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rgarito:

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--- Quote from: rgarito on March 17, 2020, 05:46:21 pm ---

Apparently the feds are talking about a $1000 check being mailed to most Americans, but that wont last long and by the time it gets through all the red tape, it'll be amazing if much is left.

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  The problem with mailing everyone a $1000 check is that most of them will take it and blow it within a few hours on a big screen TV or other non-essential.  Also many will travel somewhere to spend it.  This is not the time to encourage people to go out shopping. I would much rather the government simply apply a $1000 credit to everyone's tax bill so that they effectively keep their entire pay check and/or unemployment check and that the credit will get paid out gradually and not all at once which would simply encourage people to waste it.

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I think that the problem there also is that the inconvenient truth is that many types of people are not eligible for unemployment so taking out of your taxes on unemp check doesn't help everyone.  And in many states (like Florida) unemployment is about enough to buy a cup of coffee.  Won't even put a tiny dent in 1 month's rent.

rgarito:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 17, 2020, 06:22:40 pm ---I don't know that I'd even notice $1000, it would cover almost 2 weeks of my mortgage, and that's if they didn't take taxes out of it first. If I found myself needing to find a job it wouldn't buy much time. It's a nice gesture I suppose but it's a bit like seeing someone in a boat with a large hole in the hull and tossing them a roll of duct tape.

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Yeah...  It would cover less than 1/2 of my rent.  And my rent is actually low for South Florida.  Many of the newer apartments are $2500-3000 a month even for a small closet.  (we are trying to compete with NYC).

Luckily, I am FAR from unemployed and if they could clone each of us, they would.  We are having to get really creative to even handle the load, but then again, just about every mid to large business on the planet uses us for work from home and a LOT of medical uses us for other things too (including nursing stations).

rgarito:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 17, 2020, 06:30:31 pm ---
It would be reassuring to know that billions are being spent on developing a vaccine!

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Problem is that money only goes so far to "speed up the process." 

Stray Electron:
  We've been very lucky in that a number of well heeled people have stepped up and donated millions of dollars to to medical research as soon as they heard about this. If the researchers had had to go through their usual sources to ask for funding and then wait till their next budget was approved then it would have been far far too late.   This video mentions the donors several times and the last segment talks exclusively about some of the donors.

https://externalmediasite.partners.org/Mediasite/Play/45a9a74f18ec45deb338e00ac4cf4e281d

Bud:

--- Quote from: rcbuck on March 17, 2020, 07:10:32 am ---
--- Quote ---You take city water supply for granted
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Being over 70 years old and never having seen city water cut off I guess I do take it for granted. And the chances of it being cut off are probably 0.000001%. I don't understand the bottled water syndrome. Tap water is perfectly drinkable and 100% lower in cost. I think the people who buy bottled water have the same mindset as people who pay $5 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks that you can get for $1 at the Circle K store.

If you don't like the taste of tap water, buy a water pitcher that has a replaceable charcoal filter. It is still close to 100% cheaper than bottled water and environmentally friendly. The biggest pollution problem we have is disposable water bottles.

Edit: If tap water is shut off I will just take a couple of 10 gallon jugs over to Lake Pleasant and fill them up.

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I am totally fine with the taste of tap water, i just chimed about the reasoning why people  buy bottled water today.  As you may
have guessed, only a few of them have a liberty of filling their water canisters up from Lake Pleasant.

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