Coronavirus

[League Circles]

What happens to people with massive debt if they can’t work due to Coronavirus?

The lenders are **** out of luck

[Jcool0]

What happens to people with massive debt if they can’t work due to Coronavirus?

[wolffy]

You can stop most business now or all business in two months. That's basically the choice. People think a little discomfort is bad when the curve is relatively flat have no idea what's coming it exponential growth hits.

#flattenthecurve. Now is not the time to play tough guy. You're only hurting your fellow Americans long term.

Agreed, I've been preaching this all week. Be proactive!

[madvillian]

What happens to people with massive debt if they can’t work due to Coronavirus?

The lenders are **** out of luck

I literally just got a call about medical debt. I laughed and hung up the phone. Is what it is man. I'm barely done paying down student loans. I sure as **** can't pay off my emergency medical debt right now.

Maybe if we had **** universal healthcare I wouldn't have been **** when I got hurt in between jobs in my late 20s.

[Dieselbound&Down]

I feel my life slipping away, 20 seconds at a clip, staring at the man in the mirror over and over again each day.

[FriedRise]

Remember when GarPax, Jim Boylen, and Coby's turnovers were the hot button issues? Good times.

[HomoSapien]

My wife's side has planned this family trip where we're all going to England, Jordan, Israel, and Qatar. Crazy trip, was really excited to go about it, but now I seem to be the only one who thinks this is a bad idea, which I'm finding very stressful. It'd be one thing if it was just my wife and I, but it's hard with my in-laws and no one else seems to be very informed about what's going on. I'm not even that worried about getting the virus, I'm just worried about getting stranded somewhere other than home.

Well, update to this. My wife and I have finally decided to cancel our entire trip. It took until yesterday for my wife to finally come to terms with how bad this situation is. Still some members of her family are hellbent to go (although the Israel portion is definitely out due to the mandatory two-week quarantine). Her grandparents are 93 and 87, and the people who live and care for them are planning on traveling. Just seems completely unbelievable to me that they would risk exposing them to this by traveling and then coming home to them.

[ChiCitySPORTS#1]

Updating my previous post: It has started affecting life/behavior. Cancled a trip to a friends wedding this weekend. WFH 100% now, and no longer going to the gym. Sucks.

[ChiCitySPORTS#1]

America is not prepared for it like China is.

Leadership comes from the top.

[DuckIII]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

[dougthonus]

Contraction would put tremendous downward pressure on prices via deflation and people would diversify their labor drastically (back to more typical historical levels where clearly well less than 50% of labor was traded vs what we have now which maybe approaches 80-90%). For virtually all of human history we only traded our labor very selectively, now we have all leveraged ourselves into trading virtually all of it. That creates excessive dependencies on the fragility of markets that are larger than we are adapted to deal with, and destabilizes civilization as a result.

From a practical perspective, I don't see how that is remotely possible or feasible and seems like it would radically reduce quality of life to a point well below what it will be even in this "non stable" environment.

[dougthonus]

My wife's side has planned this family trip where we're all going to England, Jordan, Israel, and Qatar. Crazy trip, was really excited to go about it, but now I seem to be the only one who thinks this is a bad idea, which I'm finding very stressful. It'd be one thing if it was just my wife and I, but it's hard with my in-laws and no one else seems to be very informed about what's going on. I'm not even that worried about getting the virus, I'm just worried about getting stranded somewhere other than home.

Well, update to this. My wife and I have finally decided to cancel our entire trip. It took until yesterday for my wife to finally come to terms with how bad this situation is. Still some members of her family are hellbent to go (although the Israel portion is definitely out due to the mandatory two-week quarantine). Her grandparents are 93 and 87, and the people who live and care for them are planning on traveling. Just seems completely unbelievable to me that they would risk exposing them to this by traveling and then coming home to them.

We had booked a trip to Cancun in April and canceled it. Not so much for fear of getting sick in Cancun but just the though that we might end up quarantined in another country if they shut down airports.

[Dieselbound&Down]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

The coffee filter aisle was barren also. People really are weird.

If the apocalypse hits, I'm camping on your property.

[moorhosj]

Think about it in simple terms. You have 10 guys with $1/ea and 10 loaves of bread. If you suddenly give those 10 guys an extra $1, so they have $2/each, but all they can do is still buy the 10 loaves of bread, then the price of bread is going to go up.

Why stop there, what about the free market? The price of bread going up would induce other bread makers to enter the market and capture the margin. Assuming the costs of making bread don't increase 100%, the price shouldn't either. If the price of bread only rises to $1.50, everyone is still better off than before.

[rapstarter]

I'm stocking up on meal replacement powder just in case.

[dumbell78]

My wife's side has planned this family trip where we're all going to England, Jordan, Israel, and Qatar. Crazy trip, was really excited to go about it, but now I seem to be the only one who thinks this is a bad idea, which I'm finding very stressful. It'd be one thing if it was just my wife and I, but it's hard with my in-laws and no one else seems to be very informed about what's going on. I'm not even that worried about getting the virus, I'm just worried about getting stranded somewhere other than home.

Well, update to this. My wife and I have finally decided to cancel our entire trip. It took until yesterday for my wife to finally come to terms with how bad this situation is. Still some members of her family are hellbent to go (although the Israel portion is definitely out due to the mandatory two-week quarantine). Her grandparents are 93 and 87, and the people who live and care for them are planning on traveling. Just seems completely unbelievable to me that they would risk exposing them to this by traveling and then coming home to them.

I'm sorry but the ones that are going are just being foolish. I'm not taking my 5 yr old daughter to swim classes tomorrow morning just as a precaution. Its a indoor public pool area with private swimming instructors, I'm avoiding it. Flying around the world is a major HELL NO.

[kulaz3000]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

So it's not just Sydney? That's been the case here for about 2 weeks now. I haven't seen a roll of toilet paper at my local supermarket for a long time, or pasta, or simple drugs for that matter.

It's a bizarre time in Sydney, we were recently hit with massive bush fires, then there were massive down pours with floods, now there is this.

[TallDude]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

So it's not just Sydney? That's been the case here for about 2 weeks now. I haven't seen a roll of toilet paper at my local supermarket for a long time, or pasta, or simple drugs for that matter.

It's a bizarre time in Sydney, we were recently hit with massive bush fires, then there were massive down pours with floods, now there is this.

Worst scase scenario for Usa is 150million people get virus. It means that no sports for this year. And economy is going down. Best scenario was 75-100million get virus. In Finland today was the day when we almost double our stats. 65 up to 109. Of course real number is much higher. Still pretty good compare to Norway and Sweden. I think friday we have 200-300 cases. Week or two 10000+ something. They will close the schools here latest after weekend.

[step]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

So it's not just Sydney? That's been the case here for about 2 weeks now. I haven't seen a roll of toilet paper at my local supermarket for a long time, or pasta, or simple drugs for that matter.

It's a bizarre time in Sydney, we were recently hit with massive bush fires, then there were massive down pours with floods, now there is this.

Basically the entire east coast is in panic mode. I also don't get the toilet paper thing... I'm waiting for the families with little kids to go after all the frozen food, since barely any kid I know eats anything other than chicken nuggets, fish fingers, and chips. Or they might be well stocked already? No idea. My local Aldi and Coles have been surprisingly hardcore in enacting their item limits.

My response to people was you know there are delivery options for Coles and Woolies... turns out others have caught on. Turnaround times are supposedly over a week to a fortnight now depending on locations.

[dumbell78]

I live in a rural community of 6,000 nowhere near any urban area. I stopped at Walmart today to pick up some tea, and saw someone I knew pushing a cart down the aisle. I made a joke asking her why she didn’t have any toilet paper, and she laughed and said there isn’t any. I also laughed. Then I walked past that aisle and not only was there absolutely no toilet paper, but there were only about 10 rolls of paper towels.

The rest of the store, including all non-perishable food, was completely stocked. People are weird.

So it's not just Sydney? That's been the case here for about 2 weeks now. I haven't seen a roll of toilet paper at my local supermarket for a long time, or pasta, or simple drugs for that matter.

It's a bizarre time in Sydney, we were recently hit with massive bush fires, then there were massive down pours with floods, now there is this.

Dude I was at the Costco in Casula yesterday and they ran out of toilet paper. That's unheard of for Costco to run out. Ppl fighting in line at the checkout, its just stupid.