Is eBay poised to pass Amazon in Internet Sales???

[mr_lincoln]

From a C/Net article:

"Amazon on Monday confirmed that it's significantly delaying US deliveries of nonessential items, as part of its effort to get more medical supplies and household staples to its customers during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these shipments will be delayed by as much as a month."

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One advantage eBay has is that it's Sellers are individual accounts, NOT warehouse based.  With Amazon "delaying" shipments on non-essential items as much as a month perhaps Buyers will be less likely to purchase from them not wanting to wait that long?!?  If eBay Sellers can still ship their items they stand a good chance of having their sales increase IMHO.

[prettywoman-2012]

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

The point is this virus is everywhere already. These travel restrictions should have been enacted two weeks ago or more. It’s pointless now, to quote a meme “the call is coming from inside the house”

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Personally I think Covid-19 was here a lot earlier then we realized ... I think many reports of pneumonia and flu like symptoms were actually Covid but not identified ... there was no test for it until recently.  Now the testing is simply letting us know where it is and where it isn't ... I still think travel bans will have a good impact against it.

I saw a couple of reports on the news that they now do not believe it originated in one of the wet markets BUT the wet market allow it to incubate and spread. 

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I have to agree with all points. Yes, it is highly likely that, either due to the similarity between SARS, pneumonia and this new SARS-COV-2 virus, there could be many cases where the coroner issued the wrong reason (not on purposes) for the death. 

And I also think the possibility of this COVID-19 (or, by its medical name, SARS-COV-2) having been dropped off into a food stand on a busy market by some wicked person, is present. Another country, perhaps not even somebody from China. There have been some countries for a while now who expressed great desire to rule the world, not just in the Orient. And what better way to attack the U.S.A. and UK, France, etc., than staring a pandemic among people who love to travel and are very high in numbers - then just lean back and watch, rubbibg hands as everyone is blaming the Chinese.  Watching in amusement, how those people (the Chines) are not only dying from it, but also carry the infection with them to just about every country of the world? It would have taken only ONE person to go on a cruise ship, for example, and even unaware of the fact that he / she is a carrier, he / she could have given it to a large number of people - who then would leave the cruise ship and go back to their respective homeland, start sharing photos, videos of their wonderful trip, chat with their favorite Boulangerie employee (bakery for those who do not speak French) and travel on the Paris or London underground - go to a cinema, to a hair-dresser, to work, etc. etc. 

Before you know, there are hundreds, then thousands of people who unbeknownst to themselves, perform the role of the "spreader." Because it is possible to only develop no, or only minor flu like symptoms, those who went down with a "cold" could have infected their spouse, children, the kids teachers, you name it.

This is why the experts are pushing for testing everybody, to get an idea of who carries it and who does not. The problems are, (a) there are too many people in our country to be tested at the same time, (b) there still are not enough testing kits, and (c) those who test negative today, may test positive 3-4 days from the date of the first test, but due to (b) they will not be re-tested, unless we can get the testing kit production going so not only do we have enough of them, but also some surplus. 

I could be wrong about the above wicked master-minding of this situation, but in a case like this one, any and all theories need to be weighed, even the most impossibly sounding ones. Of course, it is entirely possible that this theory is incorrect and some or all the accusations are true, but we cannot know for sure, and perhaps, never will.

This would also explain while they never found so-called Patient 1 - perhaps there was no such person, and we should be looking instead for Perpetrator #1. Hmm. Where is Sherlock, when we need him?

PW👀🐿

[chapeau-noir]

Since this thing has invaded just about every country by now, I can't imagine who is going to conquer anybody at this point. Unless something just got out of hand.

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

People do just love a good conspiracy theory don’t they?

I think that’s because people are feeling out of control. They’d rather blame tragedy on some bad guy they can stop in the future than nature, which always wins in the end.

[mr_lincoln]

@prettywoman-2012   Good post and I've been waiting for some of these to be honest.  "Its all about money" right?  Consider the chronology:

1. US "FINALLY" starts to enforce trade tariffs with China

2. US economy gets really strong

3. Covid-19 mysteriously comes out of China and it looks like it did NOT originate in the food markets, just bred there

4. Covid-19 world wide pandemic hits & US stock market crashes

5. Care to guess what countries are buying cheap stock knowing the US economy will rebound after Covid-19 has run its course?

[prettywoman-2012]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Since this thing has invaded just about every country by now, I can't imagine who is going to conquer anybody at this point. Unless something just got out of hand.

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Think about this just a bit more. If the "wicked ones" consider all other countries "collateral damage," they would not be particularly picky in their method to achieve their ultimate goal, now, would they? 

If you look at the news, the number of infected in the USA now is the highest in the world (although, for fairness' sake, I have to add, not the highest in proportion to the entire population of a country). 

PW🐿

[prettywoman-2012]

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

@prettywoman-2012   Good post and I've been waiting for some of these to be honest.  "Its all about money" right?  Consider the chronology:

1. US "FINALLY" starts to enforce trade tariffs with China

2. US economy gets really strong

3. Covid-19 mysteriously comes out of China and it looks like it did NOT originate in the food markets, just bred there

4. Covid-19 world wide pandemic hits & US stock market crashes

5. Care to guess what countries are buying cheap stock knowing the US economy will rebound after Covid-19 has run its course?

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I don't even dare to go there... but have some ideas as to whom this would benefit. By the way, whoever came up with this (if my presented theory is viable) did not just want to hit the U.S. economy hard, but perhaps the economy of a handful of other countries, too. And IF the theory - which, I admit, is just one of many possible explanations for what is enfolding in front of our eyes - would be correct, then somewhere, somebody is desperately trying to cover "its" tracks with a certain biological weapons Lab. 

By the way, am I the only one to wonder why some African countries with some of the most underdeveloped infrastructure, reported such low numbers of infected? Is it just the calm before the storm, or is there another explanation to people living in much more crowded togetherness than we in the U.S.A., exhibiting much more risky cultural and private health habits, have gone down far less with COVID-19 then highly-developed, fully industrialized countries? Is this just a coincidence, or can be explained by lack of testing kits, inadequate diagnostics or... because there is not much in monetary value that could be taken away from them, anymore?

PW🐿

[dk0]

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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I could be wrong about the above wicked master-minding of this situation, but in a case like this one, any and all theories need to be weighed, even the most impossibly sounding ones. Of course, it is entirely possible that this theory is incorrect and some or all the accusations are true, but we cannot know for sure, and perhaps, never will.

PW👀🐿

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If some entity was going to intentionally release a pathogen for the purpose of world domination, don't you think they would have created a vaccine for their own people first?

And the argument that all theories (regardless of how implausible they are) need to be investigated just means nothing ever gets determined, because you will NEVER run out of implausible theories.  (But, you are a defense attorney's dream juror!) 

[mr_lincoln]

@prettywoman-2012   I am sure a lot of people don't want to go there either but sometimes truth is stranger then fiction.  While I am by no means saying what I posted is true or not the chronology of events is what it is ... 

[chapeau-noir]

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

People do just love a good conspiracy theory don’t they?

I think that’s because people are feeling out of control. They’d rather blame tragedy on some bad guy they can stop in the future than nature, which always wins in the end.

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During the first onset of the plague in the 14th century too many people were certain that it was a sign of human wickedness or the fate of a people 'in the hands of an angry god.'  In England the Brotherhood of the Flagellants had a resurgence and there were squads of these people heroically whipping themselves through the streets - not just little whips, but waling on themselves with real flagella with hooks. 

So we could try that.  If nothing else, it'll keep people away from us.

[chapeau-noir]

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

@prettywoman-2012   Good post and I've been waiting for some of these to be honest.  "Its all about money" right?  Consider the chronology:

1. US "FINALLY" starts to enforce trade tariffs with China

2. US economy gets really strong

3. Covid-19 mysteriously comes out of China and it looks like it did NOT originate in the food markets, just bred there

4. Covid-19 world wide pandemic hits & US stock market crashes

5. Care to guess what countries are buying cheap stock knowing the US economy will rebound after Covid-19 has run its course?

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I don't even dare to go there... but have some ideas as to whom this would benefit. By the way, whoever came up with this (if my presented theory is viable) did not just want to hit the U.S. economy hard, but perhaps the economy of a handful of other countries, too. And IF the theory - which, I admit, is just one of many possible explanations for what is enfolding in front of our eyes - would be correct, then somewhere, somebody is desperately trying to cover "its" tracks with a certain biological weapons Lab. 

By the way, am I the only one to wonder why some African countries with some of the most underdeveloped infrastructure, reported such low numbers of infected? Is it just the calm before the storm, or is there another explanation to people living in much more crowded togetherness than we in the U.S.A., exhibiting much more risky cultural and private health habits, have gone down far less with COVID-19 then highly-developed, fully industrialized countries? Is this just a coincidence, or can be explained by lack of testing kits, inadequate diagnostics or... because there is not much in monetary value that could be taken away from them, anymore?

PW🐿

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My theory is that not many go there, and not many leave.  People and movement are the vectors for this.  

[prettywoman-2012]

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@dk0 wrote:

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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I could be wrong about the above wicked master-minding of this situation, but in a case like this one, any and all theories need to be weighed, even the most impossibly sounding ones. Of course, it is entirely possible that this theory is incorrect and some or all the accusations are true, but we cannot know for sure, and perhaps, never will.

PW👀🐿

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If some entity was going to intentionally release a pathogen for the purpose of world domination, don't you think they would have created a vaccine for their own people first?

And the argument that all theories (regardless of how implausible they are) need to be investigated just means nothing ever gets determined, because you will NEVER run out of implausible theories.  (But, you are a defense attorney's dream juror!) 

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You certainly have a good point about the vaccine. However, if we accept this argument then it is even LESS likely that it was the Chinese who started it. Because, if it were them, then they would have first had a vaccine in place, and would not have let so many people of their own die in the process. But keep the good ideas coming! 

Regarding your second paragraph: One of the reasons that human kind is at the level of advanced technology etc. as it is today, is that it never stopped thinking outside the box, or exploring even the most unlikely theories. That is what scientists are doing today, also. They brain-storm and then one by one, discard of those theories that are proven to be incorrect, or impossible to happen. 

PW👀🐿

[prettywoman-2012]

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

@prettywoman-2012   I am sure a lot of people don't want to go there either but sometimes truth is stranger then fiction.  While I am by no means saying what I posted is true or not the chronology of events is what it is ... 

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That is fine with me. I rather discuss things with someone who has limitless imagination - even if some of what he or she is saying may sound weird - than with somebody whose imagination is limited to which end of the tooth-paste he / she would squeeze every morning. Bring it on! Love your ideas. 

PW🐿❣️

[prettywoman-2012]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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By the way, am I the only one to wonder why some African countries with some of the most underdeveloped infrastructure, reported such low numbers of infected? Is it just the calm before the storm, or is there another explanation to people living in much more crowded togetherness than we in the U.S.A., exhibiting much more risky cultural and private health habits, have gone down far less with COVID-19 then highly-developed, fully industrialized countries? Is this just a coincidence, or can be explained by lack of testing kits, inadequate diagnostics or... because there is not much in monetary value that could be taken away from them, anymore?

PW🐿

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My theory is that not many go there, and not many leave.  People and movement are the vectors for this.  

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There actually are a lot of people going to Africa, and from China, also. In many African countries, they are building large projects *railway, other public transportation, hospitals, schools, etc). Search the internet for those, some billion dollar projects. Tens of thousands of Peace Corp employees, UN employees, contractors, healthcare workers, NGOs, etc. from Europe, Australia and the U.S.A. So, depending on which African country we are talking about, those are not really closed societies. 

But I guess my previous theory that we may be accusing the wrong country, now suffered a backlash after reading this in the news: 

https://news.yahoo.com/suspected-sars-virus-and-flu-found-in-luggage-fbi-report-describes-chinas-bio...

I think we will never know the full truth, this is way too complicated! And there could have been other people caught carrying bio-hazardous stuff., too, that we do not hear about. Hmm. 

Oh, well. One thing is sure: Somebody DID something (or failed to do something else). Now we have this huge tragic mess, and many other countries, too.

And back to the original topic by @mr_lincoln - I think that eBay may not outperform amazon, but it may come up as one of the strongest marketplaces currently, online, because I already see an uptick in orders (not on this account alone, but overall on eBay). 

We must maintain our confidence that this will not last forever, and that we get through the coming weeks with as little loss as possible, both in terms of human lives, and in terms of financial loss. May you all be safe from harm

PW🐿

[dk0]

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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@dk0 wrote:

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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I could be wrong about the above wicked master-minding of this situation, but in a case like this one, any and all theories need to be weighed, even the most impossibly sounding ones. Of course, it is entirely possible that this theory is incorrect and some or all the accusations are true, but we cannot know for sure, and perhaps, never will.

PW👀🐿

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If some entity was going to intentionally release a pathogen for the purpose of world domination, don't you think they would have created a vaccine for their own people first?

And the argument that all theories (regardless of how implausible they are) need to be investigated just means nothing ever gets determined, because you will NEVER run out of implausible theories.  (But, you are a defense attorney's dream juror!) 

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You certainly have a good point about the vaccine. However, if we accept this argument then it is even LESS likely that it was the Chinese who started it. Because, if it were them, then they would have first had a vaccine in place, and would not have let so many people of their own die in the process. But keep the good ideas coming! 

Regarding your second paragraph: One of the reasons that human kind is at the level of advanced technology etc. as it is today, is that it never stopped thinking outside the box, or exploring even the most unlikely theories. That is what scientists are doing today, also. They brain-storm and then one by one, discard of those theories that are proven to be incorrect, or impossible to happen. 

PW👀🐿

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I've yet to hear from any scientists who support your "wicked person" theory.  There is a big difference between scientists "thinking outside of the box", and wild conjecture by those of us who are hardly experts in the matter and have no evidence whatsoever to support those claims.

[mr_lincoln]

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@prettywoman-2012 wrote:

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

@prettywoman-2012   I am sure a lot of people don't want to go there either but sometimes truth is stranger then fiction.  While I am by no means saying what I posted is true or not the chronology of events is what it is ... 

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That is fine with me. I rather discuss things with someone who has limitless imagination - even if some of what he or she is saying may sound weird - than with somebody whose imagination is limited to which end of the tooth-paste he / she would squeeze every morning. Bring it on! Love your ideas. 

PW🐿❣️

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It's the limitless imagination that allow scientists, medical professionals, engineers and everyone else to think outside the box.  Its a well know fact that when a group of people put their heads together they come up with ideas that individually they may never have thought of.  This is a discussion and every viewpoint is welcome regardless of what it is ... even if some people need to vent and rant because of the stress or pressure they are under ... it's ... okay ...

I have given "Helpfuls" to posters who vigorously appose my opinion or viewpoint or openly criticized me ... sometimes its hard to resist the temptation to enter in to an argument because at the end of the day they are welcome to their opinion, have every right to post it and at times they may even influence me to change or alter my opinion ... I learned long ago that by respecting another person's opinion does not mean I have to agree with it but acknowledging that they have the right to state it ...