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You and @mrflynn03 peaked my curiosity and I found article about India. It raises more questions than it answers but still pretty interesting. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/28/india/india-coronavirus-outbreak-explained-intl-hnk/index.html

Not accusing you of saying that is was bioengineered, but I’ve heard many people suspect that and i was referencing the claim from Shi that COVID19 is some sort of hybrid virus or mutation. Which is also highly improbable, again, I’ll direct you to the podcast for more info on that. I guess I believe the most plausible explanation until I’m proven otherwise, which is: it was transferred to humans from animals. Just like SARS, Ebola, H1N1, and most other new/dangerous viruses. Not saying it’s not impossible that a lab somehow got a hold of the virus, was studying it and the let it slip out, but as you said nobody knows. Anything’s possible, I just find the former much more likely because that’s how viruses have historically started.

Far from common knowledge. And the claim that that it was bioengineered is just not true, they can tell this from the RNA. Here's a podcast with 98 different citations that explains why. An interesting listen: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/dvheexn/coronavirus-was-it-made-in-a-lab?utm_source=gimletWebsite&utm_medium=copyShare&utm_campaign=gimletWebsite

The whole GT album is crazy! I love Tame. It’s weird you bring that up because I had ‘Cause I’m A Man’ in my head all day. Not sure how I feel about their new album, but that song ‘On Track’ is so awesome, especially loud and in the car with it fading to various speakers. Kevin Parker’s production is one of a kind. Watch this lady...... haha

Another good interview on The Daily; this time about testing. Both diagnostic and antibody testing.... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736#episodeGuid=gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-locator%2FV0%2F3sNgr8C9Qk9jqGIUS9jLtYnD07Qik8CDbDcnvGB06bM Interesting for me to learn that because the CDC was heavily criticized for being too conservative with regulations in regards to not allowing private labs and universities to develop diagnostic tests back in February; they went in a complete different direction with the antibodies tests. They allowed private labs to administer to the public and regulate themselves without any CDC certification in hopes of speeding things up. Problem was that only 3 of the 15 tests were reliable and it created confusion. Some tests had an error rate of 15% for false positives, which is stupidly high.

I'm thinking 'moving the goalposts' was the plan all along. It's been a matter of stalling until they learn more about the virus: where it's most prevalent, how doctors are treating it/what the best practices are, what underlying health issues are most at risk, why it affects people differently, etc. They were also stalling to make sure hospitals could get the equipment they need. I'm not saying they'll learn everything in the next month, but every bit of information they can gather now allows them to make more informed policy decisions in the future, which can save lives. And if you think about it, there's a lot of info that we know now that we didn't know just a week ago. I mean, doctors are finding out that ventilators are now harming some people. At first masks were bad...now they're good. etc. Every week we wait gives us a clearer picture, but the question is: how clear of a picture is needed before we re-open? That answer is different in every state.

I’m tired of getting wrapped up in the internet, social media and cable news. It’s very interesting that ‘side 1’ is painting ‘side 2’ as wanting to open up immediately without restrictions. Side 2 apparently doesn’t care about people dying and is in denial. Side 2 is painting ‘side 1’ as wanting to quarantine until this whole thing is over. Side 1 apparently doesn’t care about the economy and wants to live off the government. There may be people with more extreme views on side 1 who have very weakened immune systems and are scared of getting sick, or on side 2 who are living paycheck to paycheck and desperately need to work to put food on the table. I think it’s important to respect each of these realities and consider it. BUT we also need to remember that the majority of us have an opinion that lies somewhere in the middle. The policies set in the future will also most likely be somewhere in the middle. The gray area is VAST on the issue of moving forward from COVID19. However, this culture of ‘owning’ the enemy with sick burns and stupid memes during a pandemic is absolutely shameful. There’s a fine line between being critical of others’ views and completely dismissive because it pushes people further into their corners. I find this especially troubling, because now more than ever, whatever is decided by states or on the federal level will only be successful if a majority of us respect it. We can and should be critical (note: not dismissive) of whatever those policies may be without fear of giving up our liberties, but let’s at least respect them, try to make it work and continue to learn from and adapt these policies - whether you are in Georgia, whether you are in Michigan, or somewhere in between. There are no easy decisions right now, especially because we are fighting a virus we know so little about. We are truly in this together, especially in a time when one person’s dismissiveness can effect another’s way of life or their actual life. ...just needed to get that off my chest.

I took the opposite path you did. I started off with acoustic because I could never afford the gear in HS and College. And about 8 years ago I switched to electric, which was like a completely new instrument...especially because I grew up on playing Dave Matthews which made me sound really sloppy on electric. Ever since I’ve been chasing that Jimi/SRV sound. Strat with the neck and middle pick up going through a blues deluxe. I hear what you say about Strats, but I love them and my shoulders aren’t strong enough to have Les Paul hanging on them for 2 hours. Haha. I do have an Epiphone dot too though. Hotel California may be my favorite solo. I never really appreciated it until I learned how to play it....Felder just covers so much in it. I’m going to go back and listen to Walk This Way right now.

Sorry to hear that. You, like me and many others are stuck in limbo. I have a distributorship for branded merchandise and the sales from most of my customers are event driven. No events means no orders, so this uncertainty is pretty scary. I remarkably had a pretty good month this past April, but everything I put through is not sustainable as a future revenue source. Luckily we secured a PPP loan to hold us over through the summer, but it looks like it's going to be a rough ride. Luckily, I don't have much overhead. My car lease (business expense) is up in May and I'll hold off on getting a new car because I haven't driven anywhere in a month. Best not to take continue a monthly expense if I don't have to. My wife is also on limited hours, but has still been able to get around 30 hours the past 3 weeks. Overall, I guess the only plan right now is don't spend money, unless its on the essentials like groceries....and alcohol. Best of luck to you @BGleas .

This is some random Japanese dude on YouTube. I'm pulling this out of my butt, but I can't imagine there are more than 20 people in the world who could do that. He is playing the beat, bass line, chords and melody all at the same time with just two hands. I've seen people do 2 of the 4 at the same time, but all 4? Just ridiculous. For anybody who liked that, he has his own youtube channel....so you can go down that wormhole. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYlXBcX43XtXOxzzKmps2w

Just wanted to say how much I Love the Last Dance and all the memories it brings back. Funny, that I odn't remember much when I was 8, but I hated the Pistons so much that I'd yell at the TV because they were so dirty. Also, my entire extended family lived in Michigan and would wear those stupid championship shirts with the cartoon big head drawings and rub it in. I ultimately got the last laugh though.

If you can't tell from my user photo I love guitar. Been playing for 25 years. I can get along, but definitely am no prodigy. Definitely have a long list of favorite guitarists, but IMO, you always have to separate into 2 categories: based on skill and based on creativity. This doesn't mean the creative ones aren't 'skilled' or the skilled ones aren't 'creative'. Most of my favorites are the creative ones; the ones who write melodic solos that are remembered - ones that are printed on you brain and you could whistle from memory. That said, my favorites are Slash, David Gilmour, Don Felder, Jimi, etc. But every now and then I'll come across skill like in the video below that makes me want to give up and smash all my guitars.

Glad you liked it, but just realizing now that I inserted the wrong quote. I meant to reply to @Lostin76 . Haha.

Man, I haven’t had a Long Island since I was at Killroys Sports 20 years ago. I should try a ‘real’ one.

Give this a try. Jazzy at times. Psychedelic at times.

OK....I’m drinking and bored on this rainy day. How about a cocktail thread? You can spare us the responses “I only drink beer” or “straight bourbon”. I like both, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes a finely crafted cocktail hits the spot. My cocktail needs an introduction. My wife took me on a surprise trip to Austin in May last year. It happened to be Paloma season, aka grapefruit season. I may have had the best Paloma and mixed drink of my life down there and I’ve been trying to replicate it ever since. I just made a pretty darn good one with some common household ingredients. This is my Jimmy rigged Peppered Paloma with some Kirkland Silver Tequila (Best value ever) 2 parts tequila .5 parts triple sec 2 parts margarita mix 1 part Simply Grapefruit juice 2 fresh jalapeño coins

I’m not sure where to start. Asking me what my favorite band is like asking Shawn Kemp who his favorite child is. I grew up in the 90s, but love so many things that came out before that. I’ll listen to anything except that pop country stuff. I like a lot of current music and believe there’s a misconception that there isn’t good music out there any more. There is a ton of great music, it’s just harder to find because there’s so many outlets. Some of my favorite bands/artists of the last decade: The War on Drugs - it’s like Springsteen meets Pink Floyd ethereal-ness Father John Misty - Best lyricist out there right now, but the lyrics lyrics are oozed in sarcasm. Folky vibe (used to be the drummer in Fleet Foxes) Jason Isbell - 2nd best lyricist out there right now. Americana country vibe. If you want to cry, listen to ‘Elephant’. My Morning Jacket - My favorite live band. Dig their earlier stuff more though. Whitney - 70s groove vibe. The guitarist is just insanely good - so clean and precise. Khrungbin - Ambeint guitar music. The trio is just ridiculous. Great for background music that has a Latin feel; I’m obsessed with his guitar tone right now, it’s like a reverb drenched surf tone, but rich instead of twangy. White Denim - Guitar rock at it’s finest . White Reeper - If you just want some 70’s era riff driven rock. Lord Huron - Not quite sure how to explain their sound because it’s pretty unique. I’m forgetting so many others, but those are probably my most played. OH - best album ever is Girl Talk - All Day. I’m pretty sure everybody I’ve introduced this to became obsessed; it’s like a journey through the history of rock, rap and pop. *free DL on illegalart.net

Agree. I think it’s only a matter of time and it didn’t happen sooner because hospitals needed to secure inventory before they started to compete with the public. I personally don’t mind wearing one. I think we just need to remember it’s not necessarily for your protection, it’s for others’ protection. I don’t want asymptomatic people breathing on the apples I pick out at the store.

Great for me because I had an ablation postponed. Would rather not have to worry about arrhythmia with this COVID floating around. Also good for my wife who is a PT and will now get all those post-op patients back.

I've committed myself to consistent exercise, eating healthy and less alcohol. It's still happening. ....but damn that alcohol is slowly creeping back in. I too like both, but i'm #teammexico

I'm at a stage in my social distancing that I'm actually confusing/intermingling the plotlines of the many shows I'm watching. Lately I've been confusing Narcos Mexico with Ozark 3 with Better Call Sal. Is my problem that i watch too much tv or that I have some weird fascination with Mexican drug cartels right now?

China has slowly been tightening their grasp on the balls of other countries for the last 30-40 years like a slow moving train. We consumers like our crap cheap and China filled that void. Although there've been efforts like the TPP or other policies to diversify our supply and cut China out, this ultimately would've taken a Herculean task to unwind.....or a crisis. Unfortunately, we're getting the latter. What I'd give to see 5 years into the future to see what global changes this pandemic will ultimately spur.

Just revisiting the China convo from a couple of pages back. I'm a distributor for promotional merchandise. So much of the stuff I get is from China and a lot of my suppliers are converting their factories over to manufacture PPE, specifically facemasks. I've never sold a face mask in my life up until 2 weeks ago and that's all I'm sourcing and ordering now. 3M and domestic suppliers for facemasks are directing their supplies directly to hospitals so the secondary market has been pushed to China. The secondary market is a mix of Amazon orders, companies trying to secure masks for their essential employees, companies trying to secure masks for the non-essential employees who will soon be returning to work, etc. It's like the Wild West out there: production times, inventory levels, and prices are changing at the drop of the hat. The main problem right now is that because of the high demands, everything is just sitting on planes or waiting to get on planes. If you have ordered a facemask on Amazon and keep getting updates that your order is delayed another week...this is why. The eye opening thing for many is that we are too heavily relying on China in a time of emergency for a crisis they more or less created. They are obviously too interwoven into our supply chain and word on the street is that a huge company in my industry (possibly the biggest) is already reevaluating their their relationship with China and have begun looking at other countries to fulfill their production needs. I'm hoping other companies follow suit. While China is sitting pretty right now, I think the long term backlash will be devastating for them. @milehiiu also already brought up the fact that they produce so many of our pharmaceuticals. All I can think about now, is what will happen from a production/distribution standpoint when a vaccine is created and needs to be sent to the entire world? I hope planning has already begun for this scenario so we don't have to rely on China as much.

Hope that’s the case. He did say he’s heard it could be as high as 10% but doesn’t think that estimation is accurate. I think we may be mixing infection rate and severity of symptoms. I think people’s immune systems are strong in warmer climates because they naturally get more vitamin D from the sun. So, while they may be infected, they’re able to fight it off better? I’m completely talking out of my a**, just a theory - I’m definitely no expert. My summarization doesn’t do justice. I still do recommend listening; it’s only 15-20 minutes.

-He goes in to the obvious, flattening the curve means slowing the spread. Just because we have a downturn is cases doesn't mean that the virus is gone. We are most likely going to be going through intermittent, controllable waves of social distancing for a while -Most accurate estimates say that 3% of the population has had it. Best case scenario without vaccine, if the infected develop and sustain immunities, the virus wouldn't die out until we reach 70% infected because the virus simply will have a hard time finding a host without antibodies at that point. -The record for bringing a vaccine to market was for the mumps - and that took 4 years. -Despite the hopeful articles being posted, there is zero reliable research that shows it going away (or into hibernation) in the summer. If this was the case it wouldn't be spreading it's way through countries with warm climates now. -Even if we can bring a vaccination to market quickly there's going to be a huge hurdle in getting it manufactured and distributed to the entire world. Even if the US gets first dibs, we'd need 300 million vaccines. The largest amount of vaccine produced in a year is 8 million (for comparison's sake). -If above holds true, he talks about a new reality where people with antibodies are more valuable because they can't get infected. They're already in high demand so we can analyze their blood. But they can also help out in ICU's without fear of getting infected, for example. Plus they'll be able to go back to work and lead a normal like quicker than others. Because of this he speculates about people getting infected on purpose like we did when we were young, having "chicken pox parties".