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Participant[quote=Coronita]Imho this will drive more automation and less reliance on humans. High tech will do great , as we now have no choice but to reduce human interaction. So much opportunity.[/quote]
The recent and upcoming increases in minimum wage gonna be a disaster for unemployment.
Participant[quote=phaster]people experiencing homelessness[/quote]
Is this the new politically correct term for “bum” now ? “Homeless person” was just too harsh and mercilessly implies that maybe their own decisions got them in that state ?
ParticipantSan Diego graph just updated. The next obvious doubling may be 8 or 9 days.
FYI, In the US:
Flu deaths: 24,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2)
COVID-19 deaths: 14,668Flu season was starting to taper off when “stay at home” started. Curious what will happen to the flu next year if we have to do another month-long lock down in the fall. I don’t understand exactly how the flu virus works but could it serve to kill influenza once and for all ? It’s incubation period is 2-4 days.
ParticipantA decent data page here for California:
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/But absolute numbers used only. Nothing based on % of population or growth rate.
And San Diego county graph here is good.
We look to be in decent shape, as of 4/6 the last doubling took 7 days: 734 on 3/30 and 1453 on 4/6.In italy, the max deaths per day coincided pretty closely with the inflection point in total cases. Possible CA is right there. Someone said CA may not peak (I assume new cases per day) until May but I think CA may be there next week if not already.
April 8, 2020 at 4:23 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816319ParticipantI thought Pineapple Express was poor. Hard to watch. Ending was good, but it never got funny.
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=SDNative2]It’s been $2.59/gal for Premium the last two weeks north O’side.[/quote]
Really? Holy crap. So premium is probably around $2.79… I might need to go for a drive and fill up.[/quote]
Ya, FLU – if you haven’t been out of Carmel Valley you wouldn’t know gas prices have plummeted.
A few days ago it was 3.29 at ARCO in CV and 2.69 in Clairemont, and 2.49 at Costco.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=sdduuuude]Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, grocery store customers are now restricted from bringing in their own shopping bags.
Free one-time-use plastic bags are back in California !
I missed them.[/quote]Yeah me too. And I admit now, I was wrong, I need at least a small paper bag
I dont shower anymore, use wet wipes. Youd be surprised at how much more poop you’ll find with wet wipes.
And how much u want a bag.[/quote]
This site needs a button to flag posts as “Too Much Information” !
Participant[quote=evolusd]Not good news, the world needs to figure out a better way than single use plastic. Big problem IMO.
A bit ironic, though, that they banned plastic bags but everything you buy at the store and then put in your re-usable bags is packaged in plastic. Have to start somewhere, I guess.[/quote]
What is really weird that they spent so much money to get this passed in California, which is a drop-in-the-bucket of the worldwide problem. They could have spent all that money helping this guy and everyone would be alot better off:
How insignificant is the California law, compared to this one beach in India ?
Or this guy:
April 8, 2020 at 9:13 AM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816294Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]… pretty lame cheech and Chong.[/quote]
Blasphemy ! I read no further than this 😐
ParticipantNot a whole lot of these stories out there, which is good. This one is an eye-roller. At least the department backed out and said it was an “overreach”
Also, the guy who was arrested called the officers out for not having any protective gear on while cuffing him and for not practicing social distancing on the job – fight the power, baby !
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]Charles Dickens walked 20 miles a day!
I think most of us would feel better if we walked 4 or 5 hours a day.[/quote]
I might feel better if you walked 4 or 5 hours a day, but I wouldn’t feel better if I walked 4 or 5 hours a day.
ParticipantIf the plan to do this remodel is based on the idea that contractors are hungry for business, I would talk to a few first. I am not so sure they are hungry for business at all.
If the economy goes into recession due to the virus it could take months for the construction industry to feel it. The housing market is not like the stock market. It turns pretty slowly.
With that said, once your permit is ready to pull you can wait quite some time before it expires. Then, you have 6 months after pulling a permit to call for your first inspection. My thought is – start on the permit now so you can pull it once the market softens.
I like this plan because being in a rush makes dealing with the city more difficult. It seems smoother when you aren’t in a rush because you have time to do any stupid shit they make you do so the requests don’t seem so frustrating.
Getting a permit like the one you need shouldn’t be too bad. I would avoid an architect – just draw up a floor plan on your own and find a structural engineer on yelp to do the construction drawings. If you are not much into DIY, consider a design-build contractor that will do floorplan, structural, pull the permit, and built it for you. I do my own general contracting and don’t mind dealing with the city so I don’t like this option and they may not like you playing games with the schedule as I mentioned above, but for a rental owned by a non-DYI person it can be a good option.
The permitting process is actually quite organized down at the city dept of development services. Just make an appointment to pull a construction permit and let them walk you through it. The first step will be to pull zoning maps with all the overlays you hope don’t exist. Play dumb, be super nice, ask lots of questions like “what is next” and “can you make a list of all the things I need” or “who can help me with that?
So, that is my thought – start on the permit now. Take your time, maybe try to do it on your own, or with the help of a permit runner. Once the permit is ready, if the market hasn’t softened just wait to pull it as long as you can. Then pull the permit. If contractors still busy, wait to start construction up to 180 days and call for your first inspection, which might be a pre-construction meeting anyway.
Participant[quote=zk]The first step would be to vote out incompetents and vote in people who are reasonable, intelligent, thoughtful, cool-headed, etc. and who care about the country more than they care about themselves or their party. [/quote]
Someone like that would have to run first. Still waiting.
Participant[quote=ltsddd][quote=spdrun]Trump was bad, Cuomo wasn’t much better. [/quote]
…and De Blasio was even more awful for being stubborn about closing down the schools. I wonder if that’s the difference between California vs New York’s infection trajectory (well, then there’s the crowded subway also).[/quote]
I’d guess that population density, weather, local social habits and tendencies, pre-exiting test kits and pre-existing hospital capacity drive the spread significantly more than the government’s reaction or orders. Data provided by the CDC certainly helps but everyone pretty much has access to the same info.
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