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I have to admit I would wait and see. Let others go first, and then see what happens. But unfortunately, my wife would likely be required to get it.

If memory serves, the original purpose of the lockdown was keep the Hospitals from getting overwhelmed as happened in Italy. There were a number of news articles about it in March. Also, they wanted to give manufacturing a chance to catch up with the critical need for medical equipment. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241337291.html

I lived in Hawaii for three years, and if I could afford it, I would retire there. I hate snow and cold.

I don't think they should send money to the upper wage earners who haven't lost their jobs. Although sorting it all out would be difficult. I got money during the last stimulus, but I didn't really need it. Both my wife and I are still working, and in truth, we aren't spending much money. So I wasn't sure why I got it. But I spent it by having an out of work friend install a new floor in our kitchen, so I suppose that is the point of sending us the money, ie to keep the economy moving.

American Airlines is at 9.5 or so a share. Thinking about buying a few shares. My only concern would be if they eventually have to declare bankruptcy, but that doesn't look likely right now.

Me talking to my son when things begin to re-open.

There are over 300 million Americans, and you really believe that not a single one is humble?

Damn Californians. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/asian-americans-describe-gut-punch-of-racist-attacks-during-coronavirus-pandemic

That game was on the NFL network yesterday. I watched a few minutes of it.

FYI, its human nature around the world.

Well, yes and no. Preparedness for things that happened in the past is relatively easy to get dollars for. Before 9-11, if they asked congress for money to prepare for a terrorist attack with hijacked airliners, the laughter would have been loud. Afterwards, it was easy to get money to help prevent another similar attack. Same with Pearl Harbor. Human nature I guess to prepare for the threats you know instead of the ones that are mostly theoretical. We are usually ill prepared the first time something happens, but better the second time. Assuming the second time is within living memory.

Since we are at war with the Virus. I love the smell of Clorox in the morning. Smells like victory.

No doubt we could have handled it a lot better. I certainly didn't mean to excuse the things our government did or did not do. But South Korea certainly had a much easier situation to deal with.

South Korea is smaller than South Carolina. And they are one of the most easily isolated countries in the world. They have one land border no one crosses. Basically, if you shut down one airport, and a couple of shipping ports, the country is isolated from the rest of the world. The US has more ports of entry in California than South Korea has in the whole country. The level of difficulty of implemting restrictions and responding to a pandemic in a country the size of the US is dramatically higher than in South Korea.

Hoping its just a flaw in the test, and not true virus behavior.

Well, this is disconcerting. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive

A lab designed virus, ala Tom Clancy's rainbow six novel, would be far more lethal.

IMO, the president and governors should come out and say bluntly that in two weeks, they will reassess the situation. Make no promises one way or the other, but tell people that they will decide to extend based on the situation then. Of course, people would read into that what they wanted to hear instead of what was actually said, but stupidity can't be helped.

Assuming that means what I think it means, so sorry to hear it.

I worked for Wachovia. Maybe its different for various departments, but we were never on a 2% limit.

From what I read, both of the big Charlotte banks are giving bonuses to employees who make below a certain amount of money. Even though they aren't laying anyone off. That is a pretty decent thing to do.

Depends on what type of equipment you are talking about. Hanes expects to be able to produce 500,000 surgical masks a week in a couple of weeks. But ventilators like GM and Ford are going to try and make, well that will be more difficult. I saw that Musk got 1200 ventilators from china, haven't seen anything about him setting up shop to build them, but maybe he did.

I can't imagine how hard it will be to switch from making autoparts to medical equipment. I think this will be far more difficult than we realize, but hopefully the process goes quickly.

Just found out that my wife may have been exposed to it. Just found out some idiot that my wife works with came to work today despite already knowing that her husband was on his way to be tested for it. Hard to imagine that someone would be that stupid.

Actually, the original program started under Reagan. All that was done under Bush was to add wireless phones to the program. https://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/01/19/the-lifeline-program-through-the-years-from-origins-to-the-present/