Stuck in Neutral ...

[mr_lincoln]

Our county has over 1/2 million people in it ... thus far there are 10 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no deaths.

Our State has 67 counties and 27 have no reported cases.  2 Weeks of limited contact seems to be helping but my feeling is that rural areas that are seeing few confirmed cases may feel like they are stuck in neutral ... I know I do.

Many sources for inventory have closed ... online estate and auction houses are still holding auctions but stating they will retain everybody's items until the restrictions are lifted and their regular offices resume again.   That's not really a solution, putting out $$ for inventory but having no clue when you might get it?

Non-Life Sustaining businesses have to be closed but pot shops and liquor stores remain open ... what is up with that?   

I am anticipating that we will be put under these constraints again for another 2 weeks ... to sometime in early April.

[nuclearomen]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Are we talking about coffee now?  😃  My favourite thing!  

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i'm sick of talking about virus so sure 😉

[chapeau-noir]

No kidding! That, free listings and price gouging. 😖

I have two espresso machines.  Guess what? I like espresso.

[bar-29368]

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@pvcliff wrote:
General reply regarding folks who think they and their families were infected back in early Feb. I spend quite a bit of time on a timeshare/travel board. Two different people report having been on small - medium cruise ships in December. One was a Middle East cruise, one was a Christmas market River cruise. Both cruises had passengers from China. Each poster got home a week or so before Christmas and about a week later were sick with severe illness that had all the hallmarks of corona virus and lasted several weeks. They each are 90% sure they had covid-19. Sure would be interesting if after the dust settles there was a way to check for markers in blood samples after the fact to see if indeed there were very early instances of the disease.

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They already are checking markers. The first USA death (in WA state) was found to be the same as the first cases in Wuhan. That was the first time I saw someone say it has been here already a lot longer than was thought.

[nuclearomen]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

No kidding! That, free listings and price gouging. 😖

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those also, really anything ebay/sales/virus related, at this point I'm on I Don't Give ____ Mode, thus I haven't been on the boards much lately. Focusing on my business, restocking supplies and got a lot of new inventory coming in next week as I'm also selling inventory in a partnership with a record store coming up for record store day which should help to move some product as long as they don't cancel that for "public safety" also.