Show us your signed Physicians Directive and a DNR… Sacrifice for your children.

I thought part of the idea was to keep people home so they would not feel obligated to go to work even if not feeling great.
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Source behind paywall.

An article at WSJ mentions something Dr. Tabor alluded to in another thread today: Testing to determine how many people have coronavirus antibodies. Those test results are necessary to determine the actual infection rate which, in turn, is necessary to know the actual mortality rate:

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No link. I am good friends with the part owner of Uncle Al’s Hotdogs in Greenbrier, Chesapeake. It’s a small venue almost always packed for lunch due to quality fare and terrific staff.

They are doing curbside takeout now and working to pay bills as best they can.

Here is the wonderful part. The partners have decided to cover the full payroll out of their own pockets for however long it takes to reopen. At the same time, long standing customers are using the curbside pickup. That’s not all. The customers, in obvious appreciation of the long serving staff, are tipping big.

I mean $10, $20 and even up to $100 for an order that probably caps off at less than $10 for a dog, fries and Coke.

I understand there are other places doing as much as they can. Lots of restaurants, high end and less so, that are doing curbside pickup. And customers are tipping more than usual because they know that servers and others in the restaurant business are losing income. Of course it can be a huge strain on startup restaurants in which the owner sank savings and credit into the opening.

BTW lots of places like Walmart, Kroger, Aldis, Target, Amazon are hiring big time. We are talking 10’s to 100’s of thousands of jobs. Walmart will even get you started same day as the interview if feasible. The food, drug and supply pipelines are working OT to stay open and clean. And they have temporarily raised wages to both existing and new employees.

Finally, I have made it a point, now that I am finally mobile and can shop myself, to heartily thank all the frontline workers at HT, Fresh Market, Rite Aid, Costco, etc., for their efforts and long hours. Kind words go a long way.

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-kentucky-became-a-surprising-leader-in-flattening-the-curve-on-covid-19/?ftag=CAD1acfa04&bhid=21042722566861312989327174538320&mid=12760716

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/before-trump-called-for-reevaluating-lockdowns-they-shuttered-six-of-his-top-earning-clubs-and-resorts/2020/03/23/88780374-6d38-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html

It is very probable that Trump’s management of the pandemic crisis is based more on his concern for his business interests than for the welfare of the American people. Such a conflict of interest would explain his nutty rush to overrule science on the ending of social distancing measures.

Based on past performance the Trump Organization is very likely built on a shaky foundation of expensive debt and will not survive the hole in its revenue stream that social distancing is creating. Thank God Trump has no power to end the state-by-state measures now in place. He would do so in a heartbeat to protect his business interests no matter how many people would die a painful death. IMHO.

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I had posted this under Mr. Roberts’ thread from WSJ and the opinions by a couple of investment managers.

This is copied from the Harvard Business Review.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-25/trump-coronavirus-stimulus

“Someday, once the pandemic has waned and the economy has recovered, the GOP’s fiscal conservatives will find a federal deficit ballooned far beyond their fears, and will begin campaigning to shrink it — or blame Democrats for it.“
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Eyes on Florida, the percentage of Floridians with fevers is rising…..

Kinsa’s fever map could show just how crucial it is to stay home to stop COVID-19 spread

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/were-going-be-fine-nobel-winning-biophysicist-predicts-quicker-covid-19-recovery

To the extent that media-induced panic over Covid-19 exists, this article is a minor counterpoint. Time will tell, of course, but why not be aware of this information?

If, for some reason, you don’t like the ZeroHedge version of the story, you can read the original at the LA Times by following the internal link.