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Agreed. I tend to read both for sake of comparison. Fox and CNN and both dripping with partisan bias. Did you know that Fox has more viewers than CNN...I was not aware of that until recently.

I think the 400 is a better overall package than the 650. I looked at both of them and the 900. Still bought the 400. I'll let you ride it sometime...

In the Cleveland area (probably Ohio and beyond) there was a widespread upper respiratory infection in November/December. Everyone had it. I had it. It lasted about 4 weeks. I'll bet lots of people are wondering if it was Corona. It wasn't.

There's more to that story. It's been discussed pretty openly in some of the briefings.

From what I read... South Korea rushed their COVID 19 test development. They took a chance and released a test that skipped some of the normal testing steps. They took a risk and it paid off, thankfully. If it had not worked, South Korea might be in a situation like Italy. But it did work. Our CDC on the other hand took a less risky approach, which took more time, and did not result in a better test than South Korea's. The CDC's protocols exists for a reason, but in the case a a fast spreading, mutating virus...speed is critical. I'm certain the CDC will be reevaluating their methods. Why not do both? Why not have a fast track plan A, with a less risky plan B running concurrently?

Clean the asses or the washcloths in the sink?

If it doesn't, you should take a look and the Ninja 400. It's a pretty significant jump over the 300. It's a capable sport bike and does surprisingly well as a sport tourer... ask @Pauly or @Blitz and it's super fun to ride.

https://www.sciencealert.com/who-recommends-to-avoid-taking-ibuprofen-for-covid-19-symptoms

I think I'm good

I have read that at a National level there is no shortage of food. But local shortages can occur due to people stock piling. It will level off. Food is still being manufactured. Lots of companies that were making food for restaurants will have capacity to service retail...if necessary. I've been to 3 stores in the last 2 weeks as recently as Monday. Plenty of food was on the selves. The only things that were out of stock were things like hand sanitizer and Lysol wipes.

The current buzzword against remote employees is "collaboration." It's nonsense. In a closed door meeting, the CEO of my last company (ADP 50,000 employees) literally said to his inner circle exec douchebags that they were moving away from remote EEs because they wanted to move away from the older, higher paid (many remote) employees and hire more young, low-wage millennials...but millennials don't have the same work ethic and cant be trusted to work from home. Shortly after a "Voluntary" early retirement package to everyone over a certain age. Most took it, many of those that didn't were laid off within the next 6 months.

After all this passes. I wonder if working from home will become more common. Some companies have had much success with remote employees, others are reluctant to give employees a remote option. The trend has been up and down. I've worked from home for the past 15 years and would prefer to never work in an office again.

I'll bet bars would be willing to sell some of their on hand stock at retail prices, or even distributors. I seem to always have an absurd amount of bourbon on hand

One for @Tonik

Unless there is a favorable location to "ride" this out for the next 2 or 3 months, I'd look at flights before you can't

How do you reconcile those estimates against data coming out of countries like China and South Korea where spread already appears to be leveling off? It's easy to question the reliability of data from China, but South Korea is likely more trustworthy.

I decided to pivot my for sale add.

I agree with a lot of that Nivin. As a physician there are perspectives you should support to be the best physician you can be. My ex wife is a physician. I was/am friends with many from her med school class. My opinion on coronavirus makes me a level headed-non panicking-big picture thinking American, but not appropriate for someone who is responsible for treating people that need help.

I think the government actions like travel bans and limiting gathering sizes are justified. The point is containment...incremental, half measures would be pointless. The over-prepared-ness and panic is absolutely causing significant economic collateral damage. I am not worried about corporate America, it s very likely that the stock market will bounce back. OTOH, many small businesses (restaurants, bars, shops, barbers, etc ) and people living paycheck to paycheck will not bounce back. Businesses will be shuttered and houses will be foreclosed over this panic. That will ripple through our economy for years and have a greater effect than the virus itself. Panic and herd mentality over 6 thousanths of a percent will have a lasting impact on large swaths of the population.

...and if your assumption is true that there really are more cases than known or reported that would mean the percentage of fatalities is even lower. Because fatalities can be more easily counted, correct? IE...if there were twice the cases; the fatality rate is cut in half.

I agree that there could be more cases than reported. I disagree with your conclusion about mortality rates. Even if you doubled the cases in China that still 12-thousanths of a single percent in 3 months. I'll be very surprised of cases spread in the US at the same rate as what was 'reported' in China.

Just a bit of perspective.... China's population is approx 1.4 Billion. In 3 months, there have about 81,000 cases which equates to 0.006% of the Chinese Population (1% of China's population would be 14,000,000) US population is about 327 Million. About 1,300 cases in the US which equates to 0.0004% of the US Population (1% of the US population would be 3.2 million). That's cases not deaths. Reason to be concerned...absolutely. Reason to lose your fucking minds and cause an economic meltdown...absolutely fucking not. Feel free to check my math. Probably the most accurate data source available: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html?fbclid=IwAR2B5QOYzmsIVK8KjrziR6idZgbXNFqT1xkUb2NtUD9a1gcWYpk4FJ_BmuY