Coronavirus
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We did cloth diapers with my son and they were the worst! They're not nearly as capable of containing a blowout, smell rancid after an overnight, smell rancid sitting in a wet bag before they're washed, leak through frequently and you need to adapt a certain "dunk and splash" method for cleaning poop off immediately in a toilet if you don't have a sprayer attachment for your toilet. Much to my wife's dismay there were a few that I just said "fuck it" and threw them away after a massive poop. They also need to be washed a special way so they remain absorbent and then putting the different kinds back together can be a fucking puzzle. Sorry for the rant... Bad memories.
That sounds terrible.
We have three kids and never even considered cloth diapers. Are middle one would have blowouts regularly even with the fancy diapers that have all those little poop pockets to contain that shit. Her poop was like fuck that - up the back I go. Cloth diapers wouldn't have stood a chance with her.
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This is a much better way to strengthen ones reputations.
Never let a tragedy go to waste I guess
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Man I hope those projections are wrong because if Wisconsin gets to 200,000 cases, places like New York and Italy are totally f*d
The projections were pretty spot on until this stay at home thing came in effect. Guess time will tell.
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The projections were pretty spot on until this stay at home thing came in effect. Guess time will tell.
It sounds like should take up to two weeks for any actions taken to start showing results in the infection rate, and right now I'd say we are about a week into people actually starting to take it seriously so I really hope to see rates slow down a bit by the end of next week...
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bit of hope!
the projections are starting to plummet, i.e. "stay at home" may be starting to show its working! its gone from 200k to 40k to 16k for WI.
Dan
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Good news for everyone. But if this fucks up my summer plans ill be PISSED. I am planning on transferring to UWEC for the spring semester but Im on the fence about signing a lease for the summer if im just going to end up doing online classes.
you're gonna be pissed, huh? about your lease in Eau Claire? what is that like, $400/month? people are living in terror. people are going bankrupt. people are becoming homeless. people are dying. i think youll be OK if you rent a place and don't get your money's worth.
Dan
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I heard some similar belly-aching on the radio about students missing their graduation ceremonies. They were talking about it like kids were going to traumatized or something. I wish my life was so perfect that that's all I had to worry about.
Those are the people that are in for a real wild time once they graduate!
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The 2008 and 2009 graduating classes were hammered by the state of the job market. Short of folks with degrees in health care or IT related fields, this class will also have it rough if not worse.
class of 2008 right here. i went to our department's job fair day and had 4 interviews with major milwaukee companies scheduled. in the first two interviews it came to light that the companies had no open positions but were interviewing people anyways 'for their files'. the 3rd and 4th interviews I opened with "do you have any jobs available" and after getting a no, I said thank you and walked out.
ended up self-employed/own home business for many years after school, but it got me through!
Dan
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You guys... lamborghini started producing surgical masks and THEY EVEN HAVE A LITTLE LAMBORGHINI TAG! When, and I say when because there will be a when, when there is pandemic memorabilia in decades this will be up there in the automotive world.
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THEY EVEN HAVE A LITTLE LAMBORGHINI TAG!
Is it to stop the bull from coming out of your mouth, or just to let everyone know that what comes out of your mouth is bull?
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first things first, WI is looking hopeful - the number of new cases has been steady over the last few days, instead of increasing. rate of spread is slowing and social distancing is working. lets hope the election shenanigans dont compromise our progress.
second things second.
I was thinking that this 4/20 is going to be the biggest 4/20 in history, due to the number of people at home and the number of people who need a fricken break from real life. thoughts?
Dan
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I was thinking more along the lines of the 4th of July being ‘yooge, but you may be on to something. What site are you using to track virus data?
I have been using https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
but It may not be very accurate as it seems to rely on user data like a wiki page.
Working from home hasn't been as glamorous as I thought it might be. The stress has been worse from communication breakdowns and employee laziness.
Im grateful to still be employed for the while. I still head in to the office for ~2 hours a few times a week to take care of some things I cant do from home and am surprised by the amount of people who are just out doing things. I cant imagine they are all unemployed. I feel moreso they are supposed to be working but just aren’t.
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@YoungCR and people in the medical field like @DrLeadFoot deserve some serious recognition for keeping things going while in survival mode. -
I was thinking more along the lines of the 4th of July being ‘yooge, but you may be on to something. What site are you using to track virus data?
I have been using https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
but It may not be very accurate as it seems to rely on user data like a wiki page.
Working from home hasn't been as glamorous as I thought it might be. The stress has been worse from communication breakdowns and employee laziness.
Im grateful to still be employed for the while. I still head in to the office for ~2 hours a few times a week to take care of some things I cant do from home and am surprised by the amount of people who are just out doing things. I cant imagine they are all unemployed. I feel moreso they are supposed to be working but just aren’t.
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@YoungCR and people in the medical field like @DrLeadFoot deserve some serious recognition for keeping things going while in survival mode.for wisconsin, i'm using the one Rek posted
someone is personally tracking the wisconsin numbers, no idea where he got it from. it has daily update projections based on averages of the last few days, shows percentage of spread increase, etc.
you must be confused about DrLeadFoot, he's in the RE game. doesnt detract from how hard he is working for people, though!
and about all the people out and about, you're right it seems like there is too many. i've only been out to buy food and once to go to work when "at home" wouldnt cut it for tech support.
my big complaint is when i've been to the grocery store (just twice in the last 30 days) to buy as much food as possible without risking stuff spoiling I see people walking out of the store with like a single bag of chips and a case mountain dew. did you really need to go out for just that?! and if you are going out for that, buy like fricken 20 bags and 10 cases so you dont go out again!
Dan
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I suppose I haven’t chimed in yet. I appreciate the thanks but really it’s mostly business as usual besides the extensive hand washing, distancing and some scheduling conflicts.
I was out for about 2 weeks straight before this week, bounced around the East for about 5 of those days. The freight rates were good, van rates were up just slightly because the “spot market” bubbled for loads likely considered essential. Spot freight is basically non-regular, on-demand shipments that pay higher with tight deadlines.
I could have profited really well had I chosen to deliver loads paying $5-6/mi going into NYC but that’s not much higher than normal and wasn’t worth going into essentially a war zone and risking my health.
Below are the average Rate Per Miles in 3 segments. As mentioned van stayed about the same because the bubble evened out the loss that flat bed saw due to business closings. This chart was published Monday 4/6.
My only concerns so far have been reduced staffing and truck availability. I picked up at a warehouse in Indianapolis that said they’ve been short staffed for a year now, 3 guys were loading trucks at this 70k plus sq/ft warehouse. I’m sure most places were short staffed from illness as well. Because only essential business are open, those are the only ones shipping out and all the available trucks are competing for that freight. If store demand levels out or drops a little, freight rates will go down as well. This year has already been a crazy year for trucking companies closings, I would assume quite a few more will call it quits.
It’s important that we flatten the curve but we also need to get things going again before we crash harder. I don’t think it’s gonna be effectively safe to do so before that happens though. The kicker is rushing back into things will just bite us like China opening their movie theaters for less then a day.
I’m no economist, those are just the insights I have. We’re all in this together and truly depend on each other. Hopefully we’ll just have to continue with these small sacrifices before things turn around.
Source for those more interested beyond my explanation: https://info.landstar.com/acton/attachment/17279/17279:f-3e8fc845-af35-4976-850f-26d5451a9a5b/0/s-0327-2004/-/q-0127/l-00a5:4c3ae/?sid=TV2:iib4lU8vp
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