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Originally posted by Patriot:

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Originally posted by PASig:
What happens if no one is able or willing to venture out in public to vote?

Bigger question: What if there is no one there at the polling stations because they don't want to be exposed to 100's of mouth breathing voters?


The real issue will be people not showing up for work in jobs that have high exposure to others. Would you?

My brother lives in WA, his department already has a couple people out because they are in fear of getting sick as they work in a building with several thousand people.

There is going to be some people with legitimate concerns, but way more that are going to be milkin the system/situation.

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I really feel bad for anyone in the cruise, restaurant, hotel or travel industry right now because I think it's about to get really rough for a lot of people in that line of work.

I usually eat fast food for lunch every day. Decided yesterday I want to limit my contact with people and surfaces.

I had a turkey and munester Sammy for lunch today. Besides the less contact with germy things tasted better, healthier, and cheaper. Maybe Covid 19 will get me to lose a few pounds.

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One big unknown is the General Election in November. What happens if no one is able or willing to venture out in public to vote?

This week's primary was 100% mail-inable for my county. No neighborhood polling locations at all, just a few vote centers. I just dropped my signed ballot in a mailbox.

Yes, we’ve been permanent absentee for several years. Used to have it done a week or so ahead, but the last few times it’s been day of. Don’t trust the mail, but on Election Day they have folks curbside at the County Clerk-Recorder’s office. Drive up, stop at curb, roll down window, hand in ballot sealed in envelope, get “I voted” sticker and be on my way. Often less than a minute, and get to fill out ballot in comfort at home. Definitely the way to go.

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I really feel bad for anyone in the cruise, restaurant, hotel or travel industry right now because I think it's about to get really rough for a lot of people in that line of work.

Companies are restricting and even banning non-essential travel now and it's got to have a huge ripple effect on those industries. My FIL was due to go to this huge medical IT conference called HIMSS20 in Orlando next week and so many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are pulling out it's very likely to be cancelled. His company just informed him he's not allowed to go now.

One big unknown is the General Election in November. What happens if no one is able or willing to venture out in public to vote?

If it's over within a few weeks or a month, the impact would probably be minimal. Hotels, event venues, et cetera do have cancellation policies where they keep some or all of the money if a large block (like for a conference) is cancelled within a certain period of time.

I know of at least one major company preparing to eat an eight figure sum if they have to call off an international executive's conference.

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Originally posted by Rob Decker:

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Originally posted by PASig:
I really feel bad for anyone in the cruise, restaurant, hotel or travel industry right now because I think it's about to get really rough for a lot of people in that line of work.

Companies are restricting and even banning non-essential travel now and it's got to have a huge ripple effect on those industries. My FIL was due to go to this huge medical IT conference called HIMSS20 in Orlando next week and so many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are pulling out it's very likely to be cancelled. His company just informed him he's not allowed to go now.

One big unknown is the General Election in November. What happens if no one is able or willing to venture out in public to vote?

If it's over within a few weeks or a month, the impact would probably be minimal. Hotels, event venues, et cetera do have cancellation policies where they keep some or all of the money if a large block (like for a conference) is cancelled within a certain period of time.

I know of at least one major company preparing to eat an eight figure sum if they have to call off an international executive's conference.

10,000,000+ non refundable money For a conference? Damn.

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10,000,000+ non refundable money For a conference? Damn.

It's the shrimp cocktail...and cashews on every table...

A solution to the mask shortage problem:


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/BiC56E9t0r8

As with every crisis, the internet delivers....










On a more serious note - for anyone wanting to see the stats on cases, deaths, spread, etc. Here is a good dashboard that seems to get updated every 30-60 minutes or so...

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/op...40299423467b48e9ecf6

Interactive, can drill down on info, etc. Looks like this:

A large marine industry conference in London was rescheduled this morning from middle of March to beginning of December. Considering there were to be Chinese companies exhibiting and attendees from all over the globe, I can understand why they did it. Nevertheless, I anticipate more conferences to be disrupted this year, as well as business in general.

I guess I get to join the panic

The local Fire Dept just sent a Facebook message that Tennessee had it's first confirmed case, and (paraphrasing) I should wash my hands...

Location, Davidson County (Nashville)

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Originally posted by PASig:
I really feel bad for anyone in the cruise, restaurant, hotel or travel industry right now because I think it's about to get really rough for a lot of people in that line of work.

Companies are restricting and even banning non-essential travel now and it's got to have a huge ripple effect on those industries. My FIL was due to go to this huge medical IT conference called HIMSS20 in Orlando next week and so many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are pulling out it's very likely to be cancelled. His company just informed him he's not allowed to go now.

One big unknown is the General Election in November. What happens if no one is able or willing to venture out in public to vote?

I work in the conference industry for a production company and we’ve had several very large shows cancel already, and others are reformatting to a smaller production and just webcasting the show instead of having attendees. It’s already having an effect on us.

I was scheduled to attend a very large international medical conference next week. Just got the word that it has been cancelled. Roughly 50,000 healthcare executives and doctors typically attend. The lost revenue for those numbers of hotel rooms and uber rides and nice dinners is not insignificant.

They pushed back the release of the new James Bond movie from the middle of March to before thanksgiving because of covfefe

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I guess I get to join the panic

The local Fire Dept just sent a Facebook message that Tennessee had it's first confirmed case, and (paraphrasing) I should wash my hands...

Location, Davidson County (Nashville)

Good site for tracking what's going on in Tennessee from UTCHS, and a good comprehensive resource list:

https://www.uthsc.edu/medicine/coronavirus/index.php

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They pushed back the release of the new James Bond movie from the middle of March to before thanksgiving because of covfefe

I guess now is No Time To Die...

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They pushed back the release of the new James Bond movie from the middle of March to before thanksgiving because of covfefe

I guess now is No Time To Die...

Well played. Got to get a chance to laugh in between running around flailing our arms and screaming.

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I was scheduled to attend a very large international medical conference next week. Just got the word that it has been cancelled. Roughly 50,000 healthcare executives and doctors typically attend. The lost revenue for those numbers of hotel rooms and uber rides and nice dinners is not insignificant.

I was also scheduled to go to it. From my perspective, the way that unfolded, non-healthcare specific companies bailed first (like Cisco Systems). IMO these companies were there as table-stakes, but there's no way they really reap back (quantifiably) the cost of attending. They just go because their competitors go.

As that continued and the dominoes started falling, it started to look a little shaky. Then a lot of hospitals started pulling back. Then Trump announced he was coming on Monday to open the show, and people started melting the hell down. Watching one of the HIT blogs, I was shocked to see well educated people spouting typical TDS nonsense. It was all over at that point. All last week the cancelations continued to roll in. Finally, the conference folks rolled up the carpet and called it a day.

Orlando will be a ghost town next week if anyone is interested. Bet you can get a room for a song.

Another great mind heard from:

Chelsea Clinton tweeted the Trump has left the US dangerously under prepared to face a public health crisis like the corona virus outbreak.

Someone tweeted back to her: “More people have died testifying against your Mom”.