Pandemic updates 2.0

Every time an anti-vaxxers dies from COVID, America get a slight bump on the IQ scale. 

HogFather said:

Every time an anti-vaxxers dies from COVID, America get a slight bump on the IQ scale. 

Stole this from tw..."I hate to say it, but the COVID-19 pandemic is the ultimate life-and-death IQ test."

fishlessman said:

according to my medical records i am no longer caucasian, im now "not hispanic or latino".  how is this really not racist as well, cant i just list out my whole mixed breed status. french, english, irish, german, potuguese, Indigenous peoples (so ive been told)........

Were your ancestors from the Caucasus? Maybe they just made that designation up in the day… My nephew from Hispanica told me that.

If there's a race/culture/tribe name where all the people subside mostly on gin, that's a possibility.

I'm guessing the bride called off the wedding because she didn't buy the "my balls are swollen from the vaccine!" line from the fiancée.  

What a time to be alive.

nolaegghead said:

If there's a race/culture/tribe name where all the people subside mostly on gin, that's a possibility.

where  the fukahwee tribe, so that is a possibility

http://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1437583096849866765?s=20

Just the cost of the monoclonal antibody drug infusion is $1,250.00 not counting cost to administer it. The same places that give the infusion give chemotherapy for cancer. If they are doing one they can’t be doing the other. The cost of the vaccine is $20 to $33 per dose for the two shot mRNA varieties and $10 for the single J&J vaccine. All that is assuming not further care is required which is unlikely for the infusion patients but quite likely for vaccination break through cases which is again a small fraction. As I told someone once “math may make your head hurt but it doesn’t lie”.

fishlessman said:

im hearing that shipments of rebar are now out 1 year from placing the order. so much for any real infrastructure projects. sick of all the traffic from bridge repairs in the area anyways but no rebar is not a good sign for construction

I call bs on that.

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

im hearing that shipments of rebar are now out 1 year from placing the order. so much for any real infrastructure projects. sick of all the traffic from bridge repairs in the area anyways but no rebar is not a good sign for construction

I call bs on that.

i dont buy the stuff, just what i heard from an architect down the street that works with a concrete construction house. from my end with higher alloys, 310 is getting hard to find and 309 stainless is pretty much just usa product coming into the shop which i havent seen in years, looks to be about 30 percent higher than last year

 Reason I said bs was after I looked at rebar news.  Prices are still high, but people are eating it on futures and the prices have been trending down a little.  Base steel and material to make it prices are global, availability regional.  A year out from a vendor means he's not taking any more orders for a year (at least on a commodity material, special alloys and proprietary products are a different story).  A distributor can request an import shipment and pay the tariffs if they need it bad enough in much less than a year. 

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

im hearing that shipments of rebar are now out 1 year from placing the order. so much for any real infrastructure projects. sick of all the traffic from bridge repairs in the area anyways but no rebar is not a good sign for construction

I call bs on that.

i dont buy the stuff, just what i heard from an architect down the street that works with a concrete construction house. from my end with higher alloys, 310 is getting hard to find and 309 stainless is pretty much just usa product coming into the shop which i havent seen in years, looks to be about 30 percent higher than last year

 Reason I said bs was after I looked at rebar news.  Prices are still high, but people are eating it on futures and the prices have been trending down a little.  Base steel and material to make it prices are global, availability regional.  A year out from a vendor means he's not taking any more orders for a year (at least on a commodity material, special alloys and proprietary products are a different story).  A distributor can request an import shipment and pay the tariffs if they need it bad enough in much less than a year. 

not sure what it is in this particular case. was recently looking for 3 feet of a high temp alloy tube, china wanted to send a container full, found it in india but i think the guy wanted to charter a cruise boat to get it here, found round stock locally, i can make a tube

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1438297380080734209?s=20