Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.

[wooley12]

Or the Sheriff say's you don't have to follow the guidelines. The Constitution and all.

[Conundrum]

Wouldn't say I bit. Posted an observation that I'm seeing more west coast plates in town-WA, OR, and CA. We had a big influx pre-Covid so maybe these are people who relocated and couldn't get new plates with the DMV closing. Maybe they're over here staying in their AirBNB houses because no one else is. Either way, trailheads that I ride my bike to have a high percentage of out of state plates.

[Buster Highmen]

My son is a diligent academic. Very quiet, studious, values his intellectual pursuits. Has never gotten anything but A's and eschewed the National Honor Society because he didn't want to waste time on "self aggrandizing drivel".

The school system doesn't do the Valedictorian/Salutatorian class ranking, though they do keep an honors list that he has been part of while battling with school administration about how many AP classes he can take in math, chemistry and physics.

So academics is a big deal.

But now with the Covid-19 shutdown and distancing, there's no graduation and despite an entrenched reticence, he admits to being a little bummed about not having a graduation/convocation ceremony.

And so are we. I think his grandparents are proud and would like to see as well, despite their decreasing mobility.

But the kid has perspective and we talk about how lucky we are not to be worried about being sick or losing our security, home or food.

Condolences and commiseration to all those for whom this is a tough time.

So fuck all the ceremony and pomp, I'm proud of my son, no matter the hospital mixup.

[uglymoney]

I wonder where he got his smarts from Buster? You should be proud. I so wish my stepson had more intellectual curiosity. He has a little, but on a level that doesn't involve twisting his mind too hard, and ask him to explain the reason something is how it is and he just mumbles. Mad talent as an artist though...but those skills are also under developed. He also is a senior this year and he is devastated that his soccer season was canceled. He is a hell of an athlete with intense focus on that part of life and has been under recognized on his HS team so this was his year to kick ass. He did break up with his horror show control freak of a girlfriend yesterday after realizing he hoped quarantine never ended so he never had to see her again. Lolz. Thank God. Off to community college to keep his soccer dreams alive. I really feel for all these kids. Such an amazing time of life stolen from them.

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[Core Shot]

Where did you get that from? This was published yesterday:

Governor: Oregon could reopen under 3-phase plan, but distancing likely for months to come

weird. May 2 press conference, reported on oregon live.
state of emergency until july 6

seems like there are now some things that are being considered to open before then.

Kind of an odd way to announce that you are opening some businesses.
She may need a new communications director.

Good to hear there are some things opening. 100 deaths isn't enough to shut down an entire state. Sorry about the departed.

[Iowagriz]

Similar problem here Buster. Daughter academically pushes herself and is graduating from Purdue in EE and a business minor. To make things worse, we moved to Montana last year, so now she is sheltering in place with her fiance's family in Iowa. At first, she just wanted to get school over and stated she wasn't concerned about graduation. But now those closer to campus are posting pics in cap/gown from various campus spots. Then she got her diploma and a graduation gift box in the mail from Purdue.

Not the way she wanted it to end and has been in tears. She and the boyfriend are driving to campus today to empty the apartment and get some campus pics. Will get to see some of the sorority sisters and friends, but it won't be the same.

[Core Shot]

I found the Oregon link

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavir...to-july-6.html

[Buster Highmen]

I wonder where he got his smarts from Buster?

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They skipped a generation.

Similar problem here Buster. Daughter academically pushes herself and is graduating from Purdue in EE and a business minor. To make things worse, we moved to Montana last year, so now she is sheltering in place with her fiance's family in Iowa. At first, she just wanted to get school over and stated she wasn't concerned about graduation. But now those closer to campus are posting pics in cap/gown from various campus spots. Then she got her diploma and a graduation gift box in the mail from Purdue.

Not the way she wanted it to end and has been in tears. She and the boyfriend are driving to campus today to empty the apartment and get some campus pics. Will get to see some of the sorority sisters and friends, but it won't be the same.

Yeah, it sucks and in their short lives it's a huDge deal, but the thing I might be most proud of is that he knows this is just a minor turd comparing to what others are going through with sickness, financial worries and hunger.

He was always weirdly mature.

Again, who knows where that came from.

[riser4]

no matter the hospital mixup.

If I hadn't diligently written my name on the label, we would have had a lab mix-up with our middle kid. They put it in the wrong tray at the front desk. Once they read the label they asked and got the right stuff in the right place. Close call.

[XXX-er]

They skipped a generation.

He was always weirdly mature.

Again, who knows where that came from.

I got a kid like that, he never ever did anything wrong, instead of acting out I remember him saying he suposes this is the point at which he would be acting out if that was his intention

way smarter mo inteligent than his parents

[zion zig zag]

but the thing I might be most proud of is that he knows this is just a minor turd comparing to what others are going through with sickness, financial worries and hunger.

He was always weirdly mature.

Again, who knows where that came from.

That's pretty good perspective for a teenager, and laudable.

Local news had a teen and her mom on the other night complaining about the lack of ceremonies and how they "deserved" it. Pretty shallow look for them considering the pain this is bringing others.

[Core Shot]

Interesting post from bionicmosquito.

I tend to agree, but I’m an anarchist libertarian
YMMV
=======================


What We Know

· We know that the original model from Neil Ferguson of Imperial College was wildly wrong.
· We know that the number of deaths in Sweden were an infinitesimal fraction of what the model would have predicted given Sweden’s relative do-nothing policy
· We know that models from Neil Ferguson in the past were also always wildly wrong.
· We know that massive funding from the Gates Foundation goes to Imperial College.
· We know that original estimates of the number of deaths that would be attributable to the corona were greatly overstated.
· We know that even the reported number of deaths (the numerator) attributed to the corona are overstated – my guess from what I have read, by a factor of two or three. This is because people who die with the corona (and even for this, they can’t or don’t really test) is not the same thing as people who die due to the corona. Yet all are counted as victims of the corona.
· We know that the number infected (the denominator) is wildly understated – some estimates, by as much as 50 to 80 times, maybe more.
· We therefore know that much more of the population has already been exposed, with no meaningful or debilitating symptoms.
· We know that there were many in the medical community that were making such points as the above before all of the hysteria. This isn’t a matter of 20/20 hindsight.
· We know that a large portion of global medical funding comes from the Gates Foundation, which stands to profit substantially from disease-induced panic.


· We also know that the initial reaction of many medical experts was that this corona would present something a little more or a little less than another cold and flu season.
· We know that something caused them to change their minds.
· We know that the “reaction” to this corona has offered a pretext to bail out the financial system – with efforts that dwarf what was done in 2008.
· We know that now that these floodgates have been opened, only collapse will bring the current system to its just end.
· We know this will harm the innocent, not the guilty.


· We know that there is some meaningful portion of the population that isn’t buying any of this: witness the beaches and other public spaces being occupied for leisure.
· We don’t know how large or small this portion is.


Conclusion

None really. Maybe show your disdain in any way that works for you.

Maybe, come November, assuming that there is an election, vote for any candidate from any party other than the republicans or democrats. I mean any party. And don’t vote for any republican or democrat. None.

It won’t really matter, but it might be fun.

[LegoSkier]

Ok, with these anti gates foundation conspiracy freaks. I just don’t get how the gates foundation is going to “profit” on anything. People...it’s a NOT FOR PROFIT fucking foundation! By definition there is no fucking profit! It’s sole source of funding is bill’s Microsoft stock. So what, they created a pandemic so we would all use more Azure cloud services so the stock would go up?

[Viva]

Windows 10 still sucks.

[old goat]

My son is a diligent academic. Very quiet, studious, values his intellectual pursuits. Has never gotten anything but A's and eschewed the National Honor Society because he didn't want to waste time on "self aggrandizing drivel".

The school system doesn't do the Valedictorian/Salutatorian class ranking, though they do keep an honors list that he has been part of while battling with school administration about how many AP classes he can take in math, chemistry and physics.

So academics is a big deal.

But now with the Covid-19 shutdown and distancing, there's no graduation and despite an entrenched reticence, he admits to being a little bummed about not having a graduation/convocation ceremony.

And so are we. I think his grandparents are proud and would like to see as well, despite their decreasing mobility.

But the kid has perspective and we talk about how lucky we are not to be worried about being sick or losing our security, home or food.

Condolences and commiseration to all those for whom this is a tough time.

So fuck all the ceremony and pomp, I'm proud of my son, no matter the hospital mixup.

Well, you should be able to go to the ceremony where he gets his PhD in math just before he starts work for Goldman Sachs as a quant. And moves into a 15000 sf apt in Manhattan and forgets he ever knew you.

Congrats on your kid. I know a lot of smart people who only care about their kids' sports. Smart people should be valued more in this country, not just when we have a pandemic.

[old goat]

Ok, with these anti gates foundation conspiracy freaks. I just don’t get how the gates foundation is going to “profit” on anything. People...it’s a NOT FOR PROFIT fucking foundation! By definition there is no fucking profit! It’s sole source of funding is bill’s Microsoft stock. So what, they created a pandemic so we would all use more Azure cloud services so the stock would go up?

Charitable foundations are supposed to be nonprofit and spend the money doing good works, said NY State to Donald Trump.

[Rideski]

Ok don’t shoot the messenger, but the officers of non profits frequently make a fuck ton of cash, even if they aren’t embezzling. Gates I don’t know, haven’t looked into it.

[riser4]

Windows NT was alright. Not awesome, not awful. Of course knowing one of our own wrote some of the code makes it better.

[gravitylover]

My daughters are finishing up their junior year of college and everything that they're missing is emotionally driven and it's starting to bug me. "I miss this and that" but they have no concept of how difficult things are for us with nobody in the house working and ineligible for unemployment. They complain a lot about missing their friends and their campus life and how things are going to be so different next year, it looks like they're both going to graduate in December a semester early and won't have a ceremony. Waaahh... We have to buy another car so they can go and finish college, pay another insurance etc. and we have squat coming in but their emotions are what matters? Fuck that. Welcome to your place in history kids, it sucks but it's yours to figure out how to live with it and how to make it better. Now in the current moment figure out how to help us keep living in the house we're in and eating a couple of meals a day instead of whining about what you don't have.

[Core Shot]

Yeah zh is the crappy source, but the photos of rental cars stacked in stadium parking lots is interesting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/so...lots-around-us
====.
Incidentally, earlier today we reported that Hertz and Avis had put stops on purchases and, in some cases, re-directed purchases they've already made to additional parking lots. These companies have cancelled "all orders of GM vehicles for May, June and into July".

This has left GM and Hyundai taking back cars that it had agreed to sell to Hertz, Avis and Enterprise. Last month, Fiat underwent efforts to try and redirect almost 30,000 vehicles these companies had purchased, but was unable to transfer them.

The chaos has continued this month when Avis had to sell $500 million in junk bonds and Hertz was granted a last-minute concession from its lenders to narrowly avoid bankruptcy. Meanwhile, rental car sales fell 77% in April.

Most recently, Bloomberg reported this morning that rental icon Hertz hired advisors to consider a bankruptcy and the auto industry has placed a major bet on incentives to try and move inventory off of their lots.

Based on what we're seeing in parking lots around the nation, it isn't working.

[Name Redacted]

My daughters are finishing up their junior year of college and everything that they're missing is emotionally driven and it's starting to bug me. "I miss this and that" but they have no concept of how difficult things are for us with nobody in the house working and ineligible for unemployment. They complain a lot about missing their friends and their campus life and how things are going to be so different next year, it looks like they're both going to graduate in December a semester early and won't have a ceremony. Waaahh... We have to buy another car so they can go and finish college, pay another insurance etc. and we have squat coming in but their emotions are what matters? Fuck that. Welcome to your place in history kids, it sucks but it's yours to figure out how to live with it and how to make it better. Now in the current moment figure out how to help us keep living in the house we're in and eating a couple of meals a day instead of whining about what you don't have.

They sound like they need jobs. "Would you like fries with that?" "Would you like room for cream?"

[gravitylover]

And there are so many available jobs in the NY burbs right now...

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Not clicking on anything Zerohedge.

[Core Shot]

Not clicking on anything Zerohedge.

Sig worthy

[Benny Profane]

Ok don’t shoot the messenger, but the officers of non profits frequently make a fuck ton of cash, even if they aren’t embezzling. Gates I don’t know, haven’t looked into it.

Chelsea Clinton nods.