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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Anyone have a firsthand feel for how things are in Vegas right now? My wife and I have an overnight trip in Vegas planned for our anniversary the week of the 23rd. My wife wants to cancel, but I don't. I have a feeling that the decision might be made for us real soon though. Our flight for instance is now nearly empty. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Sounds like a plan to me! Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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I think you just need to make the decision for yourselves. I'm in the same boat but my trip is next month, mid-month. But I'm going to the middle of the Pacific. My concern isn't for health, it's getting stuck there due to a cancellation of flights back home to the mainland. I'd be just fine, I can work there virtual. It's just my kennel costs that would rack up for the k9. It'd be $1200 a month I'd be on the hook for. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Well, that's what I'm worried about as well, getting stuck. It's only one night though. I'll make up my mind in a few days ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Wait, what? |
You'll have to trust in google and mull your way through it; it seems like several "attractions" are closing down, as are some casinos (or at least functions like buffets) but places like the MGM casino still say they're staying open for now. Subject to change, I'm sure. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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relative lives out there as of right now Clark County schools are still open UNLV has suspended classes for the rest of the semester. athletics are cancelled. you'd probably have the resort all to yourselves I came back from Las Vegas last weekend flights were about 20% or so vacant but obviously that was before the SHTF you guys young and healthy ?? lots of things cancelling that's for sure their main newspaper https://www.reviewjournal.com/ -------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
We are lucky the place we stayed is owned by friends so they have been nice enough to extend a long term invitation if for some reason we cannot leave. | |||
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Good news for the "all this crap is unnecessary" folks - Mayor de Blasio of New York City apparently agrees with you and is refusing to close NYC's public schools. https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/...sal-to-close-schools | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
I didn’t read the article, but I’d imagine that crime would skyrocket even more if schools were closed in NYC. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
The line to get into a Costco in Fountain Valley, CA this morning. I have personally never seen anything like this before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...2XE&feature=emb_logo "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Sure enough, one of his arguments is the dangers of hundreds of thousands of teenagers being left unsupervised. What does he think happens over the summer? | |||
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The media/DEM team have attacked President Trump for moving too slow on testing for coronavirus. yesterday The Trump team talked about demolishing existing regulations and policy that was hindering the response. Example here: https://www.powerlineblog.com/...ht-about-the-cdc.php As The New York Times reports in a terrific new article, officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stymied private and academic development of diagnostic tests that might have provided an early warning and a head start on controlling the epidemic that is now spreading across the country. As the Times reports, Seattle infectious disease expert Dr. Helen Chu had, by January, collected a huge number of nasal swabs from local residents who were experiencing symptoms as part of a research project on flu. She proposed, to federal and state officials, testing those samples for coronavirus infections. As the Times reports, the CDC told Chu and her team that they could not test the samples unless their laboratory test was approved by the FDA The FDA refused to approve Chu’s test on the grounds that her lab, according to the Times, “was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months.” In the meantime, the CDC required that public health officials could only use the diagnostic test designed by the agency. That test released on February 5 turned out to be badly flawed. The CDC’s insistence on a top-down centralized testing regime greatly slowed down the process of disease detection as the infection rate was accelerating. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx yesterday indicated the WH team recognizes the problem and is moving to resolve it. Ironically I saw an article from former CDC officials who were complaining that President Trump was "violating" all the CDC rules. Damn right he is. | |||
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Has anyone noticed that the ones doing the most bitching about the government not doing enough about this virus, are the same assholes who think government run healthcare is a good idea? ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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Couple more data points for those of you keeping track: Ohio now has 26 cases, including 4 in my county. Was 13 yesterday. Casinos closed, limits on gathering, most state universities have gone on-line for three weeks at a minimum, some for the rest of the semester to try to stem the tide. In Italy, 35 people under 60 died yesterday. | |||
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...us-outbreak-n2564946 During a press conference on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Trump administration plans to expand travel bans to include the United Kingdom and Ireland. The ban goes into effect Monday night at midnight eastern standard time. "As the president just suggested, all of our health experts presented information. Dr. Fauci will reflect on those numbers. [They] made a unanimous recommendation to the president that we suspend all travel from the U.K. and Ireland that will be effect midnight Monday night eastern standard time," Pence said during the press conference. "Again, Americans in the U.K. or Ireland can come home. Legal residents can come home... they will be funneled through specific airports in the process." | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Wife and I figure Costco (and other stores) are limiting the number of people in the store to prevent the normal "crowding" seem on weekends. Ie, social distancing Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
Wife and I just completed our usual Sat. afternoon grocery run. I can report that the Annandale Safeway was about as busy as usual, the TP aisle was cleaned out, but was being restocked as we watched. People were taking it off the shelves almost as quickly as it was being stocked, but no frenzy. Saw one woman with a dust mask, and nitrile gloves. I thought about sneaking up behind her and giving out with a huge hacking cough, but then thought better of it. Not quite business as usual here inside the beltway, but no crazier than when snow is predicted. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
I just made the rounds reaching out to and chatting with a bunch of people I stay in touch with abroad (a few haven't gotten back to me yet), a mix of natives/locals and expats who live in spots including (neither kidding nor bragging) Berlin, Cologne, Rennes, Grenoble, Catalonia, Manchester, Utrecht, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Taipei. Others, too, but you get the idea. These are music and creative and/or technology professionals I know all over. On the whole, fwiw, I and some of us here seem the least concerned of all. Not by a lot, but the least. But most of them, admittedly, live in much closer proximity to one another than I and many of us do. Anyway. People everywhere are wound up. My peer group here ranges from 30yo to 60yo, fwiw. Middle class and fairly comfortable to better off, mostly. None of these are wealthy, but all living okay coming into this situation. A wide mix of race and politics and orientation and such. More updates later as I speak with the rest of them and stay in touch. That and $5 gets you a coffee..
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is circumspective |
Things are changing rapidly here, right now. There is an update Monday regarding the schools. Many larger churches (including mine) are suspending corporate services, and offering Youtube or streaming. I don't work in the tourist industry so I don't see that firsthand, but I believe were about to see a domino effect for casinos & show venues. Buffets (many, most, all, I'm not sure) are already closed. I'd cancel, or at least keep the option open until later in the week. Things here are changing too quickly to give an accurate prediction. I hope this helps. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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