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Texas, which has a per capita testing rate of just 124 people out of every 100,000, ran out of coronavirus tests Tuesday at one state health lab. - ty97 Apr 1, 11:46
Schumer talking about "unemployment insurance on steroids", how would he know about steroids if the Yankees weren't dirty? Huh? Huh? -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:36
Philly brewery makes "Felt Cute, Might Feed My Husband To A Tiger Later IDK" beer -- (link) - crash davis Apr 1, 11:24
Poll: Things that you think will be finished by this. (Example: Handshaking.) -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:22 98
- Commuting/mass transit, maybe, if it's seen as an incubator. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:49
- TRUMP! - Mop Apr 1, 11:49
- Humans - ty97 Apr 1, 11:48 2
  - humans who are over the age of 70 and think this is a hoax -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:49 1
    - Or those who don't think it's a hoax and are just hunkering down and hoping for the best. -- nm - Meg Apr 1, 11:56
- maybe super-crammed airplane seating? When people start to travel again they will be VERY wary. Airlines may need to give people space to lure them - Andie Apr 1, 11:47 4
  - Conversely, I can see a version where's there's barely any airlines and thus an utter lack of choice -- nm - JD Apr 1, 11:50
  - This may be the greatest test for which side wins. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:49
  - For sure. -- nm - Loyola Apr 1, 11:49
  - OMG yes, I will be scared of planes for a long time. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 11:49
- I said it before, humans in general are stupid. There may be a prolonged lull, but I totally expect life will return as it was. -- nm - VMan Apr 1, 11:47
- Holding the door open for someone. - Loyola Apr 1, 11:45 3
  - I sure hope not. But doubt it. Saving someone having to touch the door is still worth more. -- nm* - Spawn Apr 1, 11:47 1
    - I make a point of using the handicap auto opening door, hitting it button with my elbow or hankie -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:50
  - perhaps within the younger generation only -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:46
- I'm not shaking anyone's hand again. ever. -- nm - Pippy- blueberry bungie jumper Apr 1, 11:43 4
  - You can keep shaking elsewhere. -- nm - Groiny SI Apr 1, 11:48 3
    - I miss that perverted bastard -- nm - Pippy- blueberry bungie jumper Apr 1, 11:49
    - where *IS* Wes? -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:48
    - G'day, mate. -- nm - Crocodile Dundee Apr 1, 11:48
- Laura Bailey's reign as the best D&D player on Thursday nights -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:41
- Orgies. -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:39 3
  - Nope. This is absolutely not gonna happen. We're way too horny a species for that -- (edited) - JD Apr 1, 11:41 2
    - I called a hotel last week in Vegas that had 4% occupancy. 4! -- nm - Pippy- blueberry bungie jumper Apr 1, 11:42
    - if HIV couldn't do it.... -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:42
- breweries that rely heavily on their taphouse for income - colin Apr 1, 11:38 1
  - Yeah, a lot of craft breweries are going to be hit hard. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 1, 11:40
- HSX -- nm - Roger More Apr 1, 11:38 8
  - what are you talking about? i'm racing KIDS to delist right now. -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:38 7
    - If no one's going to see movies, no one's caring about opening weekends and no one's interested in buying the data HSX generates -- nm - Roger More Apr 1, 11:42 6
      - maybe they'll finally shift to worldwide numbers. -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:49
      - I wonder if they try to adjust to digital sales or something other than NATO box office. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:43 3
        
        I don't think so. HSX exists because movie studios don't have a direct relationship with their customers. - Roger More Apr 1, 11:51
        
        I don't think very many digital platforms release numbers usefully. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 1, 11:44 1
        
        Not now, and not that HSX has influence, but maybe they'll shift too? I'm just brainstorming. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:46
      - (but - speculation on my part, not based on anything said on the site) -- nm - Roger More Apr 1, 11:43
- letting someone "taste" your drink? or food? - JenBro Apr 1, 11:37 4
  - Pressing buttons in a lift/elevator. - Loyola Apr 1, 11:40 3
    - oh, our office building now has contactless detectors to open doors. I can see this happening somehow in elevators too. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:42 2
      - ~steps into elevator~. 'Alexa fifth floor please'...'but Andie you live on the ninth floor. WHO are you going to see!?? and does Dave know??' -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:44
      - China has a few touchless elevators, hologram-like -- nm - Beryllium Apr 1, 11:43
- Corporate resistance to telecommuting. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 1, 11:37 8
  - I think this is the big one. - Dark Callisto Apr 1, 11:38 7
    - Watch them overshoot though and make forced WFH problematic or discriminatory. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:40 4
      - it will be a way to cut wages.. that's the outcome in any case.. lay off a bunch, bring back at reduced wages because "you should be grateful" -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:44
      - Actually I think they'll overshoot in the direction of greed and try to off shore a bunch of office jobs - JD Apr 1, 11:44 2
        
        “We were already doing that.” -- nm - Corporate America Apr 1, 11:49
        
        Ala customer service, when was the last time you talked to someone based here -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:48
    - I think this ends up like the Open floor plan. People will do it for a while but then realize the downsides of it and eventually come back -- nm - oblique Apr 1, 11:39 1
      - This. It's what happened with us. - JaxSean Apr 1, 11:41
- Guessing a lot of Chinese/Asian Restaurants. -- nm - VMan Apr 1, 11:35
- Night clubs, music taverns -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:35 1
  - Organised religion. -- nm - Loyola Apr 1, 11:36
- Magazines in waiting rooms. -- nm - Loyola Apr 1, 11:34
- Starbucks InStore Cafes -- nm - budice Apr 1, 11:32
- Movie Theaters? -- nm - budice Apr 1, 11:31
- My desire to talk to about 30% of my acquaitances, it seems. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 1, 11:30
- I think a lot of offices will be way more flexible on hours and WFH going forward. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:29 1
  - Yeah I was going to say ‘huge offices’. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 1, 11:31
- Trump / Pence, hopefully -- nm - JaxSean Apr 1, 11:28
- eating bats (hopefully). -- nm - Diva Apr 1, 11:27
- Business Air Travel as we know it -- nm* - budice Apr 1, 11:27 1
  - good one. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:28
- Hopefully the idea that we're invulnerable to diseases that crop up elsewhere in the world. -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:26
- Gamestop -- nm - oblique Apr 1, 11:26 2
  - Macys, removed from S&P index today -- nm - budice Apr 1, 11:26 1
    - JC Penny should finally be gone too -- nm - colin Apr 1, 11:46
- A lot of restaurants. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 11:25 5
  - But will there be new ones to replace them or are we just going to keep having things delivered or get take out from the survivors? -- nm - JD Apr 1, 11:34 4
    - Lunch rooms, fast casual will survive ,its the destination celebration party places -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:36 3
      - I need my high-end restaurants to survive. One of life's little pleasures for me is having someone cooking and serving my dinner in style. -- nm - Meg Apr 1, 11:40 1
        
        You and me both! -- nm - JD Apr 1, 11:46
      - Agreed for the current. But will there be investors willing to try actual restaurants on the other side? - JD Apr 1, 11:38
- Small Business -- nm - budice Apr 1, 11:25 1
  - :( -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:25
- Cash. -- nm - Loyola Apr 1, 11:24 16
  - Really? I have been paying in cash and saying, "Keep the change." I prefer that to handing someone my CC and then taking it back. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:28 15
    - Cash is top-five out of everything for bacteria. Switch to CCDs *immediately*. - David Apr 1, 11:38
    - Who are you handing cards to? It's all contactless now. -- nm - Remlik Apr 1, 11:38 3
      - Drive-up windows. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:41
      - the Wallet Inspector gets Spawn 3 times a week -- nm - Beaker Apr 1, 11:39
      - Not at the drive-thrus around here. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:39
    - We have contactless payment with cards. - Loyola Apr 1, 11:33
    - Yeah, but they don't want to touch your cash. Some places here started plastic only (but of course, we just tap our cards, they don't touch them) - Andie Apr 1, 11:32 8
      - I can see that. Cash has been in my wallet for months, so it is pretty clean. If the place lets me insert my own card, I will do so. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:36 4
        
        maybe the archaic US banking practices will die. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:37 3
        
        DING DING DING. Jesus, some US places probably still use those carbon paper card swipe machines. -- nm - Shaun Apr 1, 11:50
        
        Seeing how slowly many places are to updating to chip readers, I wouldn't count on it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:39 1
        
        you guys are like 20 years behind. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:39
      - Right, cash is germy as hell.Pay in advance and have delivered or pay in advance and pick up. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 1, 11:34 2
        
        Yep, I had my card ready at the Walmart pickup. He said "Oh, you already paid online - would you like me to sign the receipt for you?" -- nm - Meg Apr 1, 11:38
        
        This makes me a bit sad as I try to tip in cash having heard horror stories of the tips never reaching the people I'm trying to tip -- nm - JD Apr 1, 11:36
- hopefully the current administration -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:24
- disagree with you on that one. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:24 1
  - I don't actually think that, it was an example of something I could make a case for. I think it takes time for it to come back though. -- nm - Andie Apr 1, 11:24
- nothing. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 1, 11:23 1
  - i meant for personal behaivor. I think it will result in a signfiicant decrease in the number of business (probably chains and small businesses) -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 1, 11:28
- Good thing I can do the vulcan hand signal for hello -- nm - oblique Apr 1, 11:23
PA Gov. Wolf orders the entire state on lockdown (previously it was only certain counties). PA increase today +960 cases -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:17 3
- Hmm... -- nm - Diva Apr 1, 11:19
- Dad keeps saying Texas is fine with testing, I sense otherwise. -- nm - budice Apr 1, 11:18 1
  - Let me help: They're not. Here's the number: On Monday, 345 people in Texas were tested. -- (edited) - loosilu Apr 1, 11:22
Does my new laptop make me look fat? - David Apr 1, 11:10 15
- I’m more surprised you were able to get one. -- nm - spamlet Apr 1, 11:27 5
  - It wasn't easy to find something that would work. However, I have to say that Wal-Mart really crushed it. - David Apr 1, 11:33 1
    - That’s good. I haven’t checked in the last week but manufacturers had month waits for delivery two weeks ago. -- nm - spamlet Apr 1, 11:39
  - I mean, David doesn't even have a job, right? -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:28 2
    - Computer hardware is difficult to find right now with everyone working from home suddenly. -- nm - spamlet Apr 1, 11:32
    - but he does have Bezos on speeddial, right ? -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:31
- How many cameras are on you? -- nm - oblique Apr 1, 11:22
- if you have to ask, dont trust crash. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 1, 11:21 1
  - crash is one of the most honest people on ST so when he tells David that the new laptop makes him look fat, he will have to believe it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:23
- How'd you manage to kill the old one? - JD Apr 1, 11:16 4
  - One of Kim, me, and the cats broke the chassis. Honestly not sure which. - David Apr 1, 11:21 1
    - and thus your original IM. Color me impressed -- nm - JD Apr 1, 11:23
  - to much Oogieloves -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:19 1
    - WTF is an Oogielove?! -- nm - znufrii Apr 1, 11:19
- for spring, I recommend gunmetal gray in a larger than necessary case for a slimming look upon your lap -- nm - crash davis, fashion designer Apr 1, 11:13
best tweet about Tiger King that I have seen -- (link) - crash davis Apr 1, 11:05 3
- He's a dead ringer. Jared Leto wants in. I think Woody Harrelson could play a convincing Doc Antle -- nm - Pippy- blueberry bungie jumper Apr 1, 11:31 2
  - Woody is most excellent casting -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:34 1
    - Malik Ackerman as his top tiger chick - China. -- nm - Pippy- blueberry bungie jumper Apr 1, 11:41
Several years ago I read a book by a sociologist who walked every block in NYC. William Helmreich has died of coronavirus :( -- (link) - ty97 Apr 1, 11:05 4
- Several years ago I had an idea to walk every block in NYC. Never knew someone had actually done it. :( -- nm* - znufrii Apr 1, 11:06 3
  - spoiler - Spawn Apr 1, 11:08 2
    - Huh. Never thought to look. -- nm - znufrii Apr 1, 11:19 1
      - I know, different beast, but I have driven every road in Bloomington Indiana. The desire to cover ground is not that uncommon. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:22
I ask below about holiday plans, because I'm working on a hypothesis that the economic effects of the corona crisis on tourism for next year are akin - Loyola Apr 1, 11:00 15
- road trips with camping might be more popular choices? -- nm - JenBro Apr 1, 11:08 7
  - Camping is NEVER the right choice. - Cuzzin Todd Apr 1, 11:15 5
    - I used to love camping but haven't done it for a couple of years now :( Mostly due to balance issues and - Meg Apr 1, 11:30
    - LOLOLOL - funny because I thought of your trip down the Pacific highway as one I would consider doing! -- nm - JenBro Apr 1, 11:19
    - well not in Iowa, but you do have the freedom to go to awesome campgrounds elsewhere -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:16 2
      - NOT. ANYWHERE. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 1, 11:17 1
        
        YOU ARE MISSING OUT, BUT I WILL MAKE MYSELF AVAILABLE TO SHOW YOU YOU"RE WRONG (post crisis) -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:19
  - True. I should have added international travel. -- nm - Loyola Apr 1, 11:11
- Kind of hard to do, though. The biggest determiner is if it will be *healthy* to travel. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:06 1
  - and the discretionary income -- nm - Strongbad Apr 1, 11:08
- outside provinces and State travel will be creamed; but internal travel might help to offset local places -- nm - Beaker Apr 1, 11:05
- Youth will take it as a badge of honor to have survived, and party like there's no tomorrow, seniors will disappear from public -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:03 3
  - Not just youth. That vacation poll made me think that March Madness 2021 Vegas is going to have to be twice as big as normal - JD Apr 1, 11:21 1
    - I was thinking Vegastravaganza once they were back in business. I'm looking at places I can drive to rather than flying. -- nm - Meg Apr 1, 11:35
  - Main damper on international travel is 14 days quarantine, both ways -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 11:04
The comet Atlas is coming, should be visible by the end of April. It will be green and the comet of a generation -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 10:57 6
- Don't worry. Gerard Butler will save us -- nm - decline Apr 1, 11:03
- Uh oh. -- (link) - Spawn Apr 1, 10:58 [Backboard] 4
  - Nick Nolte is probably better at destroying comets anyway. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:11 1
    - nah we need Sean Connery! -- (link) - Remlik Apr 1, 11:13 [youtube]
  - Atlas shouldn't get closer than 72 million miles to Earth, but it is comforting to know that Gerard Butler did a training exercise -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 11:01
  - STX Films has stepped up their marketing. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 1, 10:59
Do you take Zantac for heartburn? Please read this. -- (link) - Diva Apr 1, 10:54 5
- I got a letter 6 months ago telling me if my Ranitidine prescription was from certain lot numbers, I had been exposed to a carcinogenic substance due -- (edited) - jnine Apr 1, 11:33
- That's been known for awhile. As someone for whom Ranitidine works (and nothing else seems to) haven't been able to find it for better part of a year - Cuzzin Todd Apr 1, 11:11
- I wonder when they ran their last tv ad. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 11:00 1
  - 30 seconds ago. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 11:08
- wow -- nm - prayformojo Apr 1, 10:56
Governor DeSantis issued the order to "Stay At Home," then 10 minutes later said "April Fools!" -- nmb - JaxSean Apr 1, 10:53 3
- Joyful hotdog boy! - Trisha Apr 1, 10:55
- This is not a stay at home order “it is an order to individuals to stay close to home.” It does not force non-essential businesses to close. -- (link) - ty97 Apr 1, 10:55 1
  - Yep, pretty much. (I also read that as www.twinknews.com.) -- nm - JaxSean Apr 1, 10:58

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