Corona Virus Daily Thread #25

[Mariner]

Yesterday's thread here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827099/posts?page=1

[DEPcom]

“didn’t get much response there, either”

Some of the responses were accounts created on the same day.

Wonder if they trace the IP address back for those new account, they would find China IP addresses.

[scouter]

I’m still interested in your answers to my other questions. Not in an argumentative way, but genuinely interested to see if I’m misinterpreting something or otherwise not using good logic.

My daughter is on the front line, too, as a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit, and as a transport nurse who goes to other hospitals to pick patients up to bring them to our hospital. I myself am on the second line, so to speak, in the same hospital, working.on nothing else for the past several weeks, preparing our electronic medical record system to handle all the special circumstances this virus is presenting. Along with over one hundred others who are also working on the EMR. My point is that all this massive preparation is being done by people who really do know what they’re doing.

Preparation is not panic. I have not seen panic on this thread. I’ve seen sharing of knowledge, questions and answers, creativity. I’ve seen people who have underlying conditions worry about getting a virus that by all accounts could kill them or someone they love take rational steps to prevent that.

I don’t think that’s panic. I think it’s prudence.

[BobL]

Thanks Met. I got a reasonable amount of parts and have access to a reasonable number of cars, some old, some almost new, and some in between (some belong to our kids). All are running at this point (and have full fuel). I don’t think any of us will be putting too many miles on, so I don’t expect too many breakdowns.

The wife and I did debate buying a new car at the outset of this nightmare, but we couldn’t agree on a style. She wanted an SUV, while I wanted something that didn’t advertise what I was carrying. On top of that was the cost, as it would have nearly doubled our overall prepping dollars.

Now, of course, no way, due to the social interaction involved - but it will also be a long time, 5 years minimum, probably over 10 years, before the quality of new cars will be able to match what we had going into this - due to all the supply line hits for the manufactures.

[BobL]

Thanks Blue - same in Taiwan, and that’s the part that still isn’t being understood in the West, or priced-into the market. Absent widespread deployment of a vaccine, the recovery from this mess will be VERY SLOW, in fits and starts. It won’t be over in 2 weeks, not 2 months, and quite possibly not in 2 years.

[cgbg]

My heart sinks as I hear more and more disgusting “f the elderly, they’re going to die anyway” talk.

This is the month the mask came off, and it was straight out of a horror movie.

I have always had a pessimistic view of human nature--that most folks were closer to apes than angels, particularly under stress--but this is even worse than I thought.

The young people needed to be scared straight, with graphic images of young people in bio suits tubed up to ventilators--unfortunately it is the only language some of them understand.

[Pollard]

Good brand names delivered to your door for about the same price as chain store brands. http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/racatalog.php

Search the web for a 5% off discount code, places like retailmenot. RockAuto sends discount codes out in emails and tells you to feel free to share them.

Standard Ignition Products, Raybestos Brake components, Timken Bearings, National Seals and other old names. Most are made in China now but at least the companies have decades of experience in their specialty. Chain store house brands are just generic made in China by someone and designed by someone. Who knows who.

I got a heater core for my neighbor. $90 at local chain, $45 at rockauto. Same with clutch master/slave cylinders for somewhat late model Jeep CJ series.

Coupon code goes into “How did you hear about us” box during checkout.

[Varsity Flight]

Birx starting to talk of focus hot spot locations this morning NBC. Sounded like preparations to relax economic side.

[cgbg]

Singapore has re-introduced locked down after reports of a second wave of #coronavirus.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1242415380045447168

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[Varsity Flight]

**** Ohio *****

Northern Ohio steel manufacturer shutting down due to lack of demand. 250 jobs.

[Pollard]

[metmom]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Panic is reacting because you haven’t planned ahead, hence empty shelves of TP, pasta, meat, milk, eggs, runs on freezers, etc.

Prepping and planning keeps the supply lines going actually would boost the economy as more stuff is being bought.

Panic creates shortages and more panic.

[cgbg]

There ya go...!

This is not a time to be subtle...

[metmom]

Ours are fairly new.

We bought Toyotas after my daughter bought a used one and it lived another 11 years.

They have been terrific cars and should be good for a long time yet.

It’s ridiculous that car dealers have been shuttered. People need new cars and there are many dealers who have them sitting on their lots, getting lot rot.

[BobL]

“Birx starting to talk of focus hot spot locations this morning NBC. Sounded like preparations to relax economic side.”

They’re dreaming, it’s like the rest of the world doesn’t exist and we have some ‘magic ideas’ that will work here, even though they’ve failed in every other country when attempted.

...and the end result will be a much, much, tougher form of lockdown, with full-up martial law not out of the question as far as I can see.

[metmom]

We have used Rock Auto for a long time.

But that’s good info for others on the board so it’s good that you posted it.

Thanks.

[BobL]

We’ve also had good luck with Rock Auto, although I’d expect their inventory (and pretty much everyone else’s) to slowly decline over the months, as it will be years (at best) before China gets back in business manufacturing lower-priority items for the world.

[cgbg]

Bob:

I am predicting that after the restart there will be some spectacular “dying on the street in public” scenes that will freak out folks...

Then the hard stop.

[BobL]

“Bob: I am predicting that after the restart there will be some spectacular “dying on the street in public” scenes that will freak out folks...Then the hard stop.”

Yep, we’re still in the second inning here. Third inning will be a completely collapsed health care system - due to trying to get the economy moving, with the 4th inning (finally) being the hard-stop - probably in a month, once we see the result of trying to have it both ways.

[Pollard]

I don’t even bother with the local parts stores anymore unless time is of the essence. Here in MO, people still aren’t that computer literate, even the ones that use them for a living like the parts guys. I have to drive 25 miles, one way and wait for someone to figure out how to find the part in the computer and then try to find it on the shelf. Got tired of it. I always feel like pushing them out of the way and looking it up myself. Back in FL, autozone would leave one computer facing out and I would use that. By the time a counterperson walked up, I would just point at the part on the screen and they would go get it. Always had a parts store within 5 miles of me in Ctrl FL.

[cgbg]

I have been a “crazy prepper” since Y2K and my wife always thought it was an endearing eccentricity—until she walked into a Walmart and saw an empty paper goods aisle.

I had to remind her that we have enough paper goods for the zombie apocalypse, and that she could relax...

She is a new convert, and they are the most fanatical kind. ;-)