Chucktshoes
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The wife and I took one on our honeymoon. We enjoyed it.I just don't like thing, Chuck!
Germ invested giant toilets sailing around our seas. Blech.
The wife and I took one on our honeymoon. We enjoyed it.I just don't like thing, Chuck!
Germ invested giant toilets sailing around our seas. Blech.
What’s y’all’s beef with cruises?
I've honestly never been on one. They don't intrigue me. I don't like being told what to do. And I feel like cruise ships tell you when you can go onto the island and when you must leave. I like to explore the hidden gems of where I'm visiting.The wife and I took one on our honeymoon. We enjoyed it.
Wow, there has been 6 pages added to this thread while I was on a zoom call.
Had the above article been posted yet?
What’s y’all’s beef with cruises?
I don’t have beef with the first part, but the second part is definitely a problem. It’s a problem because of the first part.One thing that I don't like is that they avoid taxes - all sail under a tax shelter countries flag - yet are part of the stimulus package.
Anyone I know who has lived in a prominent cruise destination despised them. Obnoxious loud entitled tourists who get dropped off, clog the city, spend no money in the local economy and then disappear. We have an equal issue in rural Ireland with foreign tourists on bus tours from the cities, mainly Dublin. Anyone if you come here and want to see rural Ireland outside the main city you’re staying in please visit the places properly and come stay in the hotel, buy dinner in the restaurant, drink in the pub and invest in the local economy of the place you are invading.
100% this
My favorite thing about cruises is that their existence allowed DFW to write this piece in Harpers to anyone looking for a good read you could do a hell of a lot worse than David Foster Wallace.The wife and I took one on our honeymoon. We enjoyed it.
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massively downgraded projection of the potential deathtoll on Wednesday.
Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.
However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments, as reported by New Scientist Wednesday.
Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.
Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Downgrades Projection
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massively downgraded projection of the potential...www.dailywire.com
Essentially 1/2 of people who test positive never show any symptoms. This drastically cuts back projects of worst case scenarios.
As a Texan and San Antonio residentThis is fascinating. If only most companies, or even our government, were as aware, proactive, and interested in being prepared as Howard E Butt's stores.
Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)www.texasmonthly.com