Uiroo
Señor Member
Depends how often you go shopping. I go with my girlfriend, it's not optimal, but she knows what to buy when half of the stuff isn't available since she makes the food, and I can carry stuff home that lasts 10 days.
How's your life affected by Covid-19?
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chillbot
Sock Muppet
Well just for one possible reason, my wife and I go together... she's shopping for us and I'm shopping for my parents. But we have to checkout separately because of limits, if we both want a dozen eggs, etc.
sostenuto
AKA _ doubtingtom37
IRA in toilet.
(edit) Bill Gates says 'complete shutdown' ...... Several 'media' headlines. Reading his actual op-ed makes clear his meaning .... which is plain common sense. Back to avoiding daily news despite days 'home alone'.
Can survive this if growers, harvesters, shippers, diesel /gasoline, grocery outlets run flawlessly.
(edit) Bill Gates says 'complete shutdown' ...... Several 'media' headlines. Reading his actual op-ed makes clear his meaning .... which is plain common sense. Back to avoiding daily news despite days 'home alone'.
Can survive this if growers, harvesters, shippers, diesel /gasoline, grocery outlets run flawlessly.
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Dewdman42
Senior Member
your IRA will come back by end of the year probably...worst case in a year or two. Don't panic sell. You won't lose anything unless you sell now.
Now as to your income needs this year, my heart goes out...I don't know what to say, a lot of people are going to be in similar dire situation in coming months...2020 will be a rough year for a lot of people.
Now as to your income needs this year, my heart goes out...I don't know what to say, a lot of people are going to be in similar dire situation in coming months...2020 will be a rough year for a lot of people.
Kevin Fortin
Active Member
Thank goodness I'm not on a cruise ship.
What?!!! Planet Earth is just one big cruise ship?
What?!!! Planet Earth is just one big cruise ship?
MauroPantin
I engrave little black dots
There's no doubt the Chinese government is shady as shit. It has been for decades, with remarkable issues in human rights. Everybody just chooses to ignore that because it puts a cheap phone in their hands.
It would be great if moving forward the silver lining for all of this would be ethics and transparency back in the business equation, instead of just looking at the bottom line. But I know better than to hope for that.
It would be great if moving forward the silver lining for all of this would be ethics and transparency back in the business equation, instead of just looking at the bottom line. But I know better than to hope for that.
X-Bassist
Senior Member
I actually think shipping will see a huge boon (FED EX is already hiring thousands more) and growers will always be seen as a necessity, even if the government needs to pay for robots to plant and pick it all (and deliver it). But many will need to get use to home delivery, in fact I expect stores to start offering free home delivery (some have here) for the coming months. Shop online, get it in 2 or 3 days worse case. Which if you think about it, may even make gas a moot point (and dirt cheap).
But this is a great time to get through all that software you've purchased over the last few years (especially you
) and make some use of it. Download a movie scene and score it, or grab your favorite score or symphony and try to replicate it with what you have. You will not only get to know your library, but you will deepen your musical abilities on top of that. Then when jobs return you will be ready, and hopefully have some new demos for your website.There will be a bounce back, and a need for composer will return, but will we be ready? Until then banks will be forgiving, Credit card companies will forgo late fees, and neighbors will hopefully be helping neighbors (even Uncle Sam is sending me a check for $1200, imagine that). And hopefully we will be better prepared for the next time, probably around flu season, and realize if we take precautions, we are blessed to have quiet time to work on our craft.
I feel blessed that because of being forced to work from my home studio for several years, I’ve been more productive this past week than before this started. Cheers.
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chimuelo
Star Of Stage & Screen
This is their chance to try and climb over the West. Doesn’t matter if that was their intention last year, but it sure is now as they damn near purchased the IP person at the UN recently but failed as member states not yet owned by China’s Belt/Road loans/debt, are starting to see the real Chinese government.
The UN should seek reparations after this most recent Chinese Pandemic.
It’s not their first.
Shady is too kind of a word.
If one were to really pay attention to patterns and data, you;d notice the day after Western journalists got kicked out, no new cases of Covid-19 reported?
You’d think American media would at least mention this.
I read this report from Australia.
Seems theyore not trying to impeach their leaders, so they actually do investigative journalism instead of following their billionaires orders.
To keep busy I bought a TC Helicon Voice Rack.
Programming and automating harmonies + FX, for 50+ songs.
This thing sounds fantastic.
Keeps me from yelling at the Wife & kids.
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Marko Zirkovich
Active Member
Why not use the Helicon to yell at your wife and kids in harmony? Diminished harmonies and/or lots of tritones or minor 2nd clusters could put some true oompphhh into the domestic rage.
Dewdman42
Senior Member
it is simply not reasonable at all to assume that China could have escalated so quickly to 80,000 cases out of nowhere and then suddenly stop growing. The only way they could have stopped it that fast is if they had known about it for quite a while before and had put in place plans to contain it. If they did, then they should have let the world know a lot earlier. if they didn't, then they are lying about it now for whatever purpose they have. The whole story is not congruent. With so many chinese people and watching the spread here in USA in comparison, it is just not reasonable at all to think that they only had 80k cases and stopped it dead right there somehow.
Its hard to know what, if anything, china is up to, but I don't trust them.
I suspect they are just lying about it now. But we shall see...
My hope is that USA will wake up and stop relying on cheap Chinese products so much. We have allowed ourselves to get weaker while we sought to have cheaper leisure lifestyle.
Its hard to know what, if anything, china is up to, but I don't trust them.
I suspect they are just lying about it now. But we shall see...
My hope is that USA will wake up and stop relying on cheap Chinese products so much. We have allowed ourselves to get weaker while we sought to have cheaper leisure lifestyle.
Quasar
Senior Member
I agree. I've never blocked anyone on an internet forum, ever. What I've never understood is why this would be necessary when it is so incredibly easy to simply skip over what you do not wish to read. If you were bothering me by ringing my doorbell, calling on the phone with voice mails or texts, then yeah, those things disrupt my day and I would have to stop and deal with them....
...But an internet post is entirely unintrusive unless you choose to engage it.
Quasar
Senior Member
I am quite diligently forcing myself to refrain from any and all speculation about any long-term sociopolitical reshaping as a result of this. IMHO any speculation at this point is just that, and I see no reason to wrap my consciousness in scenarios (whether positive or negative) that may or may not ever come to pass. To use the cliche, I'm just staying in the NOW, man...
Dewdman42
Senior Member
Most people that block and especially if they want everyone to know they are blocking....are doing it as a form of insult. why people feel they need to insult other people they don't agree with is another matter.
Sears Poncho
Senior Member
It's not about an "opposing view". There are opposing views on immigration, taxes, health care, military spending etc.
We were told that it's the biggest inauguration crowd ever, when a moron with an IQ of 6 could see that it wasn't. There is no "opposing view". We have learned about "alternative facts". We have been told, 50 zillion times, that something didn't happen. Then we find out it happened. And then it's "well it's not a crime". We have a pathological liar who lies basically every time he opens his trap. None of this is "opposing views". We had a Dotard fire up rubes about Barry Sotero being born in Kenya. He's a mooooooslim, one who happens to smoke and drink. So, none of this is "opposing views".
Our school shootings were a hoax. As absurd as the math is on that, there are millions of morons that believe this shit. A major news network (Fox) has disparaged victims. One of my buddies had a kid in school in Sandy Hook (older than the victims). I mentioned this on FB and a total stranger called me a liar. I turned off the "anyone can post" feature.
This has been years in the making. The dumbocrats are running a sex slave pizza shop. Sounds stupid...until some idiot went in with a gun and started shooting. Our lead virus Doctor is getting death threats, the result of years of "It's fake news from the lamestream media" . We had a dotard mock the handicapped, it's on video. Nope, didn't happen. Sean Hannity didn't say blah blah, even though it's on a friggin video. We had a stupid ass take a sharpie to a weather map.
Opposing views? Nope. Just a steaming sack of crap.
Soundhound
Senior Member
No self control. I see someone say something idiotic or dangerous, I go off. Not saying it's a good thing, it's definitely not... Kind of even more hair trigger now what with that annoying apocalypse and all...
gsilbers
Part of Pulsesetter-Sounds.com
Hopefully it’ll be a positive. Because it can also yield a negative one. Like 9/11 was justification for the Iraq war and two decade long midde East wars.
So for example the notion of tracing infected people Via cell phone tracking and turning into a surveliance state.
Or on the other extreme, People in the USA suddenly saying hey... 3trillion in bailout for companies but health care was too expensive?!
