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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Buckeneye said:
I don't even know what this means. Desperation? What are we desperate for? Maybe for the masses to heed the warnings of medical professionals. Sure, I'll give you that. I just don't see how you can begin to even find a parallel to football from this (very) real world mess.
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Perspective losing football games end of world .,someone’s grandma dying acceptable,
 
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Thump said:
I'm SHOCKED the African continent isn't under viral siege right now.
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Jax, I wouldn't want to trust too many politicians anywhere right now. The only evidence supporting hydroxychloroquine is a 36 person trial in France. Anyone here trust the French or the findings of a 36 person trial? Didn't think so. Anyone trust, oh nevermind...


Here is the spread worldwide in real time: https://ncov2019.live/data.


Thump, none of these pandemics in recent years have really taken root in Africa and, as the map shows below, climate effects are not about heat but rather humidity. It would seem that Westerners and Asians are much more likely to get these things. H1N1, H5N1, and COVID-19 all seem to be following the same pattern.

http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibra...bnationalMasterGradcolour_20100321_weekly.png

When you look at this map, remember that this projection distorts the size of countries. The USA, China, India, and Europe all fit easily into the African landmass. Africa's population is about the same as China and India.

https://images.app.goo.gl/yXXA9WEZZM8hPq4n8
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Or the more that I think about it, it's being held back in the expectation of some form of government sanctioned rationing. Think about it. If your local Kroger runs out of toilet paper or dried pasta, they don't call up the toilet paper or pasta company to manufacture a new batch. The stuff is there. It's in the supermarket companies' regional distribution centers and in the manufacturers' warehouses. The panic buying started on Thursday morning, and they still haven't restocked by Tuesday afternoon. Either our corporate supply chain and logistics management is grotesquely incompetent, or there are other factors at work behind the scenes. Care to comment, @Steve19 ?
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I don't know what is going on there well enough to comment. The South African government has regulated prices of some goods and will jail people caught price gouging. South African retail and pharmacy chains are self-limiting purchases and, with the exception of hand sanitizer, there are no shortages. People are quite relaxed and rather horrified about what we see on the TV from the US and Europe. People are staying home and the streets are not empty but I suppose traffic is about 80% down. Supply chain and logistics technology in the US is a bit behind South Africa in many respects (e.g., RFID main patents are 80% South African and retail is much more concentrated, which simplifies things). For example, 80% of South African supermarket chains were using bar code checkout and inventory control systems 5 years ahead of the second country, the US, despite the fact that the universal bar code was invented in Columbus. Business analytics-based commerce has been used here for more than two decades. So, probably it is on a par across the two countries, the difference being the much less concentrated holding in national chains.

Against that background, here goes. Modern retailing is data-driven. Regional distribution hubs are linked to manufacturers and retail outlets. The key is to minimize stockholding and supply "just-in-time". A major discontinuity, like COVID-19, stimulates buying that would depart considerably from a machine learning model of prior weeks data. This would then cause models to have to be recalibrated all the way upstream to the raw material producers. As they respond, you can get an effect like you experience in heavy traffic. Move stop, move stop, until things smooth out. Fisher College of Business has some leading minds in this area and I am guessing that they might be doing some public talks on this.

So, it may be that companies are holding back stocks trying to drive up prices and profit from this, but I think it is likely that the jolt has disrupted the "just-in-time" inventory control systems so much that manufacturers will have trouble responding immediately due to lack of capacity and raw materials and clarity about future production requirements. One other thing, when you are running on such tight model-driven supply chain models, calling in extra staff and the like will drive up the production costs of goods. So moderate price increases may reflect that rather than profiteering.
 
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kujirakira said:
Bloomberg could, by himself, keep the train rolling for months.
All of our 401ks just got transferred to a handful of people shorting the market.
And then the Fed printed 2 Trillion in 3 days, pumped it directly into Wall Street, and it too transferred directly to the those short sellers.

There's no reason for anyone to go hungry or lose their home or even get hit with penalties or accrued interest, but a lot of Redcoats in this country that love King George so long as he's draped himself in rhetoric about a 'free market' that's never existed.
Meanwhile this Free Market is getting socialist bailouts for the 2nd time in 10 years.
But Pelosi and Schumer want to block a measly $1k to us common schmucks.

I just dont take the economy stuff seriously because people will either realize what's been going on for past 40 years, or not.
And while i think it's wise to take every step to halt this pandemic, im really not going to miss those who have voted - on both sides of the aisle - for that oligarchy over the past 40 years.

In other news, first confirmed employee on Thursday.
And my Uncle in Cleveland was exposed to a known coworker, and now has a cough. His College daughter is staying at home and going out with friends in the evenings.
She wont be affected. Her friends wont be affected. But how will those friendships look when her friends parent or grandparent ends up in the hospital?
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The feckless reactions by neolibs is going to see them soon outflanked on the left by conservatives and then they'll be truly done. Bunch of fools who are too worried about forms and rulebooks instead of adapting and taking care of people.

The truth is we need ongoing payments to people out of work to cover food and mortgage/bills. Don't bother with means testing now. Send the payments out and amend tax codes later to get the money back from those that didn't need it. that way no one has to worry about going hungry or being late on payments.

Should be a moratorium on foreclosures/evictions, and cut offs of water/electricity anyway.
 
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Buckeneye said:
Are you attempting to say that there are some here who panic with Buckeye football, but are in here being cavalier with lives? I feel like that's what you're saying?
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I thought he was saying that some may panic if facing a Buckeye loss and would gladly kill someone's grandma for a win?

(Not that anyone here would do something like that mind you)

hypothesizing for a friend
 
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