MarxUltor posted:and a photograph of the exact location and contents of their cache, with pretty high confidence in the 6th storage unit from the left on the main building. A mile away from both a hospital, and a harbor freight.
wanna bet theyre counting on insurance to bail them out
I couldn't make this up if I tried. https://t.co/NFpDN4Kmtt pic.twitter.com/l6rYbmOabD
— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 14, 2020
folks,,,,,,,its real pic.twitter.com/0jai7dx2Bc
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 13, 2020
Is this loss pic.twitter.com/l9DZ1TQT9U
— Stay Home (@zachheltzel) March 15, 2020
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Synergy posted:it seemed like a month or two ago, the far left considered any talk about Covid-19 to be pure western sinophobia and comparable to the seasonal flu. but now all of a sudden it's supposed to be the death knell of capitalism. so I guess my question is: is the virus really that bad or did the hysteria cause a chain-reaction of systematic failures that will likely tank the economy?
the far left in my brain said something totally different, actually
12:53: drinking a coffee
tears posted:i got the coronavirus multiplying inside of me, see you on the other side
ilmdge posted:
Poor old Johnny Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
But he moved a million hearts in mono
Our mothers cried, sang along, who'd blame them
You're grown (so grown up)
So grown (so grown up)
Now I must say more than ever
Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye aye
And we can sing just like our fathers
COVID 19!
tears posted:getting ready to give you minute by minute updates on my personal corona virus journey
12:53: drinking a coffee
I will pray for you - and here's what's interesting - to survive
88888 posted:Excited for the Posting Renaissance covid quarantining will bring
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With aging rulers and a weak health system, could the coronavirus lead to a regime change in Iran?https://t.co/29Dks55vD5
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) March 13, 2020
this guy is currently stranded in italy
On Sunday morning, Matt Colvin, an Amazon seller outside Chattanooga, Tenn., helped volunteers from a local church load two-thirds of his stockpile of hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes into a box truck for the church to distribute to people in need across Tennessee.
Officials from the Tennessee attorney general’s office on Sunday took the other third, which they plan to give to their counterparts in Kentucky for distribution. (Mr. Colvin and his brother Noah bought some of the supplies in Kentucky this month.)
The donations capped a tumultuous 24 hours for Mr. Colvin. On Saturday morning, The New York Times published an article about how he and his brother cleaned out stores of sanitizer and wipes in an attempt to profit off the public’s panic over the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Colvin sold 300 bottles of hand sanitizer at a markup on Amazon before the company removed his listings and warned sellers they would be suspended for price gouging.
As a result, Mr. Colvin was sitting on an enormous cache of sanitizer and wipes while much of the country searched in vain for them.
The article immediately sparked widespread outrage, with thousands of people posting angry comments across the internet about his actions.
Many of those people also contacted Mr. Colvin directly with hate mail and death threats, while one man even banged on the door at his home late Saturday night, according to Mr. Colvin and several messages he shared with The Times.
In an hourlong interview on Sunday, Mr. Colvin expressed remorse for his actions and said that when he decided to hoard the sanitizer and wipes, he didn’t realize the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak or the severe shortage of sanitizer and wipes.
“I’ve been buying and selling things for 10 years now. There’s been hot product after hot product. But the thing is, there’s always another one on the shelf,” he said. “When we did this trip, I had no idea that these stores wouldn’t be able to get replenished.”
He said the outpouring of hate has been scary for him and his family. He said people have incessantly called his cellphone, posted his address online and sent pizzas to his home. His inbox was flooded with ugly messages, he said. One email he shared with The Times said: “Your behavior is probably going to end up with someone killing you and your wife and your children.”
“It was never my intention to keep necessary medical supplies out of the hands of people who needed them,” he said, crying. “That’s not who I am as a person. And all I’ve been told for the last 48 hours is how much of that person I am.”
Now Mr. Colvin is facing consequences. On Sunday, Amazon and eBay suspended him as a seller, which is how he has made his living for years. The company where he rented a storage unit kicked him out. And the Tennessee attorney general’s office sent him a cease-and-desist letter and opened an investigation.
“We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it,” Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III of Tennessee said in a news release.
Tennessee’s price-gouging law prohibits charging “grossly excessive” prices for a variety of items, including food, gas and medical supplies, after the governor declares a state of emergency. The state can fine people up to $1,000 a violation.
The language of the law could benefit Mr. Colvin. Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee declared a state of emergency on March 12, activating the price-gouging law. The Colvin brothers bought all of the sanitizer and wipes in question before that date, and Mr. Colvin said he did not sell anything after it.
A spokeswoman for the Tennessee attorney general’s office said that even if the Colvin brothers did not buy or sell any of the supplies after March 12, state authorities “will weigh all options under consumer laws.”
Totally off topic but I just thought of that shit cause of that failure of a parasite and got mad. But there's also something else to be said at the raging hysteria over the practices of random petty bourgeois hucksters, like the price jacking drug guy. Seems like sublimated anger that we should be politicizing instead of letting fizzle out or turn into catharsis when these individuals are not 'rewarded' for their behavior
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MarxUltor posted:donations
interesting way to say that he was explicitly ordered by the state to surrender his stockpile to the public
dimashq posted:Fed dropped interest rates by 100 basis points, lowered reserve requirements to 0 for certain banks, restarted QE.
I have a line to some people deep in finance still and they were completely shitting their pants today, about what the fed action and coordinated non-US central bank actions imply about some behind the scenes problems. my understanding is that it suggests there are extreme "dollar shortages" on the part of a lot of corporations throughout the entire west. I didn't quite get it since I haven't been immersed in that in a long time but some quotes were like "this is bigger than the global financial crisis" and "if this doesn't work that's it, this is all the ammo"
drwhat posted:it suggests there are extreme "dollar shortages" on the part of a lot of corporations throughout the entire west
Lmao. But Please. This is the thread for discussing people who were irresponsible with their personal hygiene and contracted Weakling's Lung. Not for would-a, could-a, should-a style finger wagging about alleged crimes that allegely enriched the alleged oppressor classes at the expense of our very capactiy for reproducing human society. Keep that kind of off topic conspiracy to the thread thats about bad things happening. Not here where we celebrate the triumph of the human spirit over the ability of a virus to survive on a speck of phlegm on the door handle of a 7-11 for up to 72 hours
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