LinvilleGorge

I've loved Colorado, but the Front Range is just way too damn crowded now. All of the things I moved out here for 13 years ago are just a lot less enjoyable now due to the crowds. I-70 to and from the mountains is a total disaster. When we first moved out here, Charlotte traffic was way worse than Denver traffic. That comparison reversed probably 7-8 years ago. The streams are packed shoulder to shoulder with fishermen. The mountain biking and hiking trails are packed. The Jeep trails are almost as packed as I-70. The breweries are packed. I haven't completely ruled out a return to CO, but if it happens it'll be to the western slope. If it's a reasonable day trip from the Front Range, I don't want any part of it.

Yeah, I was already furloughed and we still expect my wife to be furloughed any day now. The house went under contract today though, so hopefully we'll be sitting on a pile of cash soon. I'd rather be sitting on a pile of cash right now than have a home with a considerable mortgage left on it. I'm still not convinced the housing market isn't going to take a big hit. This will allow us to bounce back to NC temporarily and let me focus all my attention on my business. Then we'll look to bounce back out west next summer. The wife green lit Montana and that's what got me motivated to sell the house here in Colorado.

This is how stimulus is supposed to work. I think a lot of it just went straight into a bank account though. I know mine did.

No desire. My two least favorite school subjects were foreign language and math. Programming is like a combination of both. I'd be miserable. Much thanks on helping hand, but it would just be an awful fit.

I absolutely would, but that's entirely out of my wheelhouse. Now if you need someone to sell something... well, holla!

Well, that backfired... https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/05/11/health-department-closes-castle-rock-opened-dining-room/

Sorry to hear it, man. The longer this goes the more people that are going to end up in this boat. I was furloughed over a month ago. If you haven't applied for unemployment stop whatever you're doing right now and do that right now. The systems are swamped. It might not be a quick process. We're fortunate that my wife hasn't been furloughed... yet. But her workplace has been talking furloughs and layoffs since the beginning of this, so honestly it won't be the least bit surprising if it happens.

Definitely concerning but also a rare complication. 85 total confirmed cases throughout the country.

We're at the point that if we don't start doing something we're going to be staring down the barrel of the Great Depression 2.0. We just need people to not be idiots which is the tough part. Start fining the poo out of people and maybe it'll have the desired effect.

We've flattened the poo out of it vs. projections. Now is the time to start opening back up but fining the poo out of people who aren't following precautions.

They're being sued by the County of Charleston, not the city. I was like, why the hell would the CITY of Charleston be suing over this and based on what grounds? I know Charleston well. My wife went to CofC and we lived down there for awhile. I like it, but you'll never catch me down there between between June and August. Absolutely oppressive heat.

All viruses mutate and evolve. All indications are that COVID mutates significantly more slowly than the flu. That should allow a vaccine to be more effective. Most viruses tend to evolve to become less lethal, not more so. Viruses that are less deadly are a lot more biologically successful. Just look at the common cold and common flu. Not very deadly, super biologically successful. MERS, SARS, Ebola, etc. Very deadly, not very biologically successful.

There's rednecks, people of low education, and just general morons everywhere. I gotta say, in my town there's a real effort to socially distance and mask wearing is close to 100%. But, there's no shortage of pretentious entitled assholes to deal with. You win some you lose some.

CMC's home town is not off to a good start after the stay at home mandate was lifted. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/dozens-of-people-pack-into-castle-rock-restaurant-in-face-of-public-health-order

The U.S. and the rest of the world will have to break their addiction to cheap poo for that to happen. Good luck with that. I could see this kicking off a major wave of getting India and other places in SE Asia outside of China ramped up to take a bite out of some of China's manufacturing monopoly.

I applaud your company. I very seriously doubt many others will follow suit. Hopefully enough do that it seriously impacts companies' abilities to land and retain top talent when they maintain a rigid "butts in seats" mentality.

It's definitely less contagious in warmer weather. "Less contagious" still means it can spread like wildfire anyway if people are idiots.

If you're being mindful of touching your face and ensuring you wash your hands before you do so, I don't really see a big benefit of wearing gloves.

This thread is very close to getting locked for good at this point. It's virtually devoid of productive conversation and has devolved into pure political sniping. Knock it the fug off.

It's the American way. These large corporations getting the bailouts spent a lot of money financing political campaigns. Nothing matters until there is legit campaign financing regulation changes. Until then, our representatives are bought and paid for before they ever step foot in office. Your support (or lack thereof) matters on election day and that's it.

Mine too. Right up until you get on the phone. Then she's craving your undivided attention. I was just talking to my neighbor the other day who also has a four year old daughter (their birthdays are only a couple of weeks apart) and he's dealing with the same thing, so maybe it's just a this age thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html Over all, Dr. Grubaugh estimated, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 percent of the sequenced viruses across the country. “New York acted as the Grand Central Station for this virus, with the opportunity to move from there in so many directions, to so many places,” said David Engelthaler, head of the infectious disease branch of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona. It's time to stop this charade of propping Governor Cuomo up as some type of national hero in this pandemic. New York did a terrible job of handling their outbreak and their terrible job largely led to the national outbreak. If you want a national hero, I'd look toward the west coast where those states and major cities did MUCH better jobs containing their own outbreaks.

420k Coloradans have filed initial unemployment claims over the past 7 weeks. That's almost 15% of our total workforce that has lost their jobs in under two months.

I thought it was a fair question. I mean, we are basically trying to strike a balance between managing loss of life and managing economic devastation. I'm not sure there is a clear cut right or wrong answer.

There's no black and white answers there. We constantly have infectious diseases circulating in our population that WILL result in deaths.