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Post by doakley8 on Mar 20, 2020 8:21:00 GMT -5
and just saw California is on 24 hour lockdown..so happy Friday
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Post by varsity on Mar 20, 2020 9:28:32 GMT -5
We're probably not too far behind. Woke up this morning to a report of some schools not obeying his order to shut down which Im sure doesn't sit well with him. I'm just glad we did all the shopping we need so I don't need to be out in the stores.
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 20, 2020 10:57:21 GMT -5
and just saw California is on 24 hour lockdown..so happy Friday
Yup.
Basically all non-essential businesses have until 11:59pm to close until April 19.
I went into my office real quick this morning to grab some stuff but I've been pretty much working from home most of this past week anyways.
I stopped by the grocery realllll quick this morning just to grab milk, coffee creamer and ketchup. Was in and out in 10 minutes. Luckily wasn't busy at all and the grocery store did a great job keeping everything in order. Including the 3 security guards. No joke. I'm actually glad to see that because I think we as a society are two steps away from The Purge.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 20, 2020 11:18:29 GMT -5
and now NY is on lockdown
ugh..I have to go to the grocery store, I'll try it early tomorrow
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Post by varsity on Mar 20, 2020 17:54:08 GMT -5
and now NY is on lockdown ugh..I have to go to the grocery store, I'll try it early tomorrow Stores here have released statements telling customers it's no need to rush the stores today because they will still restock during the week and things will be more available. I went Wednesday to the store and it was almost completed restocked. Asked the manager and he said our trucks come in on Tuesday night. So I know what day I'll be at the store first thing in the morning lol.
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 20, 2020 18:33:34 GMT -5
No matter how many times people are told NOT to panic shop - be it by Trump, Pence, the governor of CA, the mayor of LA or anyone - people still do it because it is just human nature to hoard in a time of uncertainty. To feel safe that you have that stockpile ready just in case.
Early on I admittedly did buy supplies and food but it was to be prepared in the event of a full on "stay at home" order of two weeks, which was a rumor floating around. I wasn't sure if this meant restaurants would be closed, so naturally I needed to have food at home.
Alas restaurants and grocery stores remain open, so this need to panic shop and by supplies as if you are going to be trapped in a bunker for a year because of a nuclear bomb making the ground level uninhabitable is just nuts.
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Post by wareagle on Mar 21, 2020 16:15:54 GMT -5
At this rate I’m going to be shocked if they actually resume the NBA season.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 23, 2020 8:36:35 GMT -5
NBA is the last thing I'm concerned about. and I'm not really missing it.
Grocery run was mostly junk food..no meats/chicken etc. I just gotta not eat up all snacks and just go outside and keep busy.
NC is up to 311 positive. They've shut down all gyms and salons, barber shops etc until May (for now) and all nonessential businesses. I'm still working..but it's just 3 of us. Atleast gas is cheap. $1.63 here I carry a couple gloves for pumping gas and signing credit card pads. 2020 has been a struggle
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 23, 2020 11:33:13 GMT -5
NBA is the last thing I'm concerned about. and I'm not really missing it.
Don't get me wrong, the Coronavirus is far and away the most concerning thing right now and should be at the forefront of all our minds.
But I miss the NBA badly. And I miss the NCAA tournament. They would have been a great distraction right now.
It is what it is though. Everyone stay safe out there.
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Post by varsity on Mar 23, 2020 12:19:37 GMT -5
Yeah I'm enjoying my family time but having NO sports sucks. It was weird because I almost couldn't wait to start work just to chat with some co-workers lol.
I think NBA will return in some capacity even if it's just the playoffs. Of course that is assuming nothing else happens and we start to restart to normal.
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Post by YoungThundercat on Mar 23, 2020 13:19:31 GMT -5
NBA is the last thing I'm concerned about. and I'm not really missing it. Don't get me wrong, the Coronavirus is far and away the most concerning thing right now and should be at the forefront of all our minds. But I miss the NBA badly. And I miss the NCAA tournament. They would have been a great distraction right now.
It is what it is though. Everyone stay safe out there. 100% agree. I very badly miss sports even as just a reminder of how things were. A month ago we were all on here talking smack about fantasy hoops and now everyone is out of a job or quarantined inside their home 24/7 or side eyeing every other person they see like it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5jDotxSXVgtxQroZb0vHQ^Been going back and watching some old NBA games on this YouTube channel and it's helped a bit.
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Post by varsity on Mar 23, 2020 14:10:28 GMT -5
This would be a great time for ESPN to release that 6 part series on the Chicago Bulls.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 23, 2020 14:19:34 GMT -5
yea, I would for sure watch/record that.
When Kobe retired that knocked out a bit of my NBA interest. And moreso...as a LBJ hater..and he signs with my Lakers..that knocked it down a bit more..
So fantasy helps because I'm full NBA fan and looking at stats/highlights, games etc.
it didn't help my Tarheels sucked this year..so didn't follow college..so I hate it for the kids..but college I don't miss much.
Our governor just laid down alot more closings today, and school is out until atleast May 15th now. I too hate it for the kids..as I loved high school.
Can only hope this clears up in next 6 weeks or so and the economy bounces back and have a strong 2nd half of 2020.
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Post by varsity on Mar 23, 2020 14:42:22 GMT -5
I almost bought League Pass this year just to watch Luka Dondic and Lakers games. So glad I didn't. But I'm really missing March Madness.
Virginia just cancelled schools for the remainder of the term. Right now Illinois is out till April 20th I believe but it wouldn't shock me if they moved it to May. It sucks because the kids already missed so much time due to the teachers strike that happened last Fall. Kids are going to be in school practically all summer.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 23, 2020 14:50:45 GMT -5
I, believe it or not, was the basketball star at my school..Basketball season was all I was waiting for each season. I would have been crushed if i lost my season. I believe it is/was baseball season for most schools..while I played that as well..man yea just sucks. Missed memories..especially seniors. Yea I hate it. It's a once in a life time type event, (hopefully)
Same for college. No national champion..graduations? etc. Tough time
So many unemployed. The waiters/waitresses that live pay check to paycheck just to get by. Feel for everybody.
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Post by varsity on Mar 23, 2020 15:17:07 GMT -5
Yeah I feel bad for a few of my friends who have kids graduating from 8th or High School. Those were some great times for me and it would suck if my senior year got abruptly cut off. At least for the kids nowadays they have so many ways to stay in contact with each other whether text, Facetime, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If this happened when I was a kid, I'd be bummed out being locked in the house all day with parents.
I'm definitely grateful for employment. Last week was my 1st week at my new job and the whole week before I was worried they were going to push back my start date. This has been the weirdest week ever for me. I was basically handed a laptop last Monday and been at home ever since. My boss has only been at his post for 6 months so it's like we are all learning on the fly and now learning remotely which makes it even weirder.
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 23, 2020 20:55:17 GMT -5
These are some crazy times. The governor of CA had another press conference and one of the big news that came out was restaurants can now deliver alcohol. Sounds crazy but people had been able to buy alcohol to go, so this isn't any different. All in favor of whatever gets these restaurants more revenue during these tough times. A lot are closing around here. Not permanently - or at least that isn't their intention - but they simply can't afford to maintain payroll with a decrease of like 3/4 of their business. Only so many places can subsist on take-out/delivery. I do my best to provide patronage but spending every meal for me and my wife, and trying to tip generously, is a bit much if done regularly. Luckily we are both still employed and continuing to work. From home. Luckily I'm downstairs and she is in her office upstairs, so we don't aggravate each other.
And YES, ESPN absolutely needs to drop that MJ documentary early. Imagine the ratings. People are starved for entertainment. I was so bored this past weekend I actually watched a 2006 hamburger eating contest on ESPN. Seeing someone consume 50+ burgers in 8 minutes is freakin' disgusting and yet wildly entertaining at the same time. I've seen the 30 for 30 about Kobayashi. Very interesting.
Just gotta do our best to weather the storm. I don't mind quarantining myself for the greater good. As long as everyone else does it too. I'm talking to you idiots who did spring break in Florida last week or those idiots who flocked the CA beaches this past weekend.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 24, 2020 14:31:23 GMT -5
We are up to 473 positives..up from 314 yesterday I think Charlotte was just put on "stay at home" order starting Thursday
I imagine Raleigh (where I am) will be coming soon.
ESPN can run the OJ Simpson documentary next few days all they want..but they need to break on the Bulls Last Dance ..Friday would be nice
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Post by melbourne on Mar 24, 2020 19:48:46 GMT -5
We’re over 25,000 positives in NY state. The Navy is deploying a hospital ship to NY harbor to take some of the strain from the local hospitals.
We have been locked down for over a week.
I would love to be able to watch some live basketball right now!
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 24, 2020 20:17:04 GMT -5
We’re over 25,000 positives in NY state. The Navy is deploying a hospital ship to NY harbor to take some of the strain from the local hospitals. We have been locked down for over a week. I would love to be able to watch some live basketball right now!
CA is getting a Navy medical ship too. Additional 1000 beds to take care of non-coronavirus patients.
We've been on this stricter version of a lockdown here - "safer at home" order - in LA County since last Thursday but the guidelines started well before that. This is in effect until April 19 with schools closed down until at least May 1. All this talk from Trump about reopening the country, or pockets of it, by Easter is just insanity. A teenager just died of the illness here in CA. I don't know if he had any underlying conditions that made him more susceptible but that is straight up scary and should serve as notice for all those idiot people out there who fall in the "young and healthy" category that you are not 100% immune to this.
NBA games, if they found a way to just do it with no fans and no risk of exposure to illness, would have been a great distraction right now. Instead all we have is NFL Free Agency news in terms of non-coronavirus talk.
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Post by obitron64 on Mar 24, 2020 23:23:51 GMT -5
I live in New Rochelle. We're on like day 13 of this lockdown.
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Post by YoungThundercat on Mar 25, 2020 5:23:43 GMT -5
Yeah, we are way ahead of the curve here in Ohio (so far, fingers crossed). 564 confirmed and 8 deaths.
Trying to stay apolitical on here, but I have to admit...I did not vote for Mike Dewine (and I still vehemently disagree with him on a lot of policies) but he has been a shining light in terms of governmental response to this around the nation. And that includes the doofus who lives in DC. We have been quick to action where other states are frighteningly lagging.
It's strange seeing as my company is "essential", but since I work production, we still have to go into work every day. So in essence, my days haven't changed. And yet, there's always that feeling that I'm one door handle opening, one being handed a paper from a coworker away from contracting and bringing it back home to my wife (who has been working remote for the past two weeks) and 2 year old (who has been out of daycare for the same amount of time).
And even though we've talked about it, my wife can't help herself ingesting Coronavirus news 24/7 and living in her little bubble of anxiety.
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Post by varsity on Mar 25, 2020 10:37:49 GMT -5
An emotional Karl-Anthony Towns revealing that his mother, diagnosed with the coronavirus, is in a coma and connected to a ventilator. He’s clearly trying to further alert the public to the seriousness of the pandemic via ESPN.com
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 25, 2020 10:37:55 GMT -5
Yeah, we are way ahead of the curve here in Ohio (so far, fingers crossed). 564 confirmed and 8 deaths. Trying to stay apolitical on here, but I have to admit...I did not vote for Mike Dewine (and I still vehemently disagree with him on a lot of policies) but he has been a shining light in terms of governmental response to this around the nation. And that includes the doofus who lives in DC. We have been quick to action where other states are frighteningly lagging. It's strange seeing as my company is "essential", but since I work production, we still have to go into work every day. So in essence, my days haven't changed. And yet, there's always that feeling that I'm one door handle opening, one being handed a paper from a coworker away from contracting and bringing it back home to my wife (who has been working remote for the past two weeks) and 2 year old (who has been out of daycare for the same amount of time). And even though we've talked about it, my wife can't help herself ingesting Coronavirus news 24/7 and living in her little bubble of anxiety.
My company actually has an office about 15 minutes outside Cleveland. I actually visited that office once and it so happened to be during the 2017 NBA Finals. I watched one of the games on screens outside the Quicken Loans Arena, which is what it was called at the time anyways. Cleveland is a pretty underrated city.I'm always in favor of a downtown with a poker room in a casino in it.
A lot of the shining lights in this mess have been mayors and governors. Cuomo in New York has reallllllly stepped up to the plate. For CA, I definitely have faith in Newson/Garcetti. At this stage states have to look out for themselves because Trump isn't doing nearly enough to help them out, like enforcing the Defense Production Act because corporations asked him not to. What boggles my mind is the high approval rates Trump is getting, whether overall or his handling of the coronavirus. Are you people crazy? He BOTCHED this thing from the get-go - even way earlier when he disbanded the agency that would have actually handled this situation - and nothing has changed on that note. His press conferences make me want to jump inside the TV and choke him.
I just hope the stimulus package passing through the government now really helps all those who need it. People struggling to make ends meet because they got laid off or hours cut or furloughed. Small businesses who don't know if they can make it through this. And then there is legitimate oversight for the $ given to corporations because F the idea of giving Trump/Mnuchin control over that.
As much as I tell myself I need to stop watching the news, there I am every day watching CNN because I trust the people they have on there. Not so much Cuomo, Lemon, Cooper etc. but more so their guests, like Sanjay Gupta. It's like listening to Dr. Fauchi but not being held back by having to watch their words so as to not piss off Trump. Part of me hopes Trump fires Fauchi just so we can hear what he truly thinks. Part of me also realizes that is a terrible idea because no Fauchi means more likely Trump will kill us all.
Ok enough politics. Sorry.
Stay safe everyone.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 25, 2020 10:43:19 GMT -5
I'm not political guy..but Trump clearly did take it too lightly..and is playing catch up and make nice to bail out the short comings and lack of preparation.
I'm still at work..it's a small business..family owned so it's slow..mainly because we depend on alot of business from the state and office supply stores..and they are obviously down.
They are putting Durham County..which is next to Wake County(where I am) on lockdown..so I'm assuming it's coming my way in a couple days.
Good news it's beautiful outside in the 70s and hitting mid 80's this weekend..but with lockdown creeping in..I'm passing on groceries..just go with what I got and worry about it later.
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 25, 2020 10:44:07 GMT -5
An emotional Karl-Anthony Towns revealing that his mother, diagnosed with the coronavirus, is in a coma and connected to a ventilator. He’s clearly trying to further alert the public to the seriousness of the pandemic via ESPN.com
Prayers for KAT's mom.
I told my friend about this and he said that while it brings attention to the severity of the situation, along with people like Hanks and Elba getting it, they are on the "older side". So for the idiot younger kids to truly grasp the situation and take it seriously, someone like Bieber or a Kardashian or a youtube star needs to get it.
I responded with: "What about Durant? Gobert? Mitchell? Younger athletes. Isn't that raising awareness?".
He said: "Yeah... to NBA fans. Also they look fine. So it just helps the idea that younger people aren't in danger. Someone young needs to get it and get really really really sick or maybe even die"
Damn. That's morbid. And sadly, maybe true on some level. That's just how society is. People don't take crap seriously until it legitimately hits them close to home.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 25, 2020 10:52:54 GMT -5
The Surgeon General challenged the Kardashians to get the word out..and shamelessly I follow them..Kylie and Selena Gomez have the biggest IG following, along with Cristiano Ronaldo. So they are posting alot about social distancing..and moreso Ronaldo with his financial contributions.
NBA guys are pretty much just on tik tok and playing video games.
I'm guessing until it "hit's home" they'll do what they are doing.
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Post by varsity on Mar 25, 2020 10:55:56 GMT -5
I just hope the stimulus package passing through the government now really helps all those who need it. People struggling to make ends meet because they got laid off or hours cut or furloughed. Small businesses who don't know if they can make it through this. And then there is legitimate oversight for the $ given to corporations because F the idea of giving Trump/Mnuchin control over that. I have zero confidence in our government. From this administration to Congress, I've lost all hope that their interest is helping the people who need it most. I tend to believe they are more interested in furthering the divide between 1% and the rest of us. I'm not a big political guy and tend to not engage discussing it but it's ridiculous how one of the greatest nations in the world has been so inept and irresponsible towards handling this crisis. If we weren't a laughing stock before, I don't see how we aren't now. I already know 80% of the money probably tied into this stimulus package is for big corporations. The fact companies like Boeing or United claim they can't last more than 3 weeks without needing BILLIONS of dollars to operate is ridiculous. The people running these companies are the same people constantly criticizing the middle and lower class for not being able to build financial wealth or creating savings for a rainy day. Yet they can't keep their business operations running whenever something bad happens. At this point, I'm like you. I've stopped watching the news because it just angers me. I'm just glad none of my family or friends are suffering health wise. That's really all I care about now. Anyway, that's my .02 cents lol.
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Post by doakley8 on Mar 25, 2020 11:25:54 GMT -5
Well my lockdown time has come..they are announcing it tomorrow afternoon when ours it to begin..my guess is Friday evening at 5pm. So we'll see how it goes.
* ugh..sounds like it will be until April 30th..
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Post by eddieeddie on Mar 25, 2020 12:16:29 GMT -5
Economic recessions really hurt my company because we are small. Currently under 60 people.
Back in 2008, my company forced us to take a 20% pay cut for our company to survive. We didn't get our full salary until more than a year later.
Back in 2016, we offered a severance package - far too generous if you ask me and I said as much to upper management - to anyone who wanted to leave and 14 people took it, including 3 of my closest friends and 2 of my best employees on my team. When your company offers you 3 or 4 months in pay to leave, honestly that would entice almost anyone. That was a dark day and I still call it the "Red Wedding". Basically all of them got another job fairly quickly and rubbed it in my face they were getting a double-salary.
I shudder to think what my company might do this year. No denying the impact of this. The slowdown in incoming work is palpable. Legitimately I went more than 30 minutes this morning without an external email. Hate to say it but I'd rather see people leave than take a paycut. I have a mortgage to worry about, which wasn't the case in 2008 when I was still living with my parents to save $ for a house.
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