Off topic “coronavirus”

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=outtamojo]I cant wait for the investigations- should be about 200000 or so of them, based on the benghazi protocol.[/quote]

I would like to see a proportional symmetrical response.

[Coronita]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/us/coronavirus-time-risk/index.html

This is what I thought could be the reason why the infection rate was much higher on cruise ships, not just mask and hygiene related.

If the above is true, this is really bad news for indoor venues like casinos.

You won’t see me going to an indoor venue anytime soon until more people serve as a guinea pig and prove or disprove this. I’ll wait for other test subjects . 🙂

[outtamojo]

Oh no a bike shortage!

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

This is good!

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!

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This is good![/quote]
I love it. Americans should learn to ride bikes leisurely like they do in the Netherlands. And ride bikes to go somewhere.

Riding bikes in full gear may be necessary for safety, without a useful destination, only for exercise, seems a waste or time and kinda ridiculous.

[outtamojo]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

This is good![/quote]

My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.

[Coronita]

[quote=outtamojo][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

This is good![/quote]

My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1 400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.[/quote]

Buy him a car if he’s going to ucd. 1. It will make him feel better 2. He’ll be a popular kid. 3. Car prices have been and will continue to go down. 4. He deserves a reward for his hard work and accomplishments, despite stupid school administrators not giving him credit for it.

UCD is a good school. He’ll do fine.

It has a good accelerated program for medicine.

It’s also pretty high up there for veterinarian medicine, next to Cornell.

Everyone knows that.

Congrats!

[svelte]

[quote=Coronita][quote=outtamojo][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

This is good![/quote]

My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1 400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.[/quote]

Buy him a car if he’s going to ucd. 1. It will make him feel better 2. He’ll be a popular kid. 3. Car prices have been and will continue to go down. 4. He deserves a reward for his hard work and accomplishments, despite stupid school administrators not giving him credit for it.

UCD is a good school. He’ll do fine.
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UCD is a great school – behind only Stanford in northern California. Maybe behind UCB for certain majors.

I’m not sure getting him a car will raise his social stature there. It is very much a green-leaning school so a bike might be better. Davis was known for always pushing the envelope on the environmental front with lots of psuedo-hippy students and professors. Things may have changed since I hung out there but I doubt it.

I remember my Dad and I toured a solar housing development there in the 1970s – and nobody was doing solar in the 1970s!

You should not feel apologetic about UCD at all. It is highly regarded, he’ll get a great education, and he’ll love the area. And from a parents perspective: it is a very safe town and costs are relatively low as far as California goes. It is so close to Sac that you’ll have lots to do when you go up for visits. Downtown Sac is very vibrant now with lots of bars and restaurants – my wife and I were surprised how much it has changed since we lived up that way. A great live music venue that looks like a hole-in-the-wall: Torch Club.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita][quote=outtamojo][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

This is good![/quote]

My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1 400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.[/quote]

Buy him a car if he’s going to ucd. 1. It will make him feel better 2. He’ll be a popular kid. 3. Car prices have been and will continue to go down. 4. He deserves a reward for his hard work and accomplishments, despite stupid school administrators not giving him credit for it.

UCD is a good school. He’ll do fine.
[/quote]

UCD is a great school – behind only Stanford in northern California. Maybe behind UCB for certain majors.

I’m not sure getting him a car will raise his social stature there. It is very much a green-leaning school so a bike might be better. Davis was known for always pushing the envelope on the environmental front with lots of psuedo-hippy students and professors. Things may have changed since I hung out there but I doubt it.

I remember my Dad and I toured a solar housing development there in the 1970s – and nobody was doing solar in the 1970s!

You should not feel apologetic about UCD at all. It is highly regarded, he’ll get a great education, and he’ll love the area. And from a parents perspective: it is a very safe town and costs are relatively low as far as California goes. It is so close to Sac that you’ll have lots to do when you go up for visits. Downtown Sac is very vibrant now with lots of bars and restaurants – my wife and I were surprised how much it has changed since we lived up that way. A great live music venue that looks like a hole-in-the-wall: Torch Club.[/quote]

Car is not a status item now. Definitely was in 1983.

Cargo bike would increase status.

[outtamojo]

How about riding a bike and wearing cargo pants?
Dude has been driving since junior year- he doing doordash for about 100 bucks a day and pushing his business costs into me.

I kinda glad he chose UCD- it’s my alma mater! I got in with waay lower credentials than him.

[Coronita]

didn’t suggest car was a status symbol. but it would be nice to have a car if going to davis

[svelte]

If he gets a cargo bike, he should get one designed nearby and named after a nearby river:

Home page

Village Homes is probably the community my father and I visited in Davis around 1979-80:

https://steemit.com/health/@jennislay/sustainable-suburbia-exploring-village-homes-in-davis-ca

[outtamojo]

Oh no bad data from Georgia
https://news.yahoo.com/georgias-coronavirus-numbers-made-reopening-183733274.html

[outtamojo]

University of Ca. imposes pay freeze…on non-unionized employees. I can just hear some of those employees in their break rooms asking each other why they didn’t join a Union.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/20/university-of-california-imposes-pay-freeze-as-losses-mount.html

[Coronita]

[quote=outtamojo]University of Ca. imposes pay freeze…on non-unionized employees. I can just hear some of those employees in their break rooms asking each other why they didn’t join a Union.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/20/university-of-california-imposes-pay-freeze-as-losses-mount.html%5B/quote%5D

I don’t see anything wrong with a salary freeze. they are lucky it wasn’t a salary cut. Most aren’t even teaching

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