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#3,951
K-town Vol Fan said:
Status symbol. Trying to make it seem they have more money than they do.

Not sure if anyone posted, there is a quick little 30 minute documentary on Netflix on covid-19. Definitely worth a watch.
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Yep. Few people come over to your house. But all your buddies, coworkers, random strangers, and that girl you want to pick up at the bar get to see you saddle up into your $50k lifted truck with built-in ball massager and think you're a baller (at least, that's the idea).
 
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#3,952
K-town Vol Fan said:
Status symbol. Trying to make it seem they have more money than they do.

Not sure if anyone posted, there is a quick little 30 minute documentary on Netflix on covid-19. Definitely worth a watch.
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You are probably right. Sad. During these bad times, I remember my mom preaching to my brothers and I that we always needed to "save for the rainy day". She never explained what the rainly day was but it is raining now on a lot of people. Can you mention what the key points of the documentary were?
 
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#3,953
TennTradition said:
I work for someone who is living in Calgary right now and her son's soccer coach died about 3 weeks ago of CV (confirmed after death). He hadn't tested positive - but had the symptoms and was told just to stay home. He was doing OK - coughing a lot with fever, but breathing was just somewhat difficult. He died overnight in his sleep. He was in his mid-30s. Reading this made me wonder if maybe he had a massive stroke - perhaps his bloodwork would have told a worse story than the symptoms he was experiencing did, but he was never in a doctor's office or hospital.
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That is truly terrible.
 
#3,954
#3,954
Aesius said:
Yep. Few people come over to your house. But all your buddies, coworkers, random strangers, and that girl you want to pick up at the bar get to see you saddle up into your $50k lifted truck with built-in ball massager and think you're a baller (at least, that's the idea).
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Huh! I don't even know what a baller is. Ball massager, lol. I'll look it up. I blame it on old age and CRS.

But, the economic term for what you describe is "conspicuous consumption ".
I was in college in the early 70s, and the classic example at that time was the "welfare Cadillac". That was someone who lived on welfare, and lived in a shack, but drove a very nice car (Cadillac) because they would be seen around town in that.
Things change.
 
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TennTradition said:
I work for someone who is living in Calgary right now and her son's soccer coach died about 3 weeks ago of CV (confirmed after death). He hadn't tested positive - but had the symptoms and was told just to stay home. He was doing OK - coughing a lot with fever, but breathing was just somewhat difficult. He died overnight in his sleep. He was in his mid-30s. Reading this made me wonder if maybe he had a massive stroke - perhaps his bloodwork would have told a worse story than the symptoms he was experiencing did, but he was never in a doctor's office or hospital.
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Odds are that it was something respiratory, be it pulmonary emboli, or something else secondary to that like a massive MI. Strokes are killers, but not typically within such a small window of time, and we’re talking about embolic strokes, MIs, PEs, etc. things that occur due to occlusions as opposed to hemorrhages.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
You are probably right. Sad. During these bad times, I remember my mom preaching to my brothers and I that we always needed to "save for the rainy day". She never explained what the rainly day was but it is raining now on a lot of people. Can you mention what the key points of the documentary were?
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***RoadVol*** said:
So much for social distancing in Georgia now. Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware & Walmart packed worse than black Friday shopping with no waiting outside the stores. Get ready for the next shutdown which will be longer and more drastic.
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Where are you seeing this..I'm in north west georgia (just south of Chattanooga) and seen just the opposite...lines to enter if store full..and everyone observing distancing...
 
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Go aeiou said:
Huh! I don't even know what a baller is. Ball massager, lol. I'll look it up. I blame it on old age and CRS.

But, the economic term for what you describe is "conspicuous consumption ".
I was in college in the early 70s, and the classic example at that time was the "welfare Cadillac". That was someone who lived on welfare, and lived in a shack, but drove a very nice car (Cadillac) because they would be seen around town in that.
Things change.
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Reminds me of Boys of Summer song
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
There was actually a novelty song called Welfare Cadillac. In Ken Burn's Country Music there is a segment where Nixon invited Johnny Cash to the White House and wanted him to play it, but he played something else instead.
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I need to watch that one...I've never been disappointed or failed to learn new info from a Burns doc.
 
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SlipKidVol said:
Where are you seeing this..I'm in north west georgia (just south of Chattanooga) and seen just the opposite...lines to enter if store full..and everyone observing distancing...
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Buddies of mine in Savannah sent me pictures of their families at the beach this weekend. One lives on Dutch and one on Skidaway. I am guessing they were at a sandbar and not a public beach. Anyhow, wherever they were there were a shizton of other people out there. They guy who sent me the pics said they don't need to distance because of how hot it is. Maybe the further South you go, this is the prevailing wisdom?
 
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#3,964
Tennessee COVID update
The majority of cases (56%) continue to be in Davidson and Shelby, the Bledsoe prison, and out of state cases. East Tennessee still looking good for reopening under 100 active cases for the 12 central valley counties.
154,402 completed tests (94% negative)
9,918 total cases (56% are in Davidson, Bledsoe, and Shelby counties)
4,720 recovered 48%
5,014 active
184 deaths 1.9%
East Tennessee active cases (92)
Knox County 27
Roane County 0
Loudon County 6
Anderson County 3
Blount County 9
Campbell County 1
Sevier County 18
Jefferson County 5
Grainger County 2
Cocke County 1
Hamblen County 9
Greene County 11
That's a total of only 92 active cases for the 12 Central valley counties.
 
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#3,966
#3,966
So far most of my restaurant clients are holding Off reopening dining rooms till at least mid May.
 
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#3,967
kiloVOLt said:
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At this point, the decision to enter phase 1 has been made so they're going to use whichever number appears lowest. I think that a massive second wave is inevitable. Too many new cases being diagnosed means there's many infected who are undiagnosed, possibly not symptomatic and are now spreaders. Sounds like some of the testing isn't reliable as well, so there are probably some symptomatic spreaders out there telling their co-workers and customers that they tested negative.
 
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#3,968
VolunteerHillbilly said:
At this point, the decision to enter phase 1 has been made so they're going to use whichever number appears lowest. I think that a massive second wave is inevitable. Too many new cases being diagnosed means there's many infected who are undiagnosed, possibly not symptomatic and are now spreaders. Sounds like some of the testing isn't reliable as well, so there are probably some symptomatic spreaders out there telling their co-workers and customers that they tested negative.
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This guy is pretty good to follow for info. He releases this graph every day after state numbers are released. I think he is on to something with tracking hospitalizations though. I have wondered myself on how accurate some of these tests are but “it is what it is” right now.
 
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I can confirm now that there is an outside refrigerated trailer serving as a morgue, and it’s got a bunch of bodies in it, 15+, and that’s conservative estimate. The 19 year old from the other day has been made a DNR also, not doing well.
 
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#3,971
Regulator said:
I can confirm now that there is an outside refrigerated trailer serving as a morgue, and it’s got a bunch of bodies in it, 15+, and that’s conservative estimate. The 19 year old from the other day has been made a DNR also, not doing well.
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#3,974
Weezy said:
Strict social distancing and daycare...

You are not opening up the economy without school and child care. There's a huge central part of the workforce that relies on it.
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I could have sworn I read that both Virginia and NC had announced that school in the fall would be online only.. also not a coincidence that Pearson has started pushing their competitive public online option vs K-12...We tried K-12 and our 1st grade autistic son was literally sitting in front of the computer in virtual classrooms for hours on end....just wasn't a viable option for us
 
#3,975
#3,975
kiloVOLt said:
This guy is pretty good to follow for info. He releases this graph every day after state numbers are released. I think he is on to something with tracking hospitalizations though. I have wondered myself on how accurate some of these tests are but “it is what it is” right now.
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I like the idea of focusing more on the number of hospitalizations as well. It is a far more important number than just the number of cases.
 
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