• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Coronavirus infection from China

They say warm weather kills it. So we will see soon as hot weather is coming.

I put off buying a new Vette for now.
 
Well, it seems to survive in the 98.6 degree human body just fine. And there are countries near the equator that have it, so I'm not so sure about that heat thing.

Yeah, I know what you mean about putting off things. I'm stalling on buying the extended warranty for my Jeep GC TrailHawk.

And I'm working on the exhaust on the vette thinking that if I get sick, I may not feel much like doing something like that. My elbow is still hurting a bit, but screw it. I can't wait forever for some things.
 
Nancy said she watched the Governor address the state and she felt comfortable .She is in an isolated community with not a lot of people contact unless she wants .

Up here in Maine there are no confirmed cases but three possible .I'm sure it'll get here .My only grip is that I have port a potties on my job sites and people steal the toilet paper .:banghead::crazy03:
 
Stores are being cleaned out of stuff. Went food shopping this AM and got what i needed and it was already nuts.
 
Hand sanitizers are nearly impossible to find in many parts of the country now. Same with face masks of just about any type.

Quite a few states have declared a state of emergency. Yesterday Trump declared a national emergency over this virus. People are now waving red flags all over the place, and people are starting to open up their eyes to see what is going on around the world. And now it is coming to their own neighborhood.

The more people who realize what is going on, the more are going to figure out that there is a very great likelihood that they might wind up being locked down, either voluntarily or involuntarily, in their homes when quarantines are put into place. Not to mention that eventually truck drivers will either be sick or afraid of becoming sick, and deliveries to grocery stores might taper off to a trickle. Got the gas tanks in your vehicles topped off? Gasoline supplies can vanish too. Not that you want to be taking pleasure cruises now, but you might have to go out for an emergency and find the gas stations all closed. Too bad for you if you only have under a quarter tank of gasoline.

If you haven't already begun to prepare, you may find that some things you just took for granted you could buy are just no longer available. Imagine fighting with someone in the parking lot over a pack of toilet paper. Imagine people breaking into your home just to steal toilet paper. Think it can't happen? People have become used to getting what they want, whenever they want it. So if you are prepared, I suggest not widely advertising that fact to your neighbors. They might be great people in normal times, but we are rapidly approaching very abnormal times, and they could become very different people then.

Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
 
Personally, I believe that the USA got caught with it's pants down. I can understand the empathy behind Americans caught on a cruise ship and bringing them home, but it appears that the quarantine around them was lacking. Look at where all the eruptions of new infections is the highest in the USA. They should have all been taken to someplace remote at least until the people in charge understood what they were dealing with. And under no circumstances within the continental USA.

China completely isolated a city with 11 million residents and tanked their economy over this. They obviously KNEW something important about this. America just ignored that big red flag, and continued along, business as usual. By the time flights to and from China were blocked, many other countries already had cases, yet they were not being blocked as well. Was even any effort made to track down anyone coming from China within the past 14 days before the lockdown? Wouldn't that have been a logical move?

Even by February 29th, Americans were only "urged" to not go to Italy and South Korea. It wasn't until this week that an actual ban was imposed, LONG after the virus was putting Italy in dire straits. And long after there have been enough people carrying the contagion have already entered the USA and contagion spreading out of control. Did the USA know that asymptomatic victims can spread this disease or not? If not, why not? I knew it, and I certainly don't have the resources that they should for information of this nature.

And then there is the CDC. I couldn't have written a more bumbling idiot script for them any better than they wrote for themselves. Testing could have prevented many infections if people knew they were infected and reacted appropriately. But even long after the virus had spread outside of China, they insisted that tests would only be done to people (1) showing symptoms, and (2) either been to China or in contact from someone who had been in China in the past 14 days. Then they announced that the tests were inconclusive and defective. Then tests required several levels of hoops to jump through for anyone to be tested. And most people had no clue what those hoops were or where. Then I heard that a critical reagent needed for the tests to work was suddenly unavailable. As far as I know, tests are still limited and difficult to be obtained. And who knows what the hoops are now to qualify for testing?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/who-gets-tested-coronavirus/607999/

For the money that we pay for the CDC out of our taxes, exactly what are we getting for our money? Obviously it wasn't spent to be prepared for an event of this nature, so what have they been doing with all that money?

How will America look when this is in our rear-view mirror? Well in my opinion, I hope the CDC should all be in the unemployment lines. Or worse.

And those people tasked with our protection and well being, well, they just need to get their head out of their ass. I'm just a nobody and a know-nothing, but even I could see what was coming LONG before it was impossible to do the right things to, if not stop it, at least contain it with minimal spread. Yeah, it would have been hard decisions to have to make, but sometimes those decisions MUST be made by the people put into positions to make them.

IMHO.
 
CHASZ51 said:
90's are showing up so lets see if it kills this bug for FL.
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I would doubt it will have much impact. There are plenty countries all along the equator with infections, so I don't have much hope of summertime temperatures doing much. But perhaps the higher humidity might be what has an impact.

I'm seeing 115 confirmed cases in Florida now. There is nothing I know of the prevent infections to just explode, so if you haven't already made preparations for becoming homebound for a while, it might be too late to stock up on many things.

There are going to be a lot of people out of work, and perhaps out of money. The economy is probably going to grind to a halt because people won't be going anywhere to spend money. Which will mean a lot of desperate people who will do desperate things.

I am getting a lot of emails from retail businesses trying to convince customers that it will be safe to come to their stores. So I am guessing they are already feeling the pinch. When business stops, they will have to let go employees. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, so things are going to go real ugly for them.

I have read quite a bit about these kinds of scenarios over the years. I had hoped I wouldn't have to actually live through one myself, though. Just not my idea of a great retirement in my "golden years". :(
 
Rich Z said:
I would doubt it will have much impact. There are plenty countries all along the equator with infections, so I don't have much hope of summertime temperatures doing much. But perhaps the higher humidity might be what has an impact.

I'm seeing 115 confirmed cases in Florida now. There is nothing I know of the prevent infections to just explode, so if you haven't already made preparations for becoming homebound for a while, it might be too late to stock up on many things.

There are going to be a lot of people out of work, and perhaps out of money. The economy is probably going to grind to a halt because people won't be going anywhere to spend money. Which will mean a lot of desperate people who will do desperate things.

I am getting a lot of emails from retail businesses trying to convince customers that it will be safe to come to their stores. So I am guessing they are already feeling the pinch. When business stops, they will have to let go employees. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, so things are going to go real ugly for them.

I have read quite a bit about these kinds of scenarios over the years. I had hoped I wouldn't have to actually live through one myself, though. Just not my idea of a great retirement in my "golden years". :(
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Maybe a good time to buy a Vette. I will be a mess for a few months to a year i guess.
 
CHASZ51 said:
Maybe a good time to buy a Vette. I will be a mess for a few months to a year i guess.
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Yeah, but have them drop it off in your driveway with the keys underneath the floor mat. Let it just sit there for a month so if any virus is inside, it will die off naturally in the heat inside.

I'm thinking many people aren't willing to make long term committments like buying a car. I want to get an extended warranty on my Grand Cherokee, but I'm going to hold off a bit. Just in case it turns out it isn't needed.
 
Rich Z said:
Yeah, but have them drop it off in your driveway with the keys underneath the floor mat. Let it just sit there for a month so if any virus is inside, it will die off naturally in the heat inside.

I'm thinking many people aren't willing to make long term committments like buying a car. I want to get an extended warranty on my Grand Cherokee, but I'm going to hold off a bit. Just in case it turns out it isn't needed.
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I held off on buying myself. Maybe use the money and play with stocks that i know nothing about. Never did stocks before, but would love to find someone that knows what to do.
 
CHASZ51 said:
I held off on buying myself. Maybe use the money and play with stocks that i know nothing about. Never did stocks before, but would love to find someone that knows what to do.
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Never played with stocks myself, neither. But I did work at Quotron for a while, that runs those stats you see in "ticker tapes". And I saw that it is a rich man's game. People with lots of money can directly control the market because they can buy and sell large lots, which directly influences everyone else. So they can sell a bunch of stock, which drops the prices, then buy it back again at a cheaper price to sell when the price rises again. It is all a game to them. Meanwhile the little guys get their life savings wiped out overnight if they aren't real careful.

Thanks, but no thanks. If you want to buy something that is just about guaranteed to remain valuable, no matter what, buy guns.
 
Rich Z said:
Never played with stocks myself, neither. But I did work at Quotron for a while, that runs those stats you see in "ticker tapes". And I saw that it is a rich man's game. People with lots of money can directly control the market because they can buy and sell large lots, which directly influences everyone else. So they can sell a bunch of stock, which drops the prices, then buy it back again at a cheaper price to sell when the price rises again. It is all a game to them. Meanwhile the little guys get their life savings wiped out overnight if they aren't real careful.

Thanks, but no thanks. If you want to buy something that is just about guaranteed to remain valuable, no matter what, buy guns.
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Sold most of my guns well before the prices went nuts.
 
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