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jakez4ut said:
on another light note....at some point over the last couple weeks i finally acheived a greater than 1:1 like to post ratio....cheagle rides and bbq in the future maybe?

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zhangliao04 said:
Does anybody who does stock trading on their own have any advice for someone thinking about getting into it? I have never done it before and do not know the lingo.
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Though I would also caution against trying it anytime soon, until volatility comes down. Traders seem to inherently enjoy volatility, because they think of opportunity...but research has shown times of high volatility produce the worst results for them. A lot of traders get slaughtered in times like these.
 
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drvenner said:
Do you DVR, brah?
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I do, but I think you missed my follow up post to the on you quoted.

VolInDayton said:
I flipped it on and fell asleep after the first drive so all I saw was a quick UK Touchdown. All the games are 2019 games for football. Would have loved to see a game with Fulmer coaching or with Dobbs as QB. I say all this like I can't look it up on YouTube myself haha.

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I know. I won't watch any of the games today on SECN anyway as I always watch replays on YouTube. I just wanted to fuss at the SECN for its crappy scheduling. I suspect fb games would be what most viewers want to see, so why schedule half of them middle of the night?

I usually save games to Cloud, but rarely end up watching the replay I recorded since Frank always loads the games commercial-free to Youtube within a day or two.
 
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GiggerVol said:
I think it is somewhat interesting to look at where the major hot spots and cases in volume are. Our large urban cities. And, yes, that makes some sense due to the dense population in those areas. But you would have thought the governors of those states and mayors of those cities would have been planning, gearing up and stockpiling supplies sooner once they knew this had potential to become a pandemic. In a lot of these areas the governors and mayors are liberal democrats who think the federal govt is the answer to everything(except when it comes to following immigration law since many of these areas are "sanctuary cities" and then they want nothing to do with the federal govt except when they expect billions of dollars to be handed to them.)

For instance, when Trump imposed the travel ban on China back in Jan., he was called a racist and a stupid fool by many in the media and the mayor and governor of NY. Cuomo can sound very intelligent at times in his daily updates but if you do some research on him, you wonder how in the heck he is still the governor serving his 3rd term with all the hundreds of billions of dollars he has wasted the past few years.

Not trying to be making a huge political statement here but there is a reason there has been a mass exodus out of NY the past few years.
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Zoom way in to the Johns Hopkins corona map until you can see road networks. The dots are aggregated county data, so it doesn’t match up exactly, but you can see a correlation between major roads and lines of larger dots. Arrived by plane at major airports, took connecting flights and now taking in the view on a long road trip. The association would likely be more striking if you could view data by zip code instead of at the county level.
Can’t speak for other states, but I’ve been impressed with local county and state response here in CA. Pretty competent, and have made mostly the right moves when they needed to be made. My hospital has been trying to add to PPE now for almost two months, with varying degrees of success, as some suppliers in China aren’t responding, and may still be offline. I doubt that many state governments counted on a complete Chinese manufacturing shutdown for 2 months in their disaster planning. A slowdown, maybe, but shutdown for that long was likely considered a true edge case that would be too expensive to plan for, as lots of needed items have expiration dates, and using/rotating a giant stockpile rather than just discarding everything when expired would present a big logistical challenge. I would bet that large changes in the depth of state, local and hospital preparedness are coming in the aftermath, along with more opportunities for domestic manufacturing. Live and learn.
Scarier to me is rural hospital preparedness, which is minimal on a good day, as many hospitals were struggling to survive before this, and likely have minimal ability to confront this safely for very long at all without significant outside help.
 
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sutro said:
, as some suppliers in China aren’t responding, and may still be offline. I doubt that many state governments counted on a complete Chinese manufacturing shutdown for 2 months in their disaster planning. A slowdown, maybe, but shutdown for that long was likely considered a true edge case that would be too expensive to plan for, as lots of needed items have expiration dates, and using/rotating a giant stockpile rather than just discarding everything when expired would present a big logistical challenge. I would bet that large changes in the depth of state, local and hospital preparedness are coming in the aftermath, along with more opportunities for domestic manufacturing. Live and learn.
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agree with all of this.

playing the blame game right now on this suppply thing is a moot point imo.

anyone that would have started banging the drum of stockpiling to prepare for a potential out of control global pandemic would have been laughed out of town, fired from whatever company they worked for, or removed from office at the mere suggestion of spending taxpayer dollars for the sole purpose of having inventory just in case...or suggesting the government subsidize that inventory to help defray costs for coporations taking this action in the interest of national security.....

and your last point is the biggest point to consider. the real question here is why on earth can't "medical supply company X" produce the products need in the first place??
 
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chargervol said:
Stress gonna get that boy long before anything gets a chance. All of Nick's hard work going to be vain.
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BaldBiker said:
I'm still waiting on @Bassmaster_Vol to come on and tell us he's dead. He promised...sorta...and it's been a while. I don't give heartfelt goodbyes frivolously. I mean seriously, I used Mickey Mouse!
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Last I heard he was dealing with anorexia! Nick prolly
 
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Geaux_Vols said:
And as I’ve stated, production isn’t the problem, it’s coordinated distribution, as explained in this
a letter signed by more than 100 current and former national security professionals, including former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, outlines as much:

“Some private companies have been willing and able to scale up production — and admirably so,” the letter says. “But as governors and local leaders around the country are making clear, private efforts without more extensive government support are proving far from sufficient to meet the current and anticipated needs. Beyond questions of supply, the private sector lacks the ability to process incoming requests, prioritize the most urgent needs, and coordinate with other companies absent more concerted government involvement. That is precisely what the DPA is designed to do.”
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Ha please. The more government gets involved the less efficient it will become.
 
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