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| Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: edavid on March 19, 2020, 06:49:30 pm --- --- Quote from: rgarito on March 19, 2020, 06:43:14 pm ---That reinforces a statement I made the other day.... If the economy keeps crashing like this, we (literally) will start to see a regression back to a barter-related economy... (in Russia, my ex-wife tells me that already is common in the more rural areas, long before this zombie apocalypse even started) --- End quote --- That makes no sense to me. You see barter when the central banks aren't trusted, or when there's high inflation. There's no sign of either of those happening. Around here people don't even want to make cash transactions, let alone bartering. Too much personal contact. --- End quote --- Exactly. I'm doing as much as I can through PayPal so that don't even have to show them a credit card. Running and drawing all of their cash out of their banks is a typical ill-prepared non-prepper reaction to any emergency. This time though, cash might be seen as a threat and not as a form of payment. |
| engrguy42:
Fyi, the population of the US is approximately 330 million. As of today, the CDC reports there have been a total of 150 deaths in the US so far from COVID-19. And of those who contract it, the death rate is around 2 to 4%. CDC also estimates that in the last 5 months there have been 22,000 - 55,000 deaths from the ordinary flu. Going overboard with rational precautions is a good thing, but irrational fear is never a good thing. |
| iMo:
--- Quote from: coppice on March 19, 2020, 08:38:37 pm --- --- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 19, 2020, 08:35:57 pm --- --- Quote from: rgarito on March 19, 2020, 06:56:55 pm ---Nah, in America, we are concentrating on testing members of sports teams... :palm: --- End quote --- And the politicians, and the movie stars! You can tell where America's priorities lay. --- End quote --- Considering the number of European politicians who have tested positive, they might just be testing the right demographic. --- End quote --- EU chief Brexit negotiator tested positive. Now, try to track down with whom he was in contact :) |
| not1xor1:
--- Quote from: imo on March 19, 2020, 12:20:00 pm ---Another Lesson Learned from this situation is the US and EU should return production of some materials, chemicals, equipment and other important goods back to US and EU. --- End quote --- this will be a hard and necessary lesson for those enough smart to learn this time it is COVID-19, next time might be another virus, or a meteorite crash, a nasty earthquake, a serious Carrington event and so on having all the eggs in a basket (i.e. all the production in a country) is bad for the whole world, for China too |
| Simon:
The UK curve, an almost perfect exponential curve of inaction! https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14 They can't even be botherd to update that until 6pm but it always says 9am, that's public health england, hopeless morons. |
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