Kolek planning to go pro
I appreciate the response. I can throw out opinions all I want, but for me personally, it is little more than an inconvenience. I had to cancel trips to the Smokies (would have left home this Sunday) and Moab, Utah (early May). That has basically been the sum total effect on my life. I bought a new vehicle in early March and I could have gotten it for at least 5 grand less now, but that's life. So I try not to complain about the stay-at-home orders.Of course I am not referencing the immense suffering this has caused to thousands of people and families. That is where the real heartbreak is and those families have my prayers.Yeah, it has cost me a lot of money, but not enough to affect my life one way or the other. I realize it is different for millions and my opinions generally are referring to them rather than myself. As I said, I don't think I have the right to whine when this is hitting millions of others way harder.
One way to look at the vehicle....by the end of this, you will have put way less miles on it than you would have if we had not had a pandemic, which means it will have depreciated less.
Hah - I like the positive attitude. I just closed on a new house Mar 13 (Fri 13...I know)...I know you're in a similar boat - but on the upside, I've been able to utilize having this house WAY more than I would have pre-covid
My buddy is a consultant, has done very well. But his business is largely restructuring and bankruptcy work. Seems like a great time for his field? The opposite. He was in El Paso/Juarez turning around a struggling factory. Made some tough cuts but got some footing. Then this hit, they will likely have to shutter it. And the outlook for their work is bleak. Can't travel to clients. Turn around plays are being discarded to just potentially shut down and strip. His firm is looking at potentially going on hiatus for MONTHS if something doesn't change.
This should be used against a$$hole antivaxers in general not just covid
Maybe I've been misreading it all this time ... but isn't the main purpose of a mask to catch one's own "droplets," and thereby not affect others? Theoretically, there are millions and millions and millions of carriers who don't know they are carriers. For this purpose, even home-made "masks" theoretically are better than none, right? Because I can't believe anybody with any medical or science knowledge believes that a bandana or a coffee filter or a t-shirt is going to protect the wearer of that jury-rigged "mask."
Can confirm, consulting in my industry is at a standstill. Other than annuity projects that go on regardless, new business is frozen tight. There are only so many ways to tell your clients how to run their business when their business isn't running.
I just wish federal officials would get serious about prompt and widespread testing and contact tracing. Instead, they leave testing to a hodgepodge of state and private entities, and hope states similarly develop a contact tracing mechanism. All should really be done at the federal level, since reopening things presumably would mean interstate travel; a potentially huge issue if contact tracing isn’t a federal initiative.
Got a path yet, bois??? #LastDays
Best way out is for POTUS to tell CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to, you know, control and prevent further spread of COVID. If he doesn’t, and continues to prevent CDC from doing what it was created to do, it’s gonna be a hodgepodge of testing and contact tracing. To summarize:CDC allowed to do its job: quicker recovery.CDC handcuffed: slower and fragmented recovery.
So the president is handcuffing the CDC’ making things worse. Ok, what specifically do we need him to do / change?
Order the CDC to take over and greatly expand the testing process, and develop a mechanism for contact tracing.They have done both in other countries where leaders exhibited leadership, so I’d like to think we can do it here.
Your mom still gone see it, boi