I guess I'll just lie in bed, stare at the ceiling, and slip slowly into madness. But hey....I guess my wife gets to enjoy sports being on in the house less often, so yay for her, I suppose.
Staring at the very real possibility of there not being a sport on that's worth watching for the next five and a half months. And then if this is still going on by the time college football and NFL season rolls around.....god help us all.
would you say that you'll slip slowly into..... March madness?
We were going to go to a large volleyball tournament this weekend that my daughter was playing in, but that's since been canceled. So to lighten the blow of that, we're going to the damn beach. OBX here we come.
I'm going to stop at a DIY store on the way home and buy a bidet. After installation, I'll sell my TP on the black market and make hundreds. I'll hold all the power, much like Gary Oldman in 'The Book of Eli'. Seriously though, I'm thinking of hosting a corona party this weekend. Food, beer, and a triple feature - Contagion, Outbreak, and World War Z. Should be a real hoot.
Each and every day all I see is more proof of the accuracy of H.L. Mencken's dictum that "no one ever went broke under-estimating the intelligence of the American public", and the reaction to coronavirus is the ultimate. We have had corona viruses come and go before, and somehow civilization still stands. How about getting all worked up about the 30-70,000 americans who die every year from the flu. How about the fact that we still haven't cured other viral infections like thefreakin' common cold. When this passes, and all the confederacy of dunces who are jamming these preventative measures down our throats are demonstrated to be the jerk-offs that they really are, will we not listen to them next time? I doubt it. The media is in full if it bleeds it leads mode, and they will ramp it up again.
Finally, for the panic mongered sheep among you who want to binge buy crap in preparation for the end of the world, I would highly recommend you stop buying all the TP (the sane people among might need a couple rolls),and buy Gatorade. That's the best thing to have to deal with the type of illness you will suffer form for about 3 days (yeah, yeah, unless you have a compromised immune system blah,blah, blah)
I'm just amazed that you've made your yearly mgopoints total this week alone... Always fun to watch someone come out of the shadows to post.
I don't post very often, and really don't know how to play the points game. I usually just come to the site to get the write ups on the Michigan sports that I love. It has been patently obvious to me for some time that my worldview does not comport well with the majority on this board. So, yeah I guess i lurk in the shadows form your point of view.
There are things worse than death.
My hope is undimmed.
Ignoring all the wimps who are buying into this unnecessary drama. I choose to live my normal life, as much as I can. The world won't end in 2020, there will be a 2021...
March 12th, 2020 at 10:10 PM ^
It's just going to be a frustrating 2020 and 2021 given the recession we've now pushed ourselves into.
Rereading Connie Willis' The Doomsday Book.
I’m going to put Galaxy Quest on a loop and finally implement my “pants optional” fashion strategy.
Never give up! Never surrender!
Irish Whisky - Home brewed Beer - Smoker
I've been wanting to perfect my brisket technique, I'd like to sort that out before the end.
I may go fishing, I hear it's a good place to keep a good personal distance.
You and I would get along. Ironic that the lifestyle means we would be waving at each other across the lake and never really hang out.
The market is on sale....
March 12th, 2020 at 10:14 PM ^
Maybe not just yet it isn't. If you walk into Dollar Tree and get excited that your tab isn't very high at the checkout counter, perhaps the pile of junk here might appeal to you at these "bargain" prices.
We're heading into a recession. The Russia-Saudi oil mess earlier this week is full-on black swan stuff. Companies/clients are calling up their banks and drawing down their cash (following the lead of huge investment firms like Blackstone and Carlyle), further exasperating the financial system. Yippee.