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April 8, 2020 at 8:47 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816335April 8, 2020 at 8:39 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816334
svelteParticipant[quote=zk] We had Big Bambu on tape and a few hours to kill, so we fired up a J (or three) and cued up some Cheech and Chong on the car’s tape deck…. [/quote]
See ZK gets it…the albums were where the gold was!
April 8, 2020 at 8:36 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816333svelteParticipantI. Am. A big Cheech and Chong fan!
I grew up on that stuff. Great!
My first exposure was this (the father-son dialog is classic):
Then they stripped out the dialog and put out a video for it later:
(I still sing that song around the house to this day)
There is something about having nothing on this earth, but being proud and happy about the little bit that you do have. I’ve been there brother:
Or how about Sister Mary Elephant:
Love the summer vacation story!
You have to remember, they were famous for the albums first, then the movies came out after they hit it big.
I still watch the movies sometimes and like them, but the albums were their best stuff.
I think they are one of those “you had to be there” thing…if you’re just stumbling onto them now, it’s way to late to understand.
Or maybe you just need to get high first.
svelteParticipantI dunno, “Boomer Remover” is not that much different than when my buddies and I see the stupid stuff young folks do and say they are cleansing the gene pool.
Same thing.
Remember the “Jackass” shows? C.T.G.P.
svelteParticipant[quote=The-Shoveler]
We need to do something fast, simply staying closed down (maybe 6-18 months) until there are “no” new cases is not an option IMO. We will be done as a nation.[/quote]I don’t think the goal is to get to zero new cases before restrictions are lifted. That is not practical.
The goal is to spread out the transmissions such that hospitals don’t get overwhelmed.
Yes, Stay At Home will be lifted in a few weeks, but life will by no means be completely back to normal. Until when and if a vaccine is widely distributed, transmissions will continue to occur. That likely means we’ll be living with some sort of modified behavior for a year or two.
Just like in 1918-1920.
svelteParticipant[quote=livinincali] There’s definitely other vectors of spread that don’t involve coughing/droplets which is letting this thing linger. [/quote]
There definitely is and that’s why they have people wear gloves. The virus can live on surfaces.
We must all go out at least a few times a week for groceries, gas etc. Be especially vigilant when you go to those places.
svelteParticipantI get New York CV cases being high.
New Jersey is NYC – adjacent so it is high.
I get Lousiana being high after Mardi Gras.
Why are Michigan CV cases and deaths so high?
svelteParticipantWalking can get a bit boring after awhile.
We now have a dog, however, and that has made a world of difference. She keeps things interesting during the walk.
Yesterday she found a rabbit and would have caught it if it hadn’t been for the leash.
Lots of dog walkers out there now. Everywhere! But people are good about keeping at least a 20 ft buffer between us. Doesn’t feel risky to me at all.
svelteParticipantLooking at China, even after restrictions are lifted things don’t return to “normal”.
I bet similar things happen here. People will be very leery of each other…there will still be a large number of people who haven’t had CV and are afraid of getting it…that will change the behavior of public places such as restaurants, gyms, bars, movies.
I bet things don’t totally return to “normal” for at least a couple of years.
svelteParticipantyeah, my experience this last month with instacart was not good either.
The shopper was great, kudos to her.
But since some of what I was buying was out of stock she tried to text me with alternatives and instacart kept me from responding.
She picked up some substitute chicken but told me instacart was trying to charge me $30 for a $10 pack of chicken. !!
She found a way around that but really irked me. Not a good first experience.
svelteParticipantNumber of CV cases in San Diego County, broken down by ZIP code:
svelteParticipantI like that answer. It’s straight up.
One reason I found the article interesting is it matched my experience. You may have read on here where I said I’ve gotten screwed by international stocks many many times and am tired of getting my fingers burned. Well, that’s exactly what the chart in the post showed.
Maybe now I should jump back in? That’s what I’m trying to evaluate. My recent analysis says that US stocks have dropped a lot yes, but that doesn’t mean they are undervalued, just that they were way overvalued.
So where does that leave me?
Contemplating international. But maybe I’ll buy a set of asbestos gloves first…
svelteParticipantCoronavirus would have happened in the US with our without Trump.
Has he made some mistakes in dealing with it?
Yes, but so have I.
We can discuss whether he was late to the game, what his motives were, and on and on.
But with respect to this thread, I think it is of minor importance.
svelteParticipantUsing the 1918 Spanish Flu as a data point, let’s see what history has to show us. As I’ve stated before, it is a little hard to tell because WW1 was happening at the same time. See attached stock market graph.
The US entering WW1 definitely had a negative impact on the stock market. However, the stock market continued downward after the war ended in November 1918.
Did it continue downward because of the Spanish Flu? It is unclear. Notice how when WW2 ended, there was also a short blip downward, perhaps due to knowing absorbing the troops back into the economy would be challenging. It could be the same thought process used in Nov 1918 after WW1. Or it could be that it continued downward because of the Spanish Flu.
Not often mentioned is the depression of 1920-1921. The current line of thinking is that was caused by the adjustments from a wartime to peacetime economy, labor union strife, and changes to monetary policy.
It is difficult to extract from this what will happen to the stock market due to COVID-19.
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svelteParticipantsorry scaredy. I can imagine that is very sobering.
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