The "virus" What are your thoughts

Gofirstclass said:
This tidbit is a bit late for today's business but it might come in handy Monday....,

A neighbor of ours has a son who has a friend who works in DC. The friend called him yesterday and gave him what he said was an important piece of advice:
Get your hands on some cash and hang onto it just in case.

No reason given and I'm not trying to start a run on the banks.
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Who uses cash? Is the electricity catching the virus?

C’mon maan. Can we stop w the drama?

This will be over soon enough. Always is. Things will normalize again just like w all the previous outbreaks dating back to the Silk Road trade route in late 1800’s.

We have a few snowflakes on this thread, one is a clam named Susan. :D
 
El Capitan said:
Who uses cash? Is the electricity catching the virus?

C’mon maan. Can we stop w the drama?

This will be over soon enough. Always is. Things will normalize again just like w all the previous outbreaks dating back to the Silk Road trade route in late 1800’s.

We have a few snowflakes on this thread, one is a clam named Susan. :D
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In south Louisiana we regularly have infrastructure damaging natural disasters. As such, astute folks keep a few weeks of cash on hand for good measure. However, in this case, this crisis is not causing infrastructure damage. The power and communication grid will remain intact. Not sure how having any more than a normal stash of cash on hand would help??? (If there is nothing to buy in the store, cash won’t help.)
 
Unless a “black market” for stuff becomes the only way to get needed items... they won’t take credit cards.
 
Steve S said:
Unless a “black market” for stuff becomes the only way to get needed items... they won’t take credit cards.
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That is what the normal amount of emergency cash is for. After that....that is what the guns and ammo are for :)
 
Watching CBS this morning these are the numbers I seen.
20000 cases
269 deaths
What I take from that is 1.345% mortality rate.
If this is remotely close I think we are doing a good job in a bad situation.
Anyone else seen any numbers?
 
BEH, damn good question.

Pure panic I guess. Folks out of work and in need of money. So I guess the fear of home invasions and such have folks concerned. I'm not doing anything different then I have been doing in the past, when it comes to my firearms.
 
Having some cash on hand always helps.. We got a bid on an electrical installation in the house and it seemed to be well on the high side of what I expected. I later contacted one of the company's workers and asked him what he would charge to do the job for cash. No receipt, no record.

20% of what the company's bid was for.

Works for me.
 
Steve S said:
Unless a “black market” for stuff becomes the only way to get needed items... they won’t take credit cards.
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That's kind of what the person was alluding to. I'm not one who could even remotely be considered a prepper but we have stocked up on fresh and frozen food items. More than our normal pantry full of stuff. With my chemo treatments I've been told to eat lots of fruit, and my wife knows I ALWAYS do as I'm told. :rolleyes:
 
Gofirstclass said:
Having some cash on hand always helps.. We got a bid on an electrical installation in the house and it seemed to be well on the high side of what I expected. I later contacted one of the company's workers and asked him what he would charge to do the job for cash. No receipt, no record.

20% of what the company's bid was for.

Works for me.
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He will always be cheaper as he has no workman's comp, liability insurance or a electrical license.
I can never compete with a non license guy, This is what I found out.
Just be careful god forbid something happens that he did and your insurance company finds out it was done by a non license guy they might not pay.
Not saying that people don't do this all the time just be careful.
 
Spark, apparently I was not clear in my earlier post.
The guy who did the work is a licensed electrician who works for the company I got the bid from. He agreed with me that the bid was outrageously high for the amount of work to be done.

I would never hire a non-licensed guy to do work that needs to be done correctly. Driving nails and cutting boards don't need no stinkin' license but plumbing and electrical work does require a license IMHO.
 
RBB said:
Watching CBS this morning these are the numbers I seen.
20000 cases
269 deaths
What I take from that is 1.345% mortality rate.
If this is remotely close I think we are doing a good job in a bad situation.
Anyone else seen any numbers?
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There were 50m flu cases in 2019 up till March 2020.

30m medical visits due to flu.

500k hospitalizations.

50k deaths.

Not a word from governments nor CBS!
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

Compare to COVID-19 statistics.

Speculate among yourselves.
 
And now this from my marina - North Point Marina in Winthrop Harbor, IL.

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