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- Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:29 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Oximeter should be an essential tool in every household, along with these: - thermometer (preferably, ONE per household member, so that in case each get sick, you don't re-use; plus an extra), - blood pressure monitor, - oximeter, - glucose monitor, - a fairly robust medicine cabinet, - UVC sanitizer box, - a selection of disinfecting products (70% ethyl spray, clorox wipes, lysol spray, clorox spray, combination of different chemicals. chlorine works best, but benzalkonium chloride needed too as chlorine too hard and can discolor), - masks, - gloves. I have not found a reliable thermometer. My doctor says she has not found a reliable one for home use and goes by the symptoms family members present. I have two Vicks one, different models, ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:23 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: will covid 19 destroy senior campuses
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5467
Re: will covid 19 destroy senior campuses
Sigh. Take a look at the horrible deaths coronavirus victims suffer, not to mention the survivors with brain damage, lung damage, etc.cheese_breath wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:44 pmMore people die of the flu that of Covid (so far). The reason we're so scared of it is because we don't have a vaccine or cure yet. Once those are developed I doubt we'll give it any more concern than we give the flu.
Why do I even reply to these flu people, it's just a knee jerk reaction. I will try not to in the future.
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2447
Re: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
I grow cucumbers in tomato cages. They really don't take much room.TheGreyingDuke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:09 am Lots of good suggestions here...
1) Grow what you like
2) Avoid varieties that take a lot of space for the output, you don't have much space. This would include corn, cukes, winter squash.
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: I Got Scammed To Send Amazon Gift Cards
- Replies: 139
- Views: 14976
Re: I Got Scammed To Send Amazon Gift Cards
You can chat with amazon. When the chat bot starts just type agent. You may have to wait for a human for some time.
Why would your neighbor ask you to send money?
Why would your neighbor ask you to send money?
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:42 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2447
Re: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
Cucumbers are easy. I plant Divas. You have to check them like a hawk, however. I can be sure I've picked all of the ripe ones one day and the next day I find a giant overripe yellow one.
Mint is very invasive. Plus seedlings pop up everywhere for years.
Mint is very invasive. Plus seedlings pop up everywhere for years.
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Someone upstream was saying the healthcare system hadn't collapsed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/coronavirus-live-news.html "The coronavirus may be killing people who are not even infected, by depriving them of desperately needed treatment, said Dr. Bruce Lowell, an internist in Great Neck, N.Y. “People are still having heart attacks, people are still having strokes,” he said. “I feel as if there is no awareness of anything other than Covid.” The virus has sickened hundreds of thousands of Americans, killed tens of thousands of them and forced millions into unemployment. But the pandemic has also shaken every aspect of health care, including cancer, organ transplants and even brain surgery. Beds, blood, doctors, nurses and ven...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
You know, sometimes people make up their minds that some falsehood is true regardless of tons of evidence to the contrary. Is it a good use of anyone's time to argue with such a person? Or could we be doing something more productive?
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:12 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Too soon to get another credit card?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1317
Re: Too soon to get another credit card?
I have two credit cards in case one becomes temporarily disabled if something fraudulent happened and a new card had to be issued.
I like my capital one card 1 1/2% cash back no annual fee very nice website nice customer service.
I do not like AmEx. I had a card years ago and it was a hassle. I applied for a new card recently and got rejected because they "suspected fraud." They would not tell me what caused them to think that. My credit reports are fine and frozen, my credit score is over 800, So I have no clue. Too bad as there was a nice bonus for initial use, but probably a lucky escape considering my history with AmEx.
I like my capital one card 1 1/2% cash back no annual fee very nice website nice customer service.
I do not like AmEx. I had a card years ago and it was a hassle. I applied for a new card recently and got rejected because they "suspected fraud." They would not tell me what caused them to think that. My credit reports are fine and frozen, my credit score is over 800, So I have no clue. Too bad as there was a nice bonus for initial use, but probably a lucky escape considering my history with AmEx.
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 11:45 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
- Replies: 684
- Views: 66788
Re: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
Diet Coke Caffeine Free? I like live on that, but I have not had trouble finding it.HomeStretch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:55 pm Grocery store today again didn’t have any paper towels, napkins, toilet paper (I bought last Scott’s 4-pack), cleaning supplies with bleach, Diet Coke caffeine free, yeast, hand sanitizer. Same story for 5 weeks at several local stores.
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:44 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Gardening 2020
- Replies: 227
- Views: 22207
Re: Gardening 2020
A local garden store near me is allowed to do curbside pickup. They say it is working well.Mr. Rumples wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:08 am
I suppose I will start tomatoes this year from seed; in the past I have bought 6 Roma's from the local nursery.
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:10 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Hope you’re right. Per capita deaths so far in Sweden are higher than in US (though way less then NY). By the numbers it would seem Sweden isn’t doing that well compared to most other places. But it sounds like on the ground things are not too bad. Maybe hospital and ICU capacity is better or the demographics In Sweden are more favorable (Age, obesity, other comorbiditites). Just don’t know. Maybe warmer weather is having an effect. Maybe Sweden is more isolated from other areas in Europe with higher burden of disease. I certainly don’t know the answer. My guess is that if Europe was analogous to the US, Sweden would be analogous to someplace like Illinois and Spain or Italy would be analogous to New York. Again we will see. If you guys ma...
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to get Liquid Hand Soap? seriously.
- Replies: 76
- Views: 5587
Re: How to get Liquid Hand Soap? seriously.
Am I the only person who keeps a bar of soap in a dish at the sink? Plus I thought anti-bacterial soaps were a bad thing, and a bar of soap involves no plastic.
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
"Officials in both Wuhan and New York had to revise their death counts upward this week when they realized that many people had died at home of Covid-19, strokes, heart attacks or other causes, or because ambulances never came for them."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/heal ... uture.html
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:47 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Hope you’re right. Per capita deaths so far in Sweden are higher than in US (though way less then NY). By the numbers it would seem Sweden isn’t doing that well compared to most other places. But it sounds like on the ground things are not too bad. Maybe hospital and ICU capacity is better or the demographics In Sweden are more favorable (Age, obesity, other comorbiditites). Just don’t know. Maybe warmer weather is having an effect. Maybe Sweden is more isolated from other areas in Europe with higher burden of disease. I certainly don’t know the answer. My guess is that if Europe was analogous to the US, Sweden would be analogous to someplace like Illinois and Spain or Italy would be analogous to New York. Again we will see. If you guys ma...
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:43 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
We have performed over 3 million tests. More than any other country by far. We have plenty of testing capacity. Edit: Looks like 3.5 million now. And 200k per day, which is still increasing as the Abbott test becomes more widespread. People kept complaining that US wasn't testing enough, and now that it is testing more than any other country, still not good enough. The goalposts need to stop moving. Per capita we stink. According to Harvard, only my state, RI, has enough testing capacity to consider reopening and not yet. The article flipped past my nose this morning, but what the link was no idea. If I find it I will update this post. Update: link and fixed Yale/Harvard attribution error. https://www.wpri.com/health/coronavirus/ri-is-only...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Gardening 2020
- Replies: 227
- Views: 22207
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:49 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Impact of charitable donations to economy during crisis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 808
Re: Impact of charitable donations to economy during crisis
I've said this before on charity threads, but almost all my donations go to small local charities like animal shelters. I know the work these people do first hand, and most of them have no paid staff, let alone ones raking in giant salaries. They are really hurting, because their fundraising events can't be held.
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Should I give blood now?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1973
Re: Should I give blood now?
I donated two Fridays ago at Hoxworth, the University of Cincinnati-affiliated regional blood bank. Procedures will vary in different places, but they took precautions that made it very low risk. 1. Appointments were required. 2. All donors were screened and temperature-checked in the entryway before entering. Only one donor was allowed in the entryway at a time. 3. All staff wore gloves and masks. 4. They had touchless hand sanitizer dispensers. 5. Staff walked around cleaning any surface touched by any donors, including the post-donation refreshment tables. 6. Donation beds were spaced safely. Since all of my spring races were canceled, I was able to spare a few red blood cells without suffering too greatly. :beer As others have said, th...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
- Replies: 684
- Views: 66788
Re: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
Me too. I have to say, I don't need that, leave it for someone else.telemark wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:48 pmIt's surprisingly easy to get into that mindset. Now that things are showing up again, I find myself wanting to buy stuff I already have, simply because it was hard to find last week. I have to remind myself "no, I bought that yesterday, I have plenty now." A form of recency bias, I suppose.
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Pool of Water six feet from foundation of front of home
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3310
Re: Pool of Water six feet from foundation of front of home
How about a photo?
If a downspout ends in the wrong place, you can have someone add an extension or replace it with one that redirects it including further out. Be sure to hire an actual gutter person, not some handyman.
If a downspout ends in the wrong place, you can have someone add an extension or replace it with one that redirects it including further out. Be sure to hire an actual gutter person, not some handyman.
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:59 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
What I have seen in the models I've looked at is no claim that the total number of people infected will be changed by stay at home etc. orders (unless a vaccine comes roaring down the tracks in that time interval), but rather the purpose is to spread things out to prevent the hospitals from being deluged with sick people beyond the hospitals' capacity to handle them.
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
The tests CVS/Rhode Island are doing at drive ups claim results in fifteen minutes.Cash is King wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:20 pm
That's reasonable for testing in a hospital or clinic setting. I think the Abbott test gives results in less than 4 hours. I would expect in the next 2 weeks will see more of these tests available in hospitals and clinics.
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:02 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
You know, if people just followed a strict 14 day quarantine, no one allowed to go out at all, this would all be over so fast. Instead, people half-***ing the stay at home, and people threatening to go out if the stay at home is extended, means all this is just going to continuing trickling on and on for months. When I drive out I cannot believe how many cars and people I see out shopping etc. Seems like this will be a long journey until we get a vaccine. Just another data point, I have to be out about once every two weeks for some reason here in Rhode Island. I also can't believe the traffic. The nytimes is running photos of empty streets in various cities and here on the highway things look normal. We do seem to be making some progress w...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:07 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
This kowtowing to the single minded goals of the epidemiologists who finally get to play their table top games for real and their to h*** with everyone else attitude about all the collateral damage while they destroy people's lively hoods and cause damage which will reverberate through through the economy and society for years if not decades has got to end. It’s about time those single minded goals of Fire Marshalls and LEOs are put in perspective. I’m an American, with freedom of speech, and if I want to tell FIRE in a crowded theater, it’s my right. It won’t kill anyone; the stampede is what kills, and I’m not stampeding. Anyway, the good news is you can yell what you like; the theater is empty. No, it isn't' your right. You will be thro...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: IRS Get My Payment up and running
- Replies: 369
- Views: 32423
Re: IRS Get My Payment up and running
The online tool is up but it isn't working. I couldn't even get past the first screen where you enter SSN, DOB, and address before it says the information I entered does not match their records. I am entering the information exactly as shown in my tax return. Then I must have tried too many times because the online tool locked me out. Had two other members of my family try the online tool and were given the same error saying info doesn't match the records also. The IRS screwing up again. I always file firstname middlename last name. Because everywhere in the universe I use firstname middlename as my first name. It didn't like that. It didn't like firstname middleinitial lastname. It did let me in with firstname lastname. So try a few thing...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
You can adjust when you get them filled. My insurer allows some degree of early fills. So you can move things around to bunch them.Sheepdog wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:39 am
Thank you so much. We do get 90 day supplies of all medications, except my wife's pain killer. You've got me thinking, though, about the timing of our prescriptions as it seems like one of us seems to have at least one to be filled almost weekly....not really weekly, but still a lot. (I have 4 scripts and she has 10 plus OTC ones (too many IMO, but that is another story). I may have one this week to pick up and my wife one the next week and on and on. ) I don't know how I could fix that so it does cause pickups.
Take care of yourself.
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:47 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 1653
- Views: 106934
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Old people are assumed to be incompetent to some degree or other. Hence the marking. I write this as an old person who encounters this frequently.New Providence wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:44 amI don't understand what adultery has to do with anything here.Lynette wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:40 amThank you. I apologize for posting if this offends those who are not as fortunate as I am. I guess I need to be gracious to people who know my age but do not know me well. I need to graciously decline offers to buy groceries for me, etc. etc.
Best wishes to all.
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 2:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Should we be concerned with any banks closing?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5434
Re: Should we be concerned with any banks closing?
I would not depend on some bank's webpage, I would check the FDIC list, which I assume exists.alex_686 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 1:28 pmFrom https://www.us.hsbc.com/ - literally on the front page
"Deposit products are offered in the U.S. by HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Member FDIC."
I am operating under the assumption that your assets are held by "HSBC Bank USA, N.A". If your assets are in a different jurisdiction, well - what jurisdiction are they heldin?
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:37 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
I would not want a job where I interacted with a lot of people nowadays, but there is hiring going on, the job market is not all a disaster: nytimes: "Retailers and food distributors are also trying to expand the pool of available cashiers, produce pickers and warehouse workers in an effort to spell exhausted employees and create backup in case of widespread illnesses. Unions representing food store workers, such as the U.F.C.W., are actively recruiting workers laid off this week from department stores and clothing retailers that have shut down for the foreseeable future. Walmart, the nation’s largest food retailer, said late Thursday that it was looking to hire 150,000 new employees in its stores and distribution centers through the e...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:35 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
Is it possible to tell if someone had and has recovered from the coronavirus? That would be very useful to know, besides pertinent possibly in the plan being floated to use blood transfusions from those people to give others immunity.ebrasmus21 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:46 pm In December I was sick as hell. I was sick for weeks, missed several days of work and seemed to take forever to fully recover. I know many others in my area that had a rough cold/flu season this winter. I wonder if the virus was already here back in December and we just didn’t know it.
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:29 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How much cash to have during coronavirus panic?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 13805
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:41 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Census 2020 question
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8113
Re: Census 2020 question
What are these? I get them too. Is some idiot spammer in China not restricting calls to other countries?LookinAround wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:41 am
I get automated calls
- Speaking Chinese (I'm not Chinese)
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:25 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
The only person I trust about this is Dr. Fauci. He is not a spring chicken; please stay alive, Dr. Fauci.M.Lee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:53 amI feel the same about the CDC.Unladen_Swallow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:15 am The WHO has retracted and been false so many times in this mess, I feel bad that I ignored my instinct to doubt them more.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How much cash to have during coronavirus panic?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 13805
Re: How much cash to have during coronavirus panic?
I was thinking why bother with this, but then I got 3 emails in the past couple of days, from a credit union, a bank, and schwab saying they were closing their lobbies. This made me nervous.
I can't use the ATM where I have my checking account as I need some card for that, which involves going into the credit union (this one isn't closed) to fill out an application, and I noticed in the past that the manager comes to work when she has a cold.
Normally I have max $200 at home in cash. I took out $500 via the driveby window.
I can't use the ATM where I have my checking account as I need some card for that, which involves going into the credit union (this one isn't closed) to fill out an application, and I noticed in the past that the manager comes to work when she has a cold.
Normally I have max $200 at home in cash. I took out $500 via the driveby window.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:07 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Happens To Your Battery When Your Car Is Parked For Weeks?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5977
Re: What Happens To Your Battery When Your Car Is Parked For Weeks?
Yes, it takes forever. Memory for this is a great invention, since mechanics reset everything to their own preference.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:04 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
- Replies: 684
- Views: 66788
Re: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
Descending into complete indelicacy, I remember years ago the older women in my family talking about having in their early days used cloths for menstruation.quantAndHold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:37 pmI wonder what people did before baby wipes were invented 60 years ago?
Oh, wait. I think they used wet cloths, then did laundry.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
- Replies: 684
- Views: 66788
Re: How to get Toilet Paper ? seriously.
The one day I used Kleenex instead of toilet paper it did clog the toilet.bayview wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:32 pmInteresting! I did not know that about Kleenex.RetiredArtist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:18 pmOur Public Utility Department advises that Kleenex, paper towels, flushable wipes will clog your drains. You could use them & throw in trash, like diapers.
The wipe package includes a claim that it won’t, but it’s smart to follow utility advice.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:58 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Happens To Your Battery When Your Car Is Parked For Weeks?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5977
Re: What Happens To Your Battery When Your Car Is Parked For Weeks?
Bad things happen to my 2003 Lexus if the battery goes or is disconnected. I've forgotten the details, but I lose memory settings for mapping, seat adjustments, etc.jabberwockOG wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:15 pm Most modern cars have some amount of parasitic draw if they just sit. Disconnect the battery or attach a battery tender to keep the charge up. Disconnected a fully charged battery should hold most of its charge for a couple of months.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:54 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
"He said the lengthy turnaround time for test results leaves patients in the dark and burdens the hospital’s limited resources. Patients who might ultimately test negative for coronavirus, and be healthy enough to leave the hospital, are instead being kept in isolation."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyre ... virus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyre ... virus.html
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:41 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say-mass-tests-in-italian-town-have-halted-covid-19 <<The researchers explained they had tested the inhabitants twice and that the study led to the discovery of the decisive role in the spread of the coronavirus epidemic of asymptomatic people. When the study began, on 6 March, there were at least 90 infected in Vò. For days now, there have been no new cases.>> <<“Here there were the first two cases. We tested everyone, even if the ‘experts’ told us this was a mistake: 3,000 tests. We found 66 positives, who we isolated for 14 days, and after that 6 of them were still positive. And that is how we ended it.’’>> Folks, This is what happened when you tested everyone. KlangFool Wowsers. ...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
One of the mods seems to have merged the optimism thread into the general thread.FoolMeOnce wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:45 pmThis is not a point for optimism. Why are you posting it in this thread?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:48 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-y ... 2020-03-18
A couple of people tested positive for the virus, so the stock exchange is moving to electronic trading.
This business of runs on the stores adds to the anxiety. It's one more worry that actually doesn't have to exist, especially for the older and disabled.
In Walgreens today the pharmacist and a helper were wearing the sophisticated masks, the two other employees were not.
A couple of people tested positive for the virus, so the stock exchange is moving to electronic trading.
This business of runs on the stores adds to the anxiety. It's one more worry that actually doesn't have to exist, especially for the older and disabled.
In Walgreens today the pharmacist and a helper were wearing the sophisticated masks, the two other employees were not.
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:11 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: [Archived] Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
- Replies: 4963
- Views: 298157
Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
There's out and then there's out. I see people walking in the rural road in my area, but they are not near anyone else and are getting exercise and I think less likely to go stir crazy.guyinlaw wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:41 amFlorida is the next hot spot. Vulnerable folks should not go out.
It's so sad that so many people were out yesterday and over the last week.
- primary elections
- St Patrick's day
- Disney world open till Monday.
- people out in beaches and restaurants.
Call the governor and ask him to close everything. Ohio is the example for rest of states.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Coronavirus (Consumer Issues) How you are preparing?
- Replies: 1800
- Views: 178787
Re: Do you sanitize your groceries? COVID-19
Anybody know how long they survive on refrigerated stuff?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:46 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Philippians first to close financial markets, do you agree and who's next?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1576
Re: Philippians first to close financial markets, do you agree and who's next?
I still remember having to rattle off Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians...
I think closing the financial markets would be a catastrophe. But we have seen colossal ineptness before.
I posted this on another thread: A credit union and a bank in my area sent out emails that their lobbies are closed and one of them also closed some branches completely, but both said online, ATM, and driveby banking in the open branches is available. Way to start a bank run. My initial thought was to go take out $500 as I normally keep $200 cash around and replenish it. Then I thought, no, $1000. I think I'll stick with $500, or not go at all as I am isolating. This is unnerving, though.
I think closing the financial markets would be a catastrophe. But we have seen colossal ineptness before.
I posted this on another thread: A credit union and a bank in my area sent out emails that their lobbies are closed and one of them also closed some branches completely, but both said online, ATM, and driveby banking in the open branches is available. Way to start a bank run. My initial thought was to go take out $500 as I normally keep $200 cash around and replenish it. Then I thought, no, $1000. I think I'll stick with $500, or not go at all as I am isolating. This is unnerving, though.
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:03 am
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Re: Bogleheads community discussion - Coronavirus
A credit union and a bank in my area sent out emails that their lobbies are closed and one of them also closed some branches completely, but both said online, ATM, and driveby banking in the open branches is available. Way to start a bank run. My initial thought was to go take out $500 as I normally keep $200 cash around and replenish it. Then I thought, no, $1000. I think I'll stick with $500, or not go at all as I am isolating. This is unnerving, though.
The vet's office is restricting things like checkups, and dividing its staff to specific days.
The vet's office is restricting things like checkups, and dividing its staff to specific days.
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:12 pm
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But, the Federal government, like any huge organization, tends to be sluggish. Which is why it is better for state and local governments to handle most things. That is true of small businesses too. Fortunately, our forefathers created a government with a reasonably powerful executive. The President responded with tremendous speed on some of the things he can control, like shutting down air travel. Hahahaha thanks I needed that :sharebeer. I guess the keyword there is "some". From the months long testing failure, to the constant misleading and factually incorrect statements, the fed admin response has been a nearly complete disaster IMO. You are not being objective and putting more faith in the government than is ever warranted. B...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:36 pm
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If we really think we need to shut down the economy completely for 18 months, I think instead maybe we have to think about just letting people get infected, and use a trillion dollars to build out medical infrastructure as a new Manhatten Project. Assuming the above projections are correct... No school, millions out of work, for 18 months? Trillions lost from the economy, and billions spent as we try to keep those people from starving to death or in the street. I would think 2-3 months of this instead, and spend those 2-3 months on building hospitals and ventilators and ICU beds, and crash courses teaching the unemployed any tasks that can help relieve the strain on doctors and nurses. Offer great pay for those crash course people, double ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:15 pm
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