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Wishing you all the Best in surviving this period. Sucks to be jobless and hope a decent focused on Americans rather than a free handout to the big businesses Pandemic package is passed by the house and senate and signed by the president to help those out that have been most affected.

@oldshurst442 Very true about the wide open spaces in Canada. You showed an aerial photo of a town named Chibougamau in Quebec. When you fly into YYZ or YUL from overseas and you have one of those video screens in front of you, you are likely to see Chicoutimi in Quebec on the monitor. I think it's a reference/radar point, since it's probably a small town. I like that name. I have to congratulate Americans, and the world, for their "never forget" posture regarding September 11, 2001. We're coming up on 19 years, so almost 2 decades. We cannot afford to forget. This current crisis makes for another "never forget" event. When we are able to get past this, they (pharma/medical community and governance) have to act proactively - vaccinations with broader coverage and plans in place to deal with triage events. We cannot afford to forget this event, either. Even before this all happened, I asked my doctor to include it in my last set of labs. I never knew what it is. I always assumed that it was a line item in the standard metabolic panel or complete count blood tests and I could look it up on my portal. It's not. It's a separate test. I was able to find out and will never have to ask again.

Type O+ blood here.

One reason I love these companies... When they're called upon they help deliver to their counties. "On Tuesday, Ford detailed extraordinary measures it's undertaking as the automaker ramps up efforts to support health care workers on the frontlines. The Blue Oval said it's already started 3D-printing face shields -- a critical piece of personal protective gear -- for health care workers to help protect them from the virus as they treat patients. The first 1,000 shields already shipped out to local Michigan hospitals for use. By the end of this week, Ford says it will have 75,000 shields complete, and 100,000 shields will roll out of two Ford facilities weekly thereafter. While work continues on face shields, Ford said it's teamed up with 3M and GE to support the design and manufacturing of respirator masks and life-saving ventilators. With 3M, Ford told its engineers to get scrappy and creative, and they delivered. " More details in the link. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-coronavirus-face-shields-3m-respirators-ge-ventilators/ "The automaker said Friday evening it will collaborate with Ventec Life Systems to help scale up and build life-saving ventilators. GM itself won't be building the machines, but the automaker will lend its logistics, purchasing and manufacturing expertise to Ventec as it ramps up production." https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/general-motors-ventilators-ventec-coronavirus-spread/ "Italian-U.S. car giant Fiat Chrysler has confirmed plans to produce a million face masks a month and said it will distribute them to emergency services in North America to help the fight against coronavirus. FCA, which is also trying to help produce badly needed respirators for patients in intensive care in Italy, is one of a number of large manufacturers adapting production lines to make products in desperately short supply." https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/24/fia-chrysler-face-masks-ventilators/

Right, U.S. doctors said we would have a jump in cases because of tests being completed, but Spain jumped significantly like overnight that's gotta be pretty alarming for them. Ours should level out hopefully soon then drop off. Just stay home as much as possible people, we will beat this bastard bug.

You know... for the fun of it...

Love the Grumpy Cat. Thanks a lot.

Thank you. Been told both are temporary, I hope so! Really bummed about my friend though.... I want everyone to be safe and healthy!!

Had my updated Influenza shot in 2019 during my yearly physical. So while I do not know my blood type, with my workouts, healthy eating for the most part and keeping social distance, I think I am doing good. Only thing that sucks is a family history of high cholesterol. I have mine under control lucky for me. Hopefully I can resist the little corona virus bug. Squash it out.

Thank you. I hope they are both there when this craziness ends. I plan on updating my resume (something shamefully I need to do) just in case it does not happen. Need to be prepared either way. On happier news my old car buddy has improved quite a bit in the last six hours-not out of the woods yet- but quite an improvement! Trying hard to look at the positives, and counting my blessings as well.

Seems Men and Type A Blood are the most common for getting sick and dying. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus Seems men more than woman are hit hard and JHM has not figured out why but some men end up sterile. https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31265159/men-coronavirus/ Italy is 3 out of every 4 cases are men compared to China where 106 men to every 100 woman are struck with the virus. Course in older individuals, more men again. I think young men need to be very careful if you want kids, protect the family jewels.

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/24/tesla-bought-ventilators-from-china-shipped-to-united-states/ Musk donates 1000 ventilators to California hospitals

If the buyer spent $10,000 on each, they lost the same amount(excluding the exact dollar amount). Nobody invests by buying a share quantity. They tell their broker how much to invest and they buy the closest whole share quantity to the dollar amount. Ferrari isn't a part of FCA, they're their own company. Lookup stock symbol RACE. I'm just way more confident in Cadillac or Lincoln totally botching a 200k luxury car than I would be in Bentley. Yes, experience and past execution..and don't give me that 1930's Cadillac's adjusted for inflation prices crap because none of those people are still employed at GM.

We are saying the same thing! And yes...we as in in Canada, Spain, the US...we are all testing more and we are finding out that more of us are infected. No symptoms... The thing is, I think, is that some if us will react to it very violently, and for those that will react very violently, if we have some sort of weakness, we will suffer and worse case scenario, die. The myth that young folk dont suffer, is well a myth. The myth has started because most older folk die from it. Because being older MAY mean that the older person has some sort of weaker immune system, or whatever and that is why they perish. Younger folk are usually more fit and have stronger immune systems than babies and older folk. And we misinterpret that as to say that young folk are invincible.... Young folk could and do suffer from Covid-19. And Im sure there have been some young folk to die from it too. Those that their bodies could not fight it. And THAT is what it boils down to. Covid-19 is deadly to those with weak immune systems or respiratory problems. ESPECIALLY those with respiratory problems. PS: Not everybody will suffer from it. Some will. Some wont. If you have some sort of respiratory problem, God help you.

Yes! 100% Hopefully. But staying home does NOT defeat it. It helps to curb the transmissions and easing the hospitalizations and therefore giving the nurses and doctors a chance to breathe a little (pun intended) while taking care of the folk that are really having a hard time coping with it.

Spain did have a big jump in confirmed; 6300, but the US had a bigger one: 10,100. These numbers are not virus transmissions, but confirmation of having it. Infected numbers in all cases are higher. Still, Spain has 751 cases / million people, the U.S. has 132. But Spain's population is only 46 million. Does that at all mean the U.S. will grow to 750 cases/million? No. Spain 91 people /square kilometer, the U.S. is only 36/sq kilometer. So many variables it's really tough to make any comparisons.

With low oil prices again, and we dont know how long the Saudis want to do this, and Ive heard the Saudis wanna keep it low for a good long while, Im willing to bet that EV sales are gonna be shyte in the short term. The only thing that will save EVs this time around is that countries are not gonna budge on the banning of ICE vehicles. Or at the very least, the countries wont lax on the emissions regulations. I say, GM better keep the Camaro alive with its V8 because I might go crazy with this Covid-19 thing and maybe I spin into a mid-life/Covid-19 crisis and buy me-self a ZL-1 Camaro, ship it to Trans Am Depot and they fix me up good. Like this one. Exactly like this one down below!!!

Whichever lost the lower percentage.

Martha Stewart still drives her MANUAL DB9 https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31899306/martha-stewart-aston-martin/ Respect!

Oh, we are going to get the S*** smashed out of us thanks to the "spring breakers" and all the folks who refuse to grow up and go out and have a "good" time... We can easily 20x the amount we have now...... Sadly, I found out an old car friend (not on this site) is dying of Covid 19.......... Add to the fact I went from 2 to 0 jobs today just made it worse My world is nightmare now........