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  2. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    1 hour ago, milehiiu said:

    Mrs. mile went to Costco for one of her medications. She decided to have a look around.   Normally they have an ample supply of steaks.  There were no frozen chickens. And just a few rotisserie chickens.  She was not planning on buying one. But by the time she came back from the back of the store.... those cooked chickens were gone. And she did not see anyone at the time cutting up meat.  She can't recall if there were hotdogs or not. No meat of any kind.

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    Another thing.  I think it fits in this thread.  Don't want to start a new thread for this.

    And I hope no one gets upset about what I am about to say.  This is the National Day of Prayer. If there was ever a time our nation needed this, IMHO, it is now. Yet. There is only one cable news network, carrying the ceremony in Washington D.C.  I just find that wrong.  The prayers and songs, meant a lot to me at this time.

     

     

    My #1 prayer was answered, today! 

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  3. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    These people who think you can just load up a semi load of 1,400# steers and drop them off at a soup kitchen, just boggle my mind! I remember when they claimed that the internet and cable news were going to make people smarter... 

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  4. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    the stamping plant where I did my apprenticeship had presses from 8 to 400 tons, and a lot of assembly equipment. As labor became more expensive, a lot of the older, smaller presses got sold off, along with the manually operated assembly equipment. By the time that plant got shut down in 2009 most of the assembly equipment was robot cells, and the presses ranged from 400 to 2,000 tons.

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  6. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    1 hour ago, Drroogh said:

    Well Crap, that's a new twist! Early retirement!

    Not to be unexpected though! We are going to reopen the plant Monday albeit with guidelines and even physical barriers to keep people separate! Wish us all luck, but this afternoon being in that age group I received an email about early retirement!

    Yesterday as I was leaving the plant I joined a conversation with a handful of employees including our President. Our company can financially survive, we have no debt! But this last month as you can expect has been a disaster! Further since our primary customers are resteraunt s, school cafeterias and such our future business is not good in the short run/mid term run.

    That being said, the particular problem I fall in has been 40 years in the making, back in the 80's and 90's when corporations sold their souls to ASIA, domestic tooling went into a death spiral! We now have inadequate tool build resources in America, companies no longer exist and the once lucrative trade of tool maker is a dying breed! Along with tooling engineers like me. Nobody is irreplaceable, but if I take early retirement, let's just say this companies latest and greatest product design overhaul goes indefinitely on hold. Young engineers and trades people shun Tool Making, it is really a sad state, because if you don't have tooling you don't build product!

    Sorry for the 40 year old festering rant, I already let my boss know I have his back and I'm not retiring unless forced to.

    How close are you to retirement? 

  9. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    29 minutes ago, milehiiu said:

    From my things I don't understand file.  Why ? Why are farmers plowing down their crops ? If they are not making money.  Why not just give their crops to local food banks ?

    California farmer plows under lettuce after coronavirus shutters restaurant market - Reuters

    When farmers plow under crops, the tragedy of COVID-19 becomes all the more vivid - Chicago Sun-Times

     

    Uh, you DO realize that food is not produced in the back room of the grocery store, right? 

  11. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    2 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said:

    There is definitely alot of people out for no reason. I see it here in southern Indiana too. But if people shopped smart they would make a list and get it all at once.  But people aren't too smart. I was well stocked before this started so havent went out much other than work. 

    You're spot on, and that's why I haven't gone ballistic about the new measures michigan has enacted. They don't make sense to me, but maybe the governor felt she needed to make a point to people who were going out to much. Hopefully they can ease the restrictions, soon. 

  12. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    5 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said:

    She is doing some things that make absolutely no sense though. Like cant buy garden seeds? How does that help. 

    I live two miles from Michigan, and do most of my shopping, there, and to me, it makes no sense. I've been laid off almost a month, and have been to a store about four times since. This is in a town of about, 8000 people, and even there, it's pretty easy to tell that there a lot of people going out needlessly. Probably much worse in places like Detroit, etc. 

  13. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    40 minutes ago, Lostin76 said:

    Mile, I know the rules. And as a liberal a**hole living in Brooklyn, I try to be especially aware of them. But, I will admit this topic is tough for me. I shouldn't have went there with the toddler and the diaper.

    You're right, and the poster who called the Michigan governor an idiot should not have posted that either. As little people, we have no idea what pressures these elected officials are facing. I'm glad to not be walking in their shoes. 

    Stay safe. 

  14. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

    Posted · Edited by Muckraker
    Skipped a word

    8 minutes ago, Lostin76 said:

    You know I thought about that as I was typing, but then I noticed that it was okay for people to call governors idiots further upthread. Is the toddler in the White House sacred and governors are okay to be labeled as idiots? Is only one of those political?

    And maybe you would be more comfortable in a society where people can't speak their minds?

     

    I had to go back to find what you were referring to, but I agree that the rules of this site should be enforced equally. They are website rules. We agree to abide by them in order to participate. Has nothing to do with freedom of speech. 

  15. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    3 minutes ago, Lostin76 said:

    The number of auto-related fatalities was for a year. If we extrapolate the roughly 1 month US death toll of 25K from COVID-19 to a yearly number then we are looking at 300K deaths per year. Is that acceptable? If we stopped social distancing, then what would the monthly death toll be? What would it be for a year? Probably in the millions.

    And his "regulatory mechanisms" is equal to social distancing measures.

    I'm kind of fed up with investors telling us what we should be doing. I don't need someone from Wall Street telling me how to survive a pandemic. They only care about making money off of us.

    That said, we have some local businesses that are doing an amazing job by staying open AND being safe. It can be done. That takes cooperation from them and from consumers.

    And finally, he's asking for cooperation from government - that would be awesome, but I'm not hopeful. We have some governors stepping up and some being idiots. And then we have a toddler in the White House who can't even manage his diaper change without throwing a fit about someone else who must have placed the poop in his diaper.

     

    Looks like somebody needs to feel the ban hammer! 

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  16. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    37 minutes ago, rico said:

    Can't speak for welfare but a lot of people on SS still work and file taxes, my Father being one of them at the young age of 80.

    And a large chunk of the stock market losses have directly effected 401k's and retirement plans. 

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  18. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    22 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

    One positive I just read about this quarantine. Yosemite and other national parks are being taken over again by animals. LA Times (pay article) said Bear population has quadrupled. Silver lining I guess. 

    Well, there's a good example of the overall disinformation situation. It is impossible for the population of a large mammal like bears to quadruple in 2 or 3 months. Bears have a gestation period similar to humans. 

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  23. Coronavirus

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    50 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

    Not sure how reliable this projection is, but it's interesting to look at.  

    In summary

    • The need for hospital beds peaks on April 15th and tails off to manageable numbers by June 1st
    • The daily death rate peaks on April 15th and tails off to just 11 on July 1st.
    • Total deaths tops 82,000

    https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

    I'm sure those projections are as valid as any, but no one knows what this virus is going to do. The numbers could be high, low, or right on. A lot depends on how we, as a population deal with the situation. 

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