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  • Posts: 13,576
    These big cancellations are very encouraging, these are the steps that will slow the spread and make people use caution.
    The effect on the economy is a bit scary, but better a recession than mass casualty scenario.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • Posts: 41,317
    Sing it with me...

    "And we would all go down together.
    We said we'd all go down together,
    Yes we would all go down together"
  • Posts: 31,423
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    Swedens biggest hotel chain SCANDIC is laying off 2000 people (half of it's employees) because of the virus and its board of directors will go go down 20 percent in pay.

    Smaller companies will fall one by one I fear, restaurants, shops and the like.

    Central Stockholm today:




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    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 31,516
    tish said:
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    Well, I'm expecting Mickey Mouse to fight some pirates next weekend aboard the Wonder! So no??? 
    (It sucks waiting for their policy to change...)
    Are you going on a cruise? 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Posts: 31,423
    edited March 2020
    nvm
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  • New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    rgambs said:
    These big cancellations are very encouraging, these are the steps that will slow the spread and make people use caution.
    The effect on the economy is a bit scary, but better a recession than mass casualty scenario.
    +1
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited March 2020
    josevolution said:
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    Are you going on a cruise? 
    I am not pleased to have the option to rebook my cruise as I would prefer a refund. Therefore, I have not yet cancelled a sailing on a boat that is in a 14 day route from New Orleans to San Diego to pick up * EDIT: AND DEBOARD * more passengers next Friday. Mexico will not be closing borders, including ports, should I wish to go ride a camel on the beach or visit a marine geyser. 

    Edit: I read that next week, Mexico, Canada, and US Health ministers will meet. 
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    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Posts: 30,876
    Goddammit I was just really ramping up my NHL watching.  I always do in February... I was amped.  
  • Posts: 11,851
    Lots and lots of cancellations and extra precautions.  

    Things are encouraging.  



    Philadelphia held a parade, St. Louis cancelled theirs and limited large social gatherings


  • Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Swedens biggest hotel chain SCANDIC is laying off 2000 people (half of it's employees) because of the virus and its board of directors will go go down 20 percent in pay.

    Smaller companies will fall one by one I fear, restaurants, shops and the like.

    Central Stockholm today:




    maybe that board of directors could have saved some jobs by going full on volunteer in their positions for the foreseeable future. sounds like capitalism to me. 
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




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    HughFreakingDillon said:
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    maybe that board of directors could have saved some jobs by going full on volunteer in their positions for the foreseeable future. sounds like capitalism to me. 
    Well.. it is a hotel chain... it is a private company. 

    Not every company can be as noble as Nintendo.


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  • Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,228
    Kat said:
    continued in additional tweets:
    Afraid to get sick as they are in their 80’s and hear that the novel coronavirus is affecting older people disproportionately. And that they don’t have family around to help them out. Through the crack in the window she handed me a $100 bill and a grocery list, and asked if I
    would be willing to buy her groceries.
    I bought the groceries and placed them in her trunk, and gave her back the change. She told me she had been sitting in the car for nearly 45 min before I had arrived, waiting to ask the right person for help.
    I know it’s a time of hysteria and nerves, but offer to help anyone you can. Not everyone has people to turn to.
    Now that was an outstanding thing to do and I would've done the same. I just would've exchanged phone numbers just so that she wouldn't worry while I shopped for her.

    Many in our society as we go forward are going to need someone's help in one way or another.

    Peace

    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    g under p said:
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    Now that was an outstanding thing to do and I would've done the same. I just would've exchanged phone numbers just so that she wouldn't worry while I shopped for her.

    Many in our society as we go forward are going to need someone's help in one way or another.

    Peace

    absolutely. 
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Posts: 31,423
    S O C I A L I S M (but not the goodhearted kind that gives it's people health care)

    Fed to pump in more than $1 trillion in dramatic ramping up of market intervention amid coronavirus meltdown

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/fed-to-pump-more-than-500-billion-into-short-term-bank-funding-expand-types-of-security-purchases.html



    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 30,876
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    S O C I A L I S M (but not the goodhearted kind that gives it's people health care)

    Fed to pump in more than $1 trillion in dramatic ramping up of market intervention amid coronavirus meltdown

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/fed-to-pump-more-than-500-billion-into-short-term-bank-funding-expand-types-of-security-purchases.html



    the fed has been doing this shit for two years.  It's sort of like quantitative easing, which is supposed to be a recession lever only.  This economy has been on a bull artificially for at least 18 months now, with the rate cuts, tax cuts and this.  
  • Posts: 31,423

    Disney park employees panic as parks remain open amid coronavirus pandemic

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/12/21176494/disney-parks-world-land-coronavirus-covid19-closure-california-florida-paris

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 31,423

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 31,423

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 30,876
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    He had dinner with him, sat right next to him.  There's zero chance they didn't shake hands.  
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    mrussel1 said:
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    He had dinner with him, sat right next to him.  There's zero chance they didn't shake hands.  
    And these are pictures they released I’m sure they were in close proximity while in private rooms talking ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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