More like, the rest of the country never really started. With travel turned down

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Apr 2, 2020
4:38:08pm

Benfica1 Truly Addicted User

More like, the rest of the country never really started. With travel turned down

and people generally staying home, I don't know if most rural or suburban areas are going to get hit. Currently, there are only really 5-6 cities getting hammered (leading off with NYC and neighboring NJ... both of which started way late on the 'social distancing').

And yes, it is wishful thinking. You're probably closer to reality. But,....

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Just got off leadership call with my company. Prepare for the long haul folks.

Tare

4/2/20 3:48pm

I'm gonna go on record and say that won't happen

Backcountry

4/2/20 3:49pm

Whatever. It's going come at us wave after wave after wave until it takes us all.

SpiffCoug

4/2/20 3:50pm

RE: Whatever. It's going come at us wave after wave after wave until it takes us

Misteak

4/2/20 4:01pm

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cougaman

4/2/20 8:49pm

RE: Whatever. It's going come at us wave after wave after wave until it takes us

cougaman

4/2/20 8:49pm

Great song! “Are we so helpless against the time!?”

RUNBYU1

4/2/20 9:53pm

against the *tide

Misteak

4/2/20 10:05pm

Man it'd be nice to as smart as you.

mendoncoug

4/2/20 8:32pm

I appreciate that. Thank you for the kind words.

Backcountry

4/2/20 9:10pm

I believe modern medicine will have an answer before then

Hoax

4/2/20 3:50pm

Sorry if you've already posted somewhere, but what do you do? Interested to know

m0resn0w

4/2/20 3:51pm

Sells panic and hopelessness.

Benfica1

4/2/20 4:07pm

Fortune 500 financial services company

Tare

4/2/20 4:08pm

What they are really saying is prepare for a lot of layoffs

4/2/20 5:47pm

okay, so the Tare's are separating themselves from us...

Cougarclaw

4/2/20 3:52pm

Hardest I've laughed at a CB post for a long long time.

jkccoug

4/2/20 3:58pm

Because your leadership says so, it's going to happen?

LifeLongLakerFan

4/2/20 3:52pm

Absent discovery of a cure, I think you are right

4/2/20 3:53pm

They must not have heard the news yet that an immunization is now in human trial phase.

4/2/20 3:54pm

Vaccine? March 2021 at the earliest.

Oatmeal

4/2/20 5:44pm

No, absolutely no. It is one thing to give a sick patient a medication that

doctorcoug

4/2/20 6:23pm

Surely there is time that could be reduced in this situation.

antiyewt

4/2/20 8:44pm

Change your first sentence with “would” instead of “could”

BYU '80

4/2/20 9:38pm

Right?

antiyewt

4/2/20 9:52pm

I said nothing about keeping everything closed. I only said that a vaccine is

doctorcoug

4/2/20 10:11pm

What does “this thing will be in and out...” mean, actually?

antiyewt

4/2/20 10:30pm

Herd immunity from infection will lower the R0 to the pandemic ending.

doctorcoug

4/2/20 11:16pm

Is your company the CDC?

Indy Coug

4/2/20 3:55pm

I think that companies who have a lot of employees that can effectively work

Duke Silver

4/2/20 3:55pm

I think alot of companies will increase teleworking. It will decrease commute

Powerbait DPM studnt

4/2/20 8:28pm

Does your company sell emergency preparedness items?

PJMort

4/2/20 3:55pm

Or gold?

franklyvulgar

4/2/20 3:59pm

The virus could stick around that long

Negative Equity

4/2/20 3:55pm

The leadership team at my company says things too. They are usually wrong.

RealComfortableJeans

4/2/20 3:56pm

A vaccine will hopefully be available sooner than 18 months. Now work from

Ironhide

4/2/20 3:57pm

I very much doubt it gets that bad. Just my opinion.

jkccoug

4/2/20 3:57pm

I don't know how to predict but I suspect we may see a dip in summer

Archaea

4/2/20 4:01pm

Wait, are you saying I bought all that ammo and toilet paper for nothing?

antiyewt

4/2/20 10:59pm

If this happens then nobody will have a job or money to purchase what your

Ojiisan

4/2/20 4:03pm

Yes correct. No money. We will be in bread lines.

shammy

4/2/20 10:17pm

And your company knows this how? Or just speculating worst case scenarios?

cougarnerd

4/2/20 4:07pm

I imagine worst-case scenarios. I ran one for our company out to next Spring

RealComfortableJeans

4/2/20 4:12pm

absent a vaccine, and cheap fast testing, maybe.

bald man

4/2/20 4:12pm

That site people keep referencing saying that we will hit peak deaths in two

Josef K

4/2/20 4:16pm

NYC, NJ, Chicago, Atlanta, NO and parts of Florida are the current problems. I

Benfica1

4/2/20 4:21pm

I think it is very wishful thinking to think the rest of the country has peaked

Josef K

4/2/20 4:35pm

More like, the rest of the country never really started. With travel turned down

Benfica1

4/2/20 4:38pm

Why? Not everywhere in the world is Northern Italy or NYC. We're not all

Memmo

4/2/20 6:41pm

Heard many times on CB: ‘We aren’t ____’

Josef K

4/2/20 8:26pm

You haven’t read any of his posts before apparently

BYU '80

4/2/20 9:41pm

It’s not hard if you stop and think about how test availability has ramped up.

antiyewt

4/2/20 9:53pm

And you have such a tendency for being optimistic through all of this

BYU '80

4/2/20 9:40pm

Huge surprise. This guy predicts doomsday. Economy shut off for 18 mos = ruin

shammy

4/2/20 10:19pm

Well good news, if this lasts longer than 4 months nobody will have to worry...

Coug

4/2/20 4:20pm

Correct. Gotta factor that in at some point

shammy

4/2/20 10:20pm

People will move to "survival of the fittest" stage well before 18 months pass

BYUFootballisBack

4/2/20 4:43pm

The good news is we will all be killed by COVID before then

D.T. Survivor

4/2/20 4:48pm

We are not staying at home until the virus goes away - thats not the goal!

savagecougar

4/2/20 6:02pm

I've seen no real indication that officials are really even looking for a time

fattycoug

4/2/20 6:14pm

Clearly none of them have the guts to do it

BYU '80

4/2/20 9:43pm

That's all reasonable, but doesn't seem to be what's happening. Which

Memmo

4/2/20 6:46pm

RE: That's all reasonable, but doesn't seem to be what's happening. Which

savagecougar

4/2/20 9:45pm

I could see an impact that long -

Swish

4/2/20 7:02pm

do you work for Jesus?

Mayor of Cougartown

4/2/20 7:50pm

RE: do you work for Jesus?

Tare

4/2/20 8:01pm

Goldman Sachs sees a 19% rebound in Q3, I’d trust GS over your firm

VballDad

4/2/20 10:47pm

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