Brad

I was never a big fan of working from home as I found I was more disciplined at the office. Moreover, I was 10 minutes max driving time from the office. Of course, I’m retired now, so it doesn’t matter!

I used to live in that neck of the woods; went to law school at WNEC.

The most famous in my book.

I’m not sure how much credence we should give to the research in question as the article states that: “The results are based on lab experiments in which a small number of animals were deliberately infected with high doses of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and do not represent real-life interactions between people and their pets, says virologist Linda Saif at The Ohio State University in Columbus.”

Cool story indeed.

Rafael Gomez Nieto, a survivor of the Spanish Civil War and a member of a French unit (principality composed of veterans of the Spanish Civil War) that entered Paris in 1944, has died of the Coronavirus at the age of 99. Rest in Peace. Descansa en paz. Rafael Gómez Nieto, Last Member of Unit That Helped Liberate Paris, Dies at 99

The New York City school system has decided to move away from Zoom to Microsoft Teams because of these issues, https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/us/nyc-schools-zoom-online-security/index.html

Due to the critical stories they’ve received, I’m sure they’ve probably improved, although I’m going to take a wait and see attitude for now. A better system seems to be WebEx but I was outvoted, and so it goes. The book wasn’t very exciting anyway

The book club that I belong to was obviously not meeting but has decided to try to get things going again by using Zoom. I’ve decided to pass.

If you’re using or thinking about Zoom, I suggest you read this article. A Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People’s LinkedIn Profiles

Her point about society turning violent is something I see as a real possibility the longer this goes on, especially when benefits run out for people who don’t have savings.

Car dealers do that all the time. Of course, we are talking about car dealers

RIP. I saw him play a few times out here in New Jersey.

Wow! What a shame. RIP.

Well, Downtown is a great song. I still like it.

Now that the President and the medical experts have warned that the next two weeks will be bad, I think hoarding is taking place again so people don’t have to leave their house. As an example, we were at BJs on Monday and, among other things, we purchased a couple of extra cases of cat food. She went online this morning to see about buying some more and it was all gone, not to mention paper towels and the like.

Martial law, in its simplest terms, is the imposition of military rule and the suspension of the operation of laws. Apparently, we’ve had that happen a few times, according to this Wikipedia article, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_States Although the right of habeas corpus was suspended during the Civil War, there was not universal martial law in the US. If the President ordered a national lockdown, I don’t believe that would involve the suspension of most laws. Although I haven’t practiced bankruptcy law in many years, if a bank went bankrupt, you’d be a creditor of the bankrupt bank. However, I can’t see that the Feds would ever allow a bank of Capital One’s size to go under. Even during the mortgage crisis, most investment banks that were in trouble like Bear Stearns were acquired by someone else, with the notable exception of Lehman Brothers.

None needed Dmitry

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I embedded my answers in bold. Just delete the posts and any replies. That’s not difficult. I used to be a moderator and am willing to do that again, if you all are interested.

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Stocks tanking have nothing to do with the companies themselves but investors being very nervous. Investors crave predictability and right now nothing is stable.

The Coronavirus seems to have accelerated the USPS’ troubles: they may have to cease operations in June: “With a negative net worth of $65 billion and an additional $140 billion in unfunded liabilities, the USPS originally expected to run out of liquidity by 2021 without intervention. That has accelerated rapidly because of COVID-19. Fewer people and businesses are sending mail because of the outbreak, which could hasten the decline of the Postal Service and close its doors as early as June, officials warned.” USPS warns it might have to shutter by June as $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package provides no funding