Isnât that what working from home means?
Some people actually still have to produce something when they work at home, depends on your job. If you have a job where you sit around and drink coffee all day then it makes no difference what you really do, but not everyone has that luxury.
This would be a bad time to get fired.
Check around at Dickâs Sporting Goods. Their locations are all closed but they do curbside dropoffs. I had already ordered a barbell so I didnât need another, but they had a 300 lb weight set with a barbell included - 255 lbs in plates and a 45 lb barbell, for $240. Thatâs less than a dollar a lb and you wonât find that ANYWHERE. Search all the locations in your area and if you pay online and go there theyâll bring it out to your car.
ShhhhhhhâŠ
Seriously though, Iâm better off than a lot of people because Iâm getting paid while we transition to remote working (or is it working remotely, or remotely working). I also had been given a project to work on a couple of weeks ago in addition to my regular work, that I can do from home, so I was ok employment wise. Unfortunately.
I buy a lot of fishing stuff from them
I had that exact set in my cart for curbside. Then I entered my location, and I would have to pick up at a store around 500 miles away. I think you got lucky. I really checked around a lot. I ended up going higher end with a local place yesterday. Got a rack, a squat bar, power bar, and 410 lbs in bumpers. Was way more than I wanted to spend.
Here is an interesting legal/public policy question: Can a landlord who rents a place shared by several others ban another person from moving in if they have been vacationing in an area like the Caribbean? The landlordâs lawyer says this person should be isolated by the Health Unit until clear because the risk of the others in the home environment being infected and then there you go, it explodes. I actually donât mind the cautiousness of this myself, I hope this isnât playing out in too many other places.
The dude should voluntarily isolate himself.
Last hour update from Italy.
The leader of our government briefly appeared on TV to announce a new restriction effective as of tomorrow.
All services and facilities that arenât grocery shops, pharmacies, the postal and bank services, or anything strictly necessary to the fulfillment of critical needs, are now shut down.
This means that not only all businesses are closed (they already had been for a few weeks), but from now on all factories of any kind and, in general, facilities that produce goods of any kind (excluding food and medicines) are closed now.
This is literally Italy coming to a halt. I have serious doubts weâll ever fully recover from this.
Areas of the US are beginning to do this although the definitions of critical needs may differ a bit by location.
Itâs very possible you wonât be the only country to do this. I anticipate the US doing it in a more regional or area effected sense than nationwide at this moment, but I wouldnât place serious money against it either.
Iâm in Kansas and about 35 miles away from one of four counties which is going shelter in place order on Tuesday. We may have waited far too long as a nation to take this seriously based on how our numbers are popping. 56 counties in Missouri and Kansas combined donât have a single hospital bed.
Businesses are trying to stay open as long as they possibly can and our citizens are going to those places since they arenât closed. Itâs looking like the government is going to essentially force businesses and residents to change their behavior, though I donât know what that means on a nationwide scale.
Meanwhile, Lotito wants his players to start training again.
This will be repeated in other countries so it wonât just be Italy. Look at Spain already.
A good side effect of these âmandatoryâ closures is people are operating outside goverment again. It really didnt take long either (im in upstate NY). Barbers, tattoo artist and other non essential services are working under the table. Straight cash, no tax, liscences or regulation. My barber can cut my hair at his house and it goes right into his pocket and none for uncle Sam. I know a massues that is doing the same. Why would they claim income from this time? They were forced to close, remember.
Yeah when I see how the number of cases in New York has skyrocketed my concerns for the people are that they are still able to get a shoulder rub and an arm sleeve. I wouldnât want them delaying that for a few weeks. Do you know how sick that dragon is gonna look?!
But theyâll have no problems taking a government check to help them while they âearn no money.â And youâre a sucker if you pay full price. Especially given that your paycheck has taxes taken out that will end up being part of their handout.
Because they arenât pieces of shit taking advantage of a situation that is hurting a lot of their friends, family, customers, neighbors and fellow Americans.
Come on. They are the real heroes rebelling against a government that is trying to save lives. Letâs not get into those tax paying suckers known as doctors, nurses, hospital staff, EMTs, cops, firefighters, National Guard, scientists⊠those fools should have thought about cutting hair and tattooing people, not saving them.
Private industry are heroes. Everyone being âgreedyâ is the reason you have food in grocery stores. Thats the beauty of capitalism. Itâs voluntary.
As far as this âbailoutâ nonsense is concerned, terrible idea. How about cut taxes. Dont take money out of the economy if your trying to help the economy. Make sense? Or the usual pivot to something unrelated for a âsocialism will save us allâ circle jerk?
If itâs necessary itâs because of the same greed that you credited capitalism for.
Who said this in this thread? A lot of posts so I must have missed this one.
A mixed market economy is the way to go. A government that does it all and a government that doesnât exist have proven to be failures.
To show how absurd it is in NY, liquor stores have been deemed essential and are open. Why is that? Whatâs the difference between them and any other retailer? The amount of tax revenue for the state.
No youâre right, itâs all about the health of the public.
I donât like the idea of bailouts either, but without them you will have a lot more problems. More businesses shutting down, way higher unemployment, even banks could potentially collapse. Thatâs the problem when the economy is basically a pyramid scheme where everything is built on debts.