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| Topic | Coronavirus 16: Untitled |
| Scorsese2002 04/12/20 6:08:40 PM #209 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 16: Untitled |
| Scorsese2002 04/10/20 11:43:48 AM #96 | |
| Topic | Bar owner removes $3,714 worth of bills stapled to walls to give to employees |
| Scorsese2002 04/10/20 10:52:33 AM #1 | https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/sand-bar-dollar-bills-donation-trnd/index.html (CNN) - Before the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Knox would walk into her bar and soak in the sounds of people chatting while sipping on their drinks and listening to local musicians strum along on their guitars. Now, her restaurant, The Sand Bar -- located in Tybee Island, Georgia -- is quiet, with no customers or employees in sight. Like many other restaurants, The Sand Bar had to close its doors after officials put stay-at-home orders in place and mandated restaurants switch to takeout and delivery only. The restrictions, put in place to help control the spread of the virus, also left businesses -- including Knox's -- struggling financially. As she sat in her empty bar at the end of March and looked around, she realized there was an opportunity to help her now unemployed staff. "We were sitting there doors locked and I'm like oh my gosh, 'there's money on the walls and we have time on our hands," she told CNN, referring to the bar's decor. "'We gotta get this money down.'" For nearly 15 years, patrons have been leaving their mark on the island bar by writing on a dollar bill and stapling it on the walls and ceilings. Knox just celebrated her six-year anniversary of owning the bar. Knox, who worked as a bartender at the bar for seven years before owning it, now runs the bar with her mother, Pam Hessler. "I can't just sit here and do nothing," Knox said of the decision to take down the dollar bills to try and help her employees. "I'll do what I can for my people." Over the next three and a half days, five volunteers took on the tedious task to help gently take down the weathered money. Some bills had dozens of staples in them, according to Knox. Some of the currency came from countries across the globe. After the bills were taken down, it took about a week and a half to clean them off and get them counted. In total, $3,714 were collected and the stacks of bills stretched in piles across the entire bar counter top. After hearing about Knox's act of giving back, several customers donated to the cause. In total, Knox was able to distribute $4,104 to her staff. Four bartenders and two musicians each were given $600, she said. Tybee Island, one of Georgia's most popular vacation destinations, depends on beachgoers to keep the town's economy alive. The town has a population of about 3,000 people. Knox said that March was the beginning of their busy season coming out of winter. Now, like everywhere else, their business is on hold, and Knox remains unsure of what the future holds. In the spirit of giving, one of the bartenders decided to donate her portion to another Tybee Island bartender. Knox wants to continue to give back to the small island's service staff. She is still collecting donations to distribute. "We all look out for each other," she said. "We are all in this together." Knox said she is hopeful that The Sand Bar will reopen when all is over. When patrons do return to have a cold beverage after relaxing on the beach, they'll notice a fresh coat of bright colored paint replaced the wallpaper of dollar bills. While Knox is unsure if the stapling of the money on the walls will continue, she said she is thinking of a different plan for customers to leave their mark. --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus 16: Untitled |
| Scorsese2002 04/09/20 11:19:11 AM #55 | |
| Topic | Trump signs document to mine the moon |
| Scorsese2002 04/09/20 10:42:52 AM #33 | |
| Topic | How is your Game of the Decade bracket looking so far? |
| Scorsese2002 04/09/20 10:29:50 AM #1 | |
| Topic | My job finally cut our hours damn near in half! |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 11:10:49 PM #11 | MI4 REAL posted...
Plus the faster you pull product you get incentive so I always max out my extra $2 an hour, one of the only ones in the warehouse that takes advantage of that, fuck it more $$$ for me --- |
| Topic | My job finally cut our hours damn near in half! |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 8:30:36 PM #9 | MI4 REAL posted... I'd love to be bored during my hours. not a chance. Cant do that, shift goes by too slow doing nothing, always wanna keep moving --- |
| Topic | My job finally cut our hours damn near in half! |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 8:28:39 PM #7 | Trigg3rH4ppy posted... Yeah fuck all that. I don't even work 40 a week and it's too much lol I work night so all those hours, while can get tiring, aint shit to do anyways --- |
| Topic | My job finally cut our hours damn near in half! |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 8:27:24 PM #6 | Raises even got postponed until June....2% raise or 5-days Vacation smfh --- |
| Topic | My job finally cut our hours damn near in half! |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 8:20:31 PM #1 | Instead of our usual 50-60 in 4 days, starting 4/20 well be work 4/8s Work in the pet food/supply industry and orders have fallen off a cliff so I was expecting fewer hours but didnt expect that much of a cut, at least 4/10s Gonna last until July, gonna look into partial unemployment I guess --- |
| Topic | Growing up I thought Cory and Topanga were couple goals. I realize I was wrong. |
| Scorsese2002 04/08/20 1:56:01 PM #18 | SMAP- posted... Amy and Alan, forever tvs best parents Dan/Roseanne or Tim/Jill --- |
| Topic | I really miss the days before smartphones... |
| Scorsese2002 04/07/20 6:40:13 PM #46 | |
| Topic | What is your favorite conspiracy theory? |
| Scorsese2002 04/07/20 6:39:07 PM #1 | |
| Topic | PS5 controller: DualSense |
| Scorsese2002 04/07/20 4:35:47 PM #27 | |
| Topic | Hate when you miss out on Amazon price drops.... |
| Scorsese2002 04/07/20 2:15:21 PM #1 | Ordered the Yakuza Remastered Day One Collection the other day at full price and see today it dropped $20.....grrrr! --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus 15: The Long Night |
| Scorsese2002 04/05/20 6:16:23 PM #182 | |
| Topic | The color of your shirt and last thing you ate is your new rapper name. |
| Scorsese2002 04/05/20 10:02:40 AM #94 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 15: The Long Night |
| Scorsese2002 04/05/20 9:53:25 AM #103 | White House: Americans should avoid grocery shopping as coronavirus hits apex https://tinyurl.com/ulno8so --- |
| Topic | G.W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late' |
| Scorsese2002 04/05/20 9:41:01 AM #1 | https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. He couldn't put it down. When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and gave her the galley of historian John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza," which told the chilling tale of the mysterious plague that "would kill more people than the outbreak of any other disease in human history." "You've got to read this," Fran Townsend remembers the president telling her. "He said, 'Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy.'" Thus was born the nation's most comprehensive pandemic plan -- a playbook that included diagrams for a global early warning system, funding to develop new, rapid vaccine technology, and a robust national stockpile of critical supplies, such as face masks and ventilators, Townsend said. The effort was intense over the ensuing three years, including exercises where cabinet officials gamed out their responses, but it was not sustained. Large swaths of the ambitious plan were either not fully realized or entirely shelved as other priorities and crises took hold. But elements of that effort have formed the foundation for the national response to the coronavirus pandemic underway right now. "Despite politics, despite changes, when a crisis hits, you pull what you've got off the shelf and work from there," Townsend said. When Bush first told his aides he wanted to focus on the potential of a global pandemic, many of them harbored doubts. "My reaction was -- I'm buried. I'm dealing with counterterrorism. Hurricane season. Wildfires. I'm like, 'What?'" Townsend said. "He said to me, 'It may not happen on our watch, but the nation needs the plan.'" Over the ensuing months, cabinet officials got behind the idea. Most of them had governed through the Sept. 11 terror attacks, so events considered unlikely but highly-impactful had a certain resonance. "There was a realization that it's no longer fantastical to raise scenarios about planes falling from the sky, or anthrax arriving in the mail," said Tom Bossert, who worked in the Bush White House and went on to serve as Homeland Security secretary in the Trump administration. "It was not a novel. It was the world we were living." According to Bossert, who is now an ABC News consultant, Bush did not just insist on preparation for a pandemic. He was obsessed with it. "He was completely taken by the reality that that was going to happen," Bossert said. In a November 2005 speech at the National Institutes of Health, Bush laid out proposals in granular detail -- describing with stunning prescience how a pandemic in the United States would unfold. Among those in the audience was Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leader of the current crisis response, who was then and still is now the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire," Bush said at the time. "If caught early it might be extinguished with limited damage. If allowed to smolder, undetected, it can grow to an inferno that can spread quickly beyond our ability to control it." The president recognized that an outbreak was a different kind of disaster than the ones the federal government had been designed to address. "To respond to a pandemic, we need medical personnel and adequate supplies of equipment," Bush said. "In a pandemic, everything from syringes to hospital beds, respirators masks and protective equipment would be in short supply." Bush told the gathered scientists that they would need to develop a vaccine in record time. "If a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine on line quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain," he said. Bush set out to spend $7 billion building out his plan. His cabinet secretaries urged their staffs to take preparations seriously. The government launched a website, www.pandemicflu.gov, that is still in use today. But as time passed, it became increasingly difficult to justify the continued funding, staffing and attention, Bossert said. "You need to have annual budget commitment. You need to have institutions that can survive any one administration. And you need to have leadership experience," Bossert said. "All three of those can be effected by our wonderful and unique form of government in which you transfer power every four years." Bush declined, through a spokesman, to comment on the unfolding crisis or discuss the current response. But his remarks from 15 years ago still resonate. "If we wait for a pandemic to appear," he warned, "it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today." . . . Prophet --- |
| Topic | PUBG for $10? |
| Scorsese2002 04/04/20 9:19:28 AM #1 | Never played it but see a price drop on Amazon for a physical copy, been wanting to see what the hype is about. Still got a online following I assume?? --- |
| Topic | Was Joker the best movie of 2019? |
| Scorsese2002 04/04/20 9:05:26 AM #38 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 15: The Long Night |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 11:57:56 PM #14 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 3:10:33 PM #467 | |
| Topic | RIP Bill Withers |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 11:20:23 AM #7 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 10:32:26 AM #452 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 2:41:09 AM #429 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/03/20 2:36:21 AM #426 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 11:07:28 PM #422 | |
| Topic | BREAKING: Ugly Ellie and Last of Us II delayed INDEFINITELY. |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 8:28:11 PM #36 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 8:19:55 PM #391 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 5:41:06 PM #384 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 5:39:39 PM #383 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 12:53:52 PM #314 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 12:30:34 PM #303 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/02/20 10:56:35 AM #286 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 04/01/20 8:10:51 PM #212 | |
| Topic | Can you still get items from Amazon...? |
| Scorsese2002 04/01/20 1:08:04 PM #13 | |
| Topic | China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says |
| Scorsese2002 04/01/20 1:06:54 PM #1 | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-concealed-extent-virus-outbreak-151550902.html (Bloomberg) -- China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths its suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that Chinas public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that Chinas numbers are fake. The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials said. The outbreak began in Chinas Hubei province in late 2019, but the country has publicly reported only about 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That compares to more than 189,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths in the U.S., which has the largest publicly reported outbreak in the world. Communications staff at the White House and Chinese embassy in Washington didnt immediately respond to requests for comment. While China eventually imposed a strict lockdown beyond those of less autocratic nations, there has been considerable skepticism of Chinas reported numbers, both outside and within the country. The Chinese government has repeatedly revised its methodology for counting cases, for weeks excluding people without symptoms entirely, and only on Tuesday added more than 1,500 asymptomatic cases to its total. Stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have driven public doubt in Beijings reporting. Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that Chinas public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus. The medical community made -- interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected, she said at a news conference on Tuesday. Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain. China is not the only country with suspect public reporting. Western officials have pointed to Iran, Russia, Indonesia and especially North Korea, which has not reported a single case of the disease, as probable under-counts. Others including Saudi Arabia and Egypt may also be playing down their numbers. U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has publicly urged China and other nations to be transparent about their outbreaks. He has repeatedly accused China of covering up the extent of the problem and being slow to share information, especially in the weeks after the virus first emerged, and blocking offers of help from American experts. This data set matters, he said at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday. The development of medical therapies and public-health measures to combat the virus so that we can save lives depends on the ability to have confidence and information about what has actually transpired, he said. I would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information, he said. Were doing that. --- |
| Topic | 18-wheeler hauling toilet paper crashes in Texas |
| Scorsese2002 04/01/20 11:54:41 AM #1 | https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/01/truck-hauling-toilet-paper-crashes-texas-flames-fire-tp-big-rig-18-wheeler-tractor-trailer-wreck/ An 18-wheeler hauling toilet paper across the country crashed and went up in flames on a Texas interstate ... and reams of priceless rolls ended up as roadkill. The crazy scene unfolded on Interstate 20 early Wednesday morning, when the driver of the tractor-trailer lost control of the rig ... flipping the truck on its side and spilling the precious cargo. The trailer loaded with commercial TP was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. The crash created a huge traffic snarl during rush hour -- people are still apparently out on the roads in Dallas -- as crews worked to clear the smoldering wreckage. FYI ... Texas does not have a mandatory stay-at-home order. The good news ... both the driver and his pooch were not hurt. --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 03/31/20 12:20:56 PM #76 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 03/31/20 2:10:03 AM #46 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 14: Extended Edition |
| Scorsese2002 03/30/20 11:11:13 PM #33 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| Scorsese2002 03/30/20 2:17:00 PM #443 | twitterfriends posted...
Few hrs on the phone to get 3k back seems worth it imo --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| Scorsese2002 03/30/20 1:59:48 PM #438 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| Scorsese2002 03/30/20 1:59:11 PM #437 | twitterfriends posted...
Took an L on 3k? Fuck that noise --- |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| Scorsese2002 03/30/20 12:58:47 PM #421 | |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| Scorsese2002 03/29/20 12:41:52 PM #260 | |
| Topic | Anyone else watching Tiger King on Netflix? |
| Scorsese2002 03/29/20 2:13:27 AM #44 | Havent seen it, but tired of fuckin hearing about it I might check it out when the hype dies down --- |
| Topic | Notice how there are no cases being reported from North Korea |
| Scorsese2002 03/27/20 1:42:09 PM #2 | |
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