You're not wrong, craigs. We can also blame the sort of entitled douchebaggery that's shared in this thread.

As for Hugo Boss, I was watching a WWII documentary on Netflix...Hugo Boss designed and made the Nazi SS uniform. How are they not completely toxic now?

What masks is everyone sporting?

At first I wore some crappy mask that my sister-in-law made and mailed us (when it was all but impossible to find anything). Now I've been wearing a Chicago-flag mask I picked up from Walgreen's for a few bucks.

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Florida reopened bars and restaurants about a month and a half ago as did Texas and Arizona. Didn't go so well. They are back closed again and basically the shut down cycle has had to start over from square one.

It's not useful to map US cultural symbolism onto Europe at this point. Our death rate is in pronounced decline. Nobody in Stockholm, where mask use is incredibly marginal (you can walk around all day without seeing one), is thinking about Donald Trump or US-style "don't tread on me" rationalizations when they go outside. He is profoundly unpopular here, but has also become a very background, distant thing.

Swedish policy, flawed as it has proven to be, was and is based on the idea that most people will eventually be exposed to Covid-19, and the measures taken were only taken to make sure the flow into the healthcare system was a steady one.

There is no defiant or oppositional cultural meaning to going maskless here. It's just totally normal, for better or worse.

I could care less what they designed and for who, Hugo Boss makes some good clothing. High quality clothing too. I love their leather jackets and suits. Whats done is done. That's in the past now. Time to move on (speaking in general as a concept, not to you directly). Also, from a fashion perspective, emotion aside, those uniforms did look sharp, yah gotta admit. Some sexy looking uniforms, from a fashion standpoint.

It would be like saying Mercedes Benz is toxic because the Mercedes Benz 770 was driven by SS Officials.

Regardless of history, I'll continue to wear Hugo Boss and drive a Benz because its a good product. And I implore others to do so. Don't let moronic PC folks in the media and SJW folks tell you otherwise. German products are great.

Yesterdays Corona update (for NJ):

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For those that didn't see it. Can just fast forward where applicable.

Rather long but interesting article discussing the economic impact thus far of covid 19 on Boomtown Austin. Ignore the hyperbolic headline. It is actually a pretty good look at things here in Austin regarding the near term outlook for business and real estate. https://marker.medium.com/austin-was...t-6d5f5a332e04

So I have a lot of friends in Scandinavia who 1.) Don't believe in masks whatsoever and refuse to wear them 2.) Are socializing and partying. I've seen countrless people on IG stories at packed night clubs/warehouse events in Copenhagen - no social distancing whatsoever.

It seems like this trend is pretty common throughout Europe right now based on people I follow in other countries too. Lots of hang outs indoors, group dinners, very busy restaurants etc.

I certainly admire (and am envious) that so any Euro countries were able to effectively contain the virus, but is it just me, or are things oddly laisse-faire suddenly over there? Is it too pre-mature?

Via latest news for NYC, Alcohol can only be sold to folks ordering food AND seated at a table.

An establishments that receives 3 violations will be shut down. Egregious violations, they can lose their likherlicense.. um... liquor license I meant!

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This is going to really suck for businesses given that ethanol is a big source of revenue for some places.

Give it 1-2 weeks, then we will see.

I don't know about Denmark, which was much stricter about COVID-19, but in Sweden it is not a case of "coming out of lockdown". The bars and patios have been packed ever since summer began, and there was never any real shift in social attitudes or wearing of masks. Shops, bars and restaurants have been open the whole time.

The truth is, our bad numbers are near-entirely a result of an incredibly poor handling of elderly care situations. People were never really just catching this in the road, and I think the average age of coronavirus fatalities is still higher than the average life expectancy.

Many German based companies (that existed in the '30s and '40s) helped with the Nazi effort, including Mercedes, Bosch, VW.

And US-based ones like Ford.

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u.s. be like “here’s a job application, boss” to nazis

*starts convulsing*

J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric, Standard Oil, National City, Chase, and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, General Motors, Ford Motor Company...

*explodes*

oss be like “wait why are we fighting the nazis its the reds”

The Nazis were quite popular in the U.S. in their earliest years.

Henry Ford loved Hitler, the Catholic Church supported him. At least they weren't leftist libtards, and Hitler was just Making Germany Great Again. There were actually large Nazi rallies and even Nazi summer camps, in the U.S. And Jews were widely considered bad hombres.

All this got swept under the rug after Pearl Harbor and in the postwar "Greatest Generation" mythology, but Hitler could have plausibly won the Presidency here in the U.S.

i dont know maybe but the u.s. was actually built upon the platform that hitler was desperately trying to create in less than a generation (and got policed) in all of that ugliness so there was no need for that here. 3000 straight miles of lebensraum. no need for nazism as it was done.

the u.s. was the time machine fourth reich.

Not to go too far off subject but... Much of that pseudo-science proclaiming the "Aryan race" to be the pure human form and the pinnacle of humanity started in the U.S. America gave Hitler the guide book to create the Nazi movement.

yeah. as i was alluding to hitler only got in trouble because he was trying to compress hundreds of years of american empire into a generation in the middle of europe instead of kansas and that was a bridge too far.

I was examining the moving average daily deaths in the US and Brazil and that’s very worrisome.

While Europe peaked, plateaued there for 2-3 weeks and then watched a sharp decline, both countries reached the peak, stayed there and there’s no signs of receding.

The infection simply doesn’t go away, making impossible for people to resume their normal lives.