Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.

[old goat]

LE should enforce the law, but Cuomo is right--you can't enforce a stay at home order. People have to understand the reason and voluntarily comply. I hate to go all pollyass but it's unavoidable--if the POTUS were to properly educate and lead and support the need to stay home we wouldn't be having all these people refusing to comply. It wasn't a political issue until he decided to make it one.

Here's another gripe--6 FD emts and firefighters in our house the other night, for a patient with a respiratory illness, and not one wearing a mask or using any other PPE. I was afraid for them, and afraid of them.

[Ottime]

Re-reading my drunken post is quite confusing to me. What we told her was what Ak47 said: everything but death but she figured out death or heard it somehow despite us being careful. That’s what got me, she figured out the death part, we did tell her COVID is the cause of everything and is getting people really sick. I think on one of her zoom calls a friend told her about the death factor, sigh.

Anyways, sorry man it’s a tough time to be a parent with young kids. We are fucking winging it as parents and a hug and a kiss can’t make them feel better like it does for most things.

Mine just turned 9. Had two Zoom birthday parties. This year he wanted a big park party. We did these over the years. Make sandwiches and snacks, bud a piñata together, invite every friend he has ever had, and get a group of 30-50 kids raging together. Then the virus and Zoom. He seems to be handling it well.

He is fully aware of the virus, and its outcomes. He is also learning about how some people don't believe it is a big deal, or just like the flu. Even at his age, he can read statistics better than a lot of adults and sees clearly that health workers are dying fro exposure, and knows it is not the same. He will socially distance himself when outside. He sees the neighborhood kids and plays in the streets. Has bike rides with friends, but is really missing his social life. Distance Learning is really hard. Asking him to look at a computer screen for 6 hours a day is really hard.

Kids are way more resilient than adults. At least the kids I know. Especially when I compare them to their parents. I feel like we are always winging it as parents. Now we are just winging on something that is completely new to us. Those hugs and kisses still will go a long way and kids will weather this better than most adults.

[Ottime]

Smart teacher ^^ OG

I bought 2 VW's on credit only 10% down but I had a business need/expenses/ the ability to do CCA, as soon as i retired I wrote a cheque for what was left owing

Mortgage makes sense but not all the time in every market, i've always been lucky enough to be buying at the right time in the market cycles but I had to wait 5 yrs to buy this place after you folks shit the bed in the great 07 credit swap crisis which stopped the bubble/brought prices down to where I could afford to get back in and buy a house as a ski gentleman without no job

between job losses/ loss of HC/ complete ctl-alt-del of the world I think some people are really gona get hurt on the bubble this pandemic will create and we don't know how/what Covid is going to do next so its not over

I have have two vehicles with car payments. Own my Taco. Both loans were 0 down, 0% finance. Hard to say no to that. We had the cash on hand, but chose to give it to the bank slowly at no cost to us.

[bagtagley]

This has been covered, but the decision to get a loan or not depends on a hundred factors. At 1.79%, my truck loan was a no-brainer. I keep a lot of liquidity and can easily beat that rate in returns. These days having no debt can be as much a sign of risk aversion or lack of imagination as anything.

[TahoeJ]

^^ Exactly. I have a 0% interest loan on my truck. Seemed like a no-brainer, and yeah, pretty sure I can beat 0% with that money in the meantime.

[skifishbum]

LE should enforce the law, but Cuomo is right--you can't enforce a stay at home order. People have to understand the reason and voluntarily comply. I hate to go all pollyass but it's unavoidable--if the POTUS were to properly educate and lead and support the need to stay home we wouldn't be having all these people refusing to comply. It wasn't a political issue until he decided to make it one.

Here's another gripe--6 FD emts and firefighters in our house the other night, for a patient with a respiratory illness, and not one wearing a mask or using any other PPE. I was afraid for them, and afraid of them.

no your wrong you just don't type political things and hit post reply
its like turds you need to poop
you just don't need to poop on the padded room floor
you put them in the shitter
what is so hard about that concept and what used to be the community standard?
surely someone as well edjucated can understand how easy it is not to poop on the floor
ive trained a lot of dogs to do this
evidently they are smarter than you

[XXX-er]

I have have two vehicles with car payments. Own my Taco. Both loans were 0 down, 0% finance. Hard to say no to that. We had the cash on hand, but chose to give it to the bank slowly at no cost to us.

well sure ^^ made finacial sense but you still owe the money,

In this brave new wordl how many people will have 2 car payments/ visa/ mortgage yada fucking yada payment and NO FUCKING JOB ?

So all of their stuff which ain't actualy their stuff isnt worht as much $$$ as it was ... some of it will be " underwater "

and that is when one will wish they paid cash or went without

[Ottime]

But I have the money in my pocket. Sure I owe it, but it has been earning 2% the entire time I held on to it. Not gonna do the math, but I end up with more money.

The whole idea that one should not finance is absurd. Too many other factors to consider. Yes, many over extend, but not everyone. I’ll have no issue paying off the cars even if I make no money through the end of the loan. Cause I already have that money. And a rainy day fund to get us through ten months of mortgage, food and daily expenses.

OTOH, people who over extended themselves to pay off shit they did not need on money they thought they may make in the future are likely fucked. Like the economy. Not enough people, governments or companies plan well enough.

Ironically, CA has been keeping a rainy day fund and it is about to get liquidated over the next three years to help out in the down times. Kind of surprised. Not nearly enough to keep things normal, but enough to take the edge off.

[old goat]

^^ Exactly. I have a 0% interest loan on my truck. Seemed like a no-brainer, and yeah, pretty sure I can beat 0% with that money in the meantime.

When I was in 4th grade there was no such thing as 0% 0 down but that is an offer that's hard to refuse. OTOH--at the moment beating 0% in the market is no sure thing.

[Core Shot]

You and your kids need to harden the fuck up.

Don’t worry Nancy boy.

My kids are fine. They know their overlords are trying to program them into being sheeple.

They will be the ones to hire and fire your kids if you decide to pollute the gene pool with your seed

[skifishbum]

i give him good artifishals insemination odds
but little hope of actually old school fornification
its a personality thing

[Core Shot]

i give him good artifishals insemination odds
but little hope of actually old school fornification
its a personality thing

Bwaaa ha

Two drops, as we used to say.

Boo yah

[Benny Profane]

This has been covered, but the decision to get a loan or not depends on a hundred factors. At 1.79%, my truck loan was a no-brainer. I keep a lot of liquidity and can easily beat that rate in returns. These days having no debt can be as much a sign of risk aversion or lack of imagination as anything.

Yup.

[XXX-er]

These days having no debt can be as much a sign of risk aversion or lack of imagination as anything.

well sure ^^ and I blame it all on my parents, the same people who left us a bunch of money but right now a lack of imagination/risk aversion is looking like a pretty good thing

[TahoeJ]

There’s a healthy balance in the middle of all this for sure. It’s good to be financially conservative but not to the point that you avoid risk to the degree that you miss out on opportunities that clime potentially change your life for the better.

[panchosdad]

I got no debt and feeling pretty good about it. Not getting what I'm missing out on.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Anyhoo, I need some N95 masks soon or the Hanta V is gonna kill me before the Corona V.

[iceman]

Maybe they neutralize each other.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

You should run this past the cheeto in chief.

[MakersTeleMark]

A buddy of mine was temporarily brilliant last week. He told me he had found a way for "the light to shine from the inside".

He produced a 4D maglight and told me to shove it up my ass.

[skiballs]

A buddy of mine was temporarily brilliant last week. He told me he had found a way for "the light to shine from the inside".

He produced a 4D maglight and told me to shove it up my ass.

KY, or dry?

[old goat]

Anyhoo, I need some N95 masks soon or the Hanta V is gonna kill me before the Corona V.

Think I'll start wearing a mask when I go under my house. Lot's of mouse turds down there and there has been at least one case in Truckee.

[AK47bp]

A buddy of mine was temporarily brilliant last week. He told me he had found a way for "the light to shine from the inside".

He produced a 4D maglight and told me to shove it up my ass.

So....


did it work?


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[El Chupacabra]

A buddy of mine was temporarily brilliant last week. He told me he had found a way for "the light to shine from the inside".

He produced a 4D maglight and told me to shove it up my ass.

Learn the song "Hand in Glove" by The Smiths, and sing it to him next time you see him.

[Cono Este]

Complaint

Bitch sister making all the calls. It’s fucking ridiculous.




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