Coronavirus: Miles away from ordinary.

They've always done this shit. I remember being told that my flight was canceled because of "weather" (meaning they didn't have to refund me, only rebook me) one time. Weather that magically was affecting their flights from Ohio to New England to DC, but was also magically not affecting any other carrier flying. Must have been one crazy superstorm.

 

I would imagine Ticketmaster, Live Nation and the airlines have already spent the cash and there is none available to refund. I guess the Government has to at least try and get the airlines to survive, but in my opinion, let them die, people do not get their refunds and hopefully the people who come in and restart the industry are better more conservative businessmen. As far as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, hope the concerts are rescheduled and the companies find the cash to put them on. I would not count on it though.

 

I’m not optimistic about the Rammstein stadium tour later this year. I’ve got 4 tickets to their show in NJ. Even if it doesn’t get postponed or canceled I may not go.

 

Canada sadly experienced a shooting spree today. I can't help but wonder if it was provoked by cabin fever or the like? I know speculation is dangerous, but with people understandably on edge and domestic violence being an especially major issue right now, I am a bit concerned we're gonna see more of these things.

Hopefully no one on this board was impacted or knows anyone who was. I cannot imagine the sheer terror those poor victims and first responders felt. Piece of shit dressed up like a police officer and drove a vehicle that looked like one belonging to the RCMP.

 

Flying has never scared me. Dealing with just about anybody that works in an airport terminal scares me. Everyone from the tickets agents to the asshole security to baggage handlers... all of these people have the potential to ruin your day and while under their roof.... you are their bitch. They can rip off your money, fuck up your schedule, take you in a back room and sexually assault you, patronize you in front of dozens of people, steal your shit. And you have to just sit there and take it. And as far as the modern-day flight attendants go, Doug Stanhope once said “Sky-cunt, you should have been replaced by a Coke machine twenty years ago. You’re the WORST.”

 

Thankfully my maritime friends weren't affected by it.

I'm just frustrated that the guy wasn't taken alive.

Now he's dead and can't be punished and his motives can only be examined circumstantially.

 

This guy was a VERY well-off guy (similar time the Vegas mass shooter), dressed up like a Mountie with a fully equipped RCMP cruiser and.... just went around killing people in a tiny town. This morning it was ten dead, now it’s at least sixteen. Fires all over the place from the rampage. It was planned, calculated for who knows HOW long.

He was pulling over random people in a police car and executing them. Knocking on their doors as a uniformed cop and murdering them in their homes, and burning them. This is the most insane thing in Canada since... well, ever.

 

My wife saw "Nova Scotia" go across the tv screen and asked where that was. I looked at her like she's an idiot and told her it's in Canada. She paused for a beat, I guess to think about it, then confidently said "Oh shit that's close to us!!"

Google maps says it's about 42 hours away.

 

Does she know where Maine is? Tell her it’s way fucking further.

Couldn’t have been that bad, because the killer is not only free, but allowed to change his identity and not be recognized as a killer or criminal whatsoever. He can go wherever he wants in the world. Enjoy, folks!

Honestly that’s almost as fucked up as the killing itself. I’ll never wrap my head around that one.

 

I live in New Hampshire, in the U.S., and a bunch of my fellow citizens had a protest march against one of the most lax stay at home orders in the country. So our relatively low mortality state should see a nice spike in that in about two weeks. Just awesome.

 

It's ironic that by doing these protests, and other sort of civil disobedience, they increase the likelihood that the rural states catch up to the urban ones currently inundated.

 

There are more studies like this one, notably in Chelsea, MA; Germany; and Italy saying roughly the same thing.

 

there was one fairly close to here. All those idiots neighbors outed them and now they're pariahs. Google history is forever, bud.

gotta love michigan though

 

Anybody familiar with law: When some of the dust settles from this, is there a good chance that we are going to be in for a lot of “You infected me with COVID so I’m suing you” lawsuits? For starters, That Cargill meat plant in Alberta was like a themo-nuclear virus spreader. People are less financially sound than ever.... it seems like a mean mix.

I’m just wondering, in an age of zero accountability where everybody wants something for nothing and blame others for their mistakes— what sort of OTHER financial and/or life-screwing shitstorms are in the mail?

 

There are currently ~14,000 dead in NYC, and ~40,000 nationwide. If the infection fatality rate is as low as 0.1%, that would require that, roughly three weeks ago, 14 million would have had to have been infected in NYC alone (170% of the population), and 40 million nationwide in order to achieve the fatality numbers we've seen. Those seem like unreasonably high numbers. It seems much more likely the infection fatality rate is 1-1.3%, and there were ~1.1-1.4 million infected in NYC and 3-4 million nationwide.

 

That is assuming deaths/hospitalizations are accurately coded. Which is still in question, I see arguments on both sides. Aside from that, clearly, comparatively NYC has been hit harder than anywhere else, what that reason is when this all shakes out will be interesting to read about. Using that as the guiding post for the rest of world seems overblown.