Coronavirus - Doomsday

[Old School 360]

6 minutes ago, MDC said:

Unemployment is likely to hit 30% in this short term at least. It’s a mess.

I expect I'll move to the unemployed at some point in the near future. 

When June/ July arrives I'll have to decide if I want to go back or just retire, Of course my retirement account is in the sh!tter, but WHF. 

[MDC 7,535]

3 minutes ago, Old School said:

I expect I'll move to the unemployed at some point in the near future. 

When June/ July arrives I'll have to decide if I want to go back or just retire, Of course my retirement account is in the sh!tter, but WHF. 

Good luck man. The industry I’m in is at a crawl. I’m sure I’ll get furloughed at least. I can get by on savings for a while if necessary, but it sucks.

[Cloaca du jour 2,151]

 

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[MTSkiBum 1,623]

 

With this plant shutdown the US loses 5% of its pork capacity. I do not think we will run out of food, but I think we are going to run out of different types of food. Hopefully they can bring it back online quickly.

 

I would be in favor of Trump using the national guard to help these facilities out. Let the employees recover and have a bunch of 18-20 year old kids work and process the pork.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/meat-industry-warns-shortages-plants-close-coronavirus

 

[Cloaca du jour 2,151]

9 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

 

With this plant shutdown the US loses 5% of its pork capacity. I do not think we will run out of food, but I think we are going to run out of different types of food. Hopefully they can bring it back online quickly.

 

I would be in favor of Trump using the national guard to help these facilities out. Let the employees recover and have a bunch of 18-20 year old kids work and process the pork.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/meat-industry-warns-shortages-plants-close-coronavirus

 

Several beef companies in the west are closing as well...stock up before the price jacks up

[Old School 360]

15 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

 

With this plant shutdown the US loses 5% of its pork capacity. I do not think we will run out of food, but I think we are going to run out of different types of food. Hopefully they can bring it back online quickly.

 

I would be in favor of Trump using the national guard to help these facilities out. Let the employees recover and have a bunch of 18-20 year old kids work and process the pork.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/meat-industry-warns-shortages-plants-close-coronavirus

 

 

4 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Several beef companies in the west are closing as well...stock up before the price jacks up

This is actually pretty scary stuff. There's already enough panic buying and empty store shelves. The food supply chain is already stressed.

[Cloaca du jour 2,151]

4 minutes ago, Old School said:

 

This is actually pretty scary stuff. There's already enough panic buying and empty store shelves. The food supply chain is already stressed.

But produce and milk is being ground into the earth and milk being dumped.  Who knew?  If we just ate lower on the food chain.

[Hawkeye21 2,406]

19 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

But produce and milk is being ground into the earth and milk being dumped.  Who knew?  If we just ate lower on the food chain.

I don't understand what's going on with milk.  It's crazy.

[Old School 360]

1 minute ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I don't understand what's going on with milk.  It's crazy.

Totally don’t get it

[Hardcore troubadour 15,519]

10 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I don't understand what's going on with milk.  It's crazy.

Schools are closed. 

[Cloaca du jour 2,151]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-insight-idUSKBN21L1DW

[Hawkeye21 2,406]

6 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Schools are closed. 

That doesn't explain the prices for milk in grocery stores to be high and there to be a limit on how much can be purchased.  We have a surplus of milk and it should be available to everyone for an affordable price right now.  Dumping it out just doesn't make sense to me.

[Hawkeye21 2,406]

9 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-insight-idUSKBN21L1DW

Our dairy farmers were already struggling before all this.  I don't know how many of them will be able to survive financially anymore.

[Cloaca du jour 2,151]

6 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

That doesn't explain the prices for milk in grocery stores to be high and there to be a limit on how much can be purchased.  We have a surplus of milk and it should be available to everyone for an affordable price right now.  Dumping it out just doesn't make sense to me.

Plus how needy the food banks are...crazyness.

[MTSkiBum 1,623]

19 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Our dairy farmers were already struggling before all this.  I don't know how many of them will be able to survive financially anymore.

They can join the club. 

[supermike80 1,944]

10 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

They can join the club. 

Exactly.  I'm getting kind tired of seeing this on the news.  EVERYONE will be impacted....with few exceptions related to food and healthcare..Everyone else is gonna get clobbered

 

[edjr 6,618]

29 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Our dairy farmers were already struggling before all this.  I don't know how many of them will be able to survive financially anymore.

When this is all said and done, I definitely think it would behoove me to buy at least one restaurant that had to close.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,519]

1 minute ago, supermike80 said:

Exactly.  I'm getting kind tired of seeing this on the news.  EVERYONE will be impacted....with few exceptions related to food and healthcare..Everyone else is gonna get clobbered

 

I think even public sector employees are going to have to take furloughs. 

[edjr 6,618]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I think even public sector employees are going to have to take furloughs. 

Not in Massachusetts. How dare you even say such a thing! How can they possibly take money away from no show jobs and people feeding @ the public trough?

[jerryskids 6,878]

3 hours ago, Cloaca du jour said:

 

This was fascinating, thanks for posting.  I'd have to research some but my guess is that there are folks at MIT who aren't thrilled with this guy.  He is a bit tinfoil hat for me but he makes a few great points:

- Medical doctors do NOT understand systems or a systems approach to problem solving.  They follow the fishbone until it points to a drug.  The medical profession sorely needs engineers or people with that mindset.

- On a related note, medical doctors do not study immunology nor do they understand the complex system of microbes that interact to control the body.

- This quarantine is preventing us from developing a herd immunity.  I absolutely agree with his point that we should be boosting our immune systems instead of suppressing them in quarantine.  Keep the elderly and immuno-compromised isolated, and the rest of us can move on with life and the economy.

[Strike 5,636]

1 hour ago, edjr said:

When this is all said and done, I definitely think it would behoove me to buy at least one restaurant that had to close.

That worked out so well when you bought a bar.

[edjr 6,618]

4 minutes ago, Strike said:

That worked out so well when you bought a bar.

 ouch

47 > 35

[vuduchile 1,945]

3 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Our dairy farmers were already struggling before all this.  I don't know how many of them will be able to survive financially anymore.

Slaughter the dairy cows and sell the beef.  Problem solved.  

I should be secretary of agriculture or something.  

[Old School 360]

15 minutes ago, vuduchile said:

Slaughter the dairy cows and feed the tigers.  Problem solved.  

I should be secretary of wildlife or something.  

 

[tanatastic 2,062]

3 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I don't understand what's going on with milk.  It's crazy.

I suspect milk will soon be the new villain like bread was when people pretended to have gluten intolerance. Thing is, lactose intolerance is 100x more common, you will just hear about it more.

[wiffleball 4,790]

4 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Our dairy farmers were already struggling before all this.  I don't know how many of them will be able to survive financially anymore.

Well it's serves those farting cows right.

[Bert 1,128]

1 hour ago, vuduchile said:

Slaughter the dairy cows and sell the beef.  Problem solved.  

I should be secretary of agriculture or something.  

You made AOC's panties wet.  When she is elected president you are a shoe in for secretary of agriculture. 

[KSB2424 3,148]

If you missed the first 20 minutes of today’s daily briefing you missed one of the biggest biatch slaps I’ve ever seen.  Even Fauci was pissed at a reporter.

This is glorious. 

[Strike 5,636]

2 minutes ago, KSB2424 said:

If you missed the first 20 minutes of today’s daily briefing you missed one of the biggest biatch slaps I’ve ever seen.  Even Fauci was pissed at a reporter.

This is glorious. 

The sad thing is he went easy on them.  They deserve far worse.

[KSB2424 3,148]

9 minutes ago, Strike said:

The sad thing is he went easy on them.  They deserve far worse.

They still don’t get it.  Fauci CLEARLY stated that based on the information and data coming in Trump shut down the economy as soon as the task force recommended it.  

[fandandy 3,313]

Did he actually play a video montage of the media's response to the virus?

[Gladiators 1,998]

26 minutes ago, KSB2424 said:

If you missed the first 20 minutes of today’s daily briefing you missed one of the biggest biatch slaps I’ve ever seen.  Even Fauci was pissed at a reporter.

This is glorious. 

Do you have a link for those whose google is broken?

[Intense Observer 344]

6 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I don't understand what's going on with milk.  It's crazy.

You can't turn off a cow's udders.

So you milk them and dump the milk.

(Demand for milk has plummeted with schools, restaurants, hotels closed. The processors have too much milk, not taking new trucks from dairies)

[Intense Observer 344]

32 minutes ago, Strike said:

The sad thing is he went easy on them.  They deserve far worse.

The sad thing is that CNN cut out when he showed the videos of the MSM downplaying COVID-19.

Then they run headlines saying he is having a tantrum and showing propaganda campaign ads.

[Intense Observer 344]

I honestly don't know how anyone can defend these reporters. 100% of their questions are gotcha attempts and talking point fishing. Not a single one of them is asking questions with the best interest of Americans in mind.

Can any of our communist posters explain?

 

For example, earlier when Dr Fauci said Trump followed his recommendation, the first time he recommended mitigation Trump said let's do it. Reporter question: "are you speaking on your own free will right now"

[TimmySmith 2,782]

The press is freaking out at Trump right now, with him saying he can tell the states what to do.

[Strike 5,636]

Just now, Intense Observer said:

I honestly don't know how anyone can defend these reporters. 100% of their questions are gotcha attempts and talking point fishing. Not a single one of them is asking questions with the best interest of Americans in mind.

Fock, the other day he was being asked questions about "The Tiger King" at a coronavirus press conference!

[fandandy 3,313]

1 minute ago, TimmySmith said:

The press is freaking out at Trump right now, with him saying he can tell the states what to do.

I almost think he's using reverse psychology.

Prez - You can't open your economy up until I tell you to.

Governors - Oh, yeah?  Watch us!

[KSB2424 3,148]

1 hour ago, fandandy said:

Did he actually play a video montage of the media's response to the virus?

Yes, he said “Dim the lights please” then plays a video montage of Pelosi asking people to go to Chinatown in early March, all these media folks degrading him putting in travel restrictions to hot spots, downplaying the virus.  
 

They had a conniption fit.  
 

Just before that Fauci got up there and said “As soon as we (Brix and Taskforce) recommended shutting down the economy, which is unprecedented, he did it.   
 

First question to Trump.  But why did you wait until you did?!?!?

 

Its almost like they can’t hear.