Yeah, I think a lot of people will do that. *Right now* me and my girlfriend have money and we're good, but the talk coming from her companies CEO isn't looking good. SO we will save the 2,400 dollar.

You better bet though, as soon as this is all over(whatever that looks like), as long as we both have money and jobs, we are going to pay it forward:

Invest in some stocks
Go out to eat a lot, picking smaller places
Go to bars(we hardly do it, but they are being destroyed right now)
Donate to a local charity

My political philosophy is keeping me from being excited about this money, I honestly don't need it. However, if my girlfriend loses her job, we will need it and more, so I am grateful to out political leaders(for once).

We've already spent about half of what we will get throwing $100 or $150 into a dozen or so of the gofundmes in our little neighborhood commercial node of bars and restaurants. We are both home all day so prior to this lockdown we'd go out to eat 5 or 6 nights a week.

Those crowds went back to a hundred different "homes" and probably created new foci of disease but it will take another week or so for those foci to become apparent I suspect and it will be hard to lay blame.

It would be interesting to plot cases in small college towns around the northeast and midwest and see if they stand out compared to the background of their mainly rural surroundings.

That Navy Hospital ship arrived in LA. The other Navy Ship should arrive sometime next week for NY.

Given that folks from all over the U.S. go to that, the event began February 25, 2020 ... and lasts a few weeks normally, I hope they stopped that rubbish late February. Because given the incubation period, if folks were infected, they should of started to feel stuff around early or mid March. Possibly contributing to the spike in "X" cities across the nation.

Florida's governor obviously tried to deflect criticism for not closing the beaches by implementing those quarantine orders for people traveling from New York.

This is where stimulus should be going, not to employed people that make decent money. Putting money in a bank is not going to encourage a bank to lend and will do nothing for people that need support.

This has me quite confused. They suggested it would take a week to sail from San Diego to LA. Of course it didn't.

Niether should it take a week to sail from Newport News (Norfolk) to New York. It should be doing at least 15 - 20 knots, 24 hours/day. I make that reaching New York in 2 days or so.

Addendum: Just checked and it leaves tomorrow, arrives Monday so 2 days was right on.

• Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Wo53IZZDU

USNS Mercy arriving in LA:

• Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFZUFhcvV68

Inside these 2 ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-7rMLji74

Note: How come the former/usual embedding process for Youtube isn't working these days?

^^The plan seems to be to use these ships to treat patients without coronavirus so that regular shore hospitals can devote themselves entirely to coronavirus patients.

What I still haven't heard is who is going to staff the ships medically. In wartime, the Mercy would be staffed from the Naval Hospital San Diego medical staff, leaving that giant land hospital almost empty. During the Iraq invasion, the shoreside Naval Hospital was backfilled with reserve medical staff but that would pull reserve doctors and nurses from their civilian jobs . . . probably not a good idea right now.

Similarly, the USNS Comfort is staffed in wartime by medical professionals from the Naval Hospital Portsmouth who could be backfilled by the reserves although right now I can't imagine that happening.

Most middle class households will remain unaffected, or very minorly. That is truth. And most families live to their means and hardly anybody has an emergency fund, let alone anything in savings. The average American is in a crapload of debt. They’ll pause their student loans for 6 months, pay debt with that, and use the $2400-3400 to buy shit they don’t need and go out to eat or take vacations that Instagram and Denmark tell them they deserve. Do you even live in this country, because it sounds like we’re in different Americas.

Many middle class households will be affected...because of the very scenario you depicted. The middle class is up its eyes in student and consumer debt, cars and a house they really can't afford and all it takes is major economic hiccup to turn their lives upside down. They're lucky if they can borrow against a retirement account to ride this out otherwise they are fucked because this stimulus is barely enough to coverage a mortgage payment.

"The girls in cooking now have an opportunity to use a home laboratory, the kitchen, for the preparation of meals, the dining room for the serving of meals, and the home magazines as reference books... A written statement from the home keeper as to number of meals prepared and served will be required... The girls in sewing and millinery will bring to the school the product of their work in remodeling hats, gowns and coats, either to be donated to the Red Cross or to be given as conservation garments... "







I miss the the good olde tyme dayswhen women used to know how to cook .
or even know how to sow a button back on anymore?
Are there anymore home economic classes anymore?

I see how that pleases you so.




Morbid. Its like your rooting for the virus. At least I know what team you are on. The anti orange team.

Yep and I'm not asking for any for myself or family. I'm gainfully employed and likely most of us here wouldn't even qualify based upon our income.

But for others I am sure it will come in handy.

New York bans nonessential construction amid coronavirus pandemic

https://ny.curbed.com/2020/3/27/2119...cuomo-covid-19

How the hell did it take them this long to finally ban non-essential construction? Most other states did this almost a week ago. Yeah let's keep construction of these empty billionaire piggy bank towers going! It's not like NYC is the epicenter of the crisis or anything.

What are you talking about? I was being sarcastic.

Because we all knew this would happen as more testing became available in the US, right?

What are you talking about? So the government should just send checks to the employed middle class all the time because they can't balance their books?

Give it a week. In a month, it will be in every corner of the U.S.