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Yes they are but good luck getting a hold of a bank to have them cancel automatic deduction. 3-4 hour wait times on the phone and then disconnect.

Nearly my entire family is laid off at this moment. They are struggling to pay their bills and get unemployment. I basically had to do it for my mom as she is technologically illiterate. My dad has a house in the city in which he rents. Both tenants are refusing to pay rent for 3 months and my dads mortgage payment is still due. This mess has to end.

Trumps interview is hilarious. He's really confident this will have no affect on anything in the fall. He is delusional.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-conditioning-spread-coronavirus-restaurant-can-service-industry-open-again-2020-4?utm_source=reddit.com

Lets open up. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective

Early antibody testing suggests COVID-19 infections in L.A. County greatly exceed documented cases https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-testing-results-covid-19-infections-los-angeles-county/

This is important. Until now the first US #COVID19 death was thought to be Feb 29th, Seattle WA https://t.co/ziFslDHShl But now autopsy (and @CDCgov) confirmation of 2 deaths in California Feb 6 and 17th. >3 weeks earlier than previously known. https://t.co/9hRGJp0QZg — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 22, 2020

I've seen 2-3 large home parties in my neighborhood every weekend. Gyms, restaurants, movies, schools, work, are the 5 main places people transmit germs. If we open up all of those what happens?

Or as we found out yesterday there are 30 different strains and some are more deadly than others.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year. So far we're at 177,000 globally from COVID 19 in a 2-3 month window. Project that out annually and we're slightly above how many flu deaths we get in a bad season. Although you have to take into account social distancing and the entire world being on lockdown. They are also including basically anyone that has the virus as a death even if the result could have been something else. I think in the end this might not end up being too much more deadly than a bad flu season. If I had to guess, I would say COVID 19 is twice as deadly as the flu after all is said and done.

Never going to happen. If this last past June 1st we will see so many protests. No one will listen to stay at home orders in July/August in WNY. We get 3 months of summer here.

If restrictions lifted https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/federal-documents-more-than-300000-likely-to-die-if-restrictions-are-lifted/ Interesting article from 1929 depression that not many people died due to a bad economy. https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-expectancy There are no firm answers as to why Americans lived longer during the worst years of the depression, but scholars have made some suggestions. Take traffic deaths: Car use increased during the 1920s, and with it, so too did traffic-related deaths. One possible explanation for their decline in the 1930s is that, with higher rates of unemployment, there were just fewer people on the road. Fewer people could afford to own cars, too—as demonstrated by a famous picture (above) of a man trying to sell his car after losing his money on the stock market. There’s also research suggesting that during U.S. economic expansions, people smoke more, experience more stress and get less sleep. All these factors can have a negative impact on health. This could apply not just to the Great Depression, but other economic downturns in the 20th century. In 2018, Tapia co-authored another paper in the American Journal of Epidemiology that looked at data from 1985 to 2011, a period that covered three recessions. “What we found in this paper is that a number of things that are usually thought about unemployed people—well, apparently they are not true,” he says. Although the unemployed people in the study had higher levels of depression, they had lower blood pressure on average. They also did not smoke or drink more than employed people. In fact, Tapia notes that cigarette sales have historically risen when the economy is doing well and declined when it is not.

That was paywalled. CDC director says a second wave of coronavirus in the winter could hit the US harder than the current outbreak https://www.businessinsider.com/2nd-coronavirus-wave-could-us-harder-than-current-outbreak-cdc-director-2020-4

Help https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/21/coronavirus-secondwave-cdcdirector/

2,551 deaths and counting today. Likely the worse day so far. We're going to go way over 100k deaths in USA from this with social distancing. That's pretty crazy.

This would explain why California has not been impacted as much as the Northeast

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8237849/Coronavirus-mutated-Strains-evolved-far-deadlier-spread-Europe-New-York.html

Brutal.

Erie County has reached a new daily high for the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said Tuesday.

I guess because I disputed the transaction before the flight, they treated that as canceling the flight and issued me a travel certificate. So it looks like I'm not getting my refund after all...I never technically canceled my flight and a dispute should not be the same as canceling the flight. I'm on hold for a supervisor right now. I mean I still plan to go to New Zealand so it's not terrible, but hate being forced with a timeline in my travel itinerary. If I waited for April 10th and United canceled the flight I would have gotten a full refund...

I used chases travel portal, but yes directly through United. Air New Zealand already credited me back and I did them the same way.

Read that Reddit article I posted. The DOT states an airline has to issue a refund if they cancel the flight. By law we are 100% entitled to full refund.

These are the 2 emails United sent to me. They are now only offering a flight credit. They must have ran out of money? Thank you for reaching out to us for information on a recent charge. We show the credit cardholder has disputed the charge directly with the credit card company. For further information regarding the dispute, please contact the credit card company. We appreciate your support and we thank you for choosing United Airlines. Sincerely, United Refunds We've processed the refund today. If your ticket was purchased using a credit card please allow 7-10 business days for the credit to post to your account. For check payments, please allow sufficient time for the check delivery. You may also view the refund details using the Check Refund Status link below and enter the 13-digit ticket number or 8-digit Request ID listed above. Thank you for the opportunity to assist you and we look forward to welcoming you on a future United Airlines flight. Sincerely,

So it looks like United is not agreeing to refund me my money now, they went back on their email. I'm not even sure that is legal. I came across this reddit article for anyone trying to get a refund. I have to call their refund dept between 9-4 tomorrow for clarification.

As pegulas money is 90% in oil/gas I don't think the Bills and Sabres can spend unlimited money now. He must have lost a fortune. The "I'll just drill another well" if I need money is a thing of the past.