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If we can for one moment disregard logic for actual scientific fact, social distancing is viral containment 101, one of the first steps necessary to slow/stop the spreading/incident rate. This has been known for centuries. Interesting to see how many people are more concerned about the economy than the spread. If there was a calm, calculated approach to such a crisis, then panic/recession talk would be more limited than they are now. This has basically been a global practice run for any virus with a real threat. If we were to be grading that effort, it would be a solid, capitalized, F. Big time failure when nations are putting the ecomony/politics ahead of Human health. A lot of people seem to have the attitude since they are not the demographic affected, then why care? There is a big difference between being prepared and acting calm in the face of adversity. Also, no one can say that the next virus wont prefer kids or old people, but humans that are relatively healthy between 25-60. Classic NIMBY thinking that leads to the chaos we see. As a nation, we should have responded immediately without care for what the reaction may do to investors sentiments. That is just the scientist in me. rant over.

My opinion is that hoarding boys briefs for investment purposes crosses a line that I personally don't want to cross.

they had a deal going which ended last saturday - buy $50 worth of TP, PT, laundry detergent, dishwasher pods yadaydaa for same day instore pickup get a $15 gift card. 3 shelves worth of crap and $900 later, i am flush with gc and cleaned out all the kylo sith bhz onsale for $9.99 with no money out of pocket. corona-induced toilet paper hoarding is going to make me some LEGO money on the backend... wah weh.

There is a very large percentage of people in this country that couldn't afford to self-quarantine for two weeks.

Disneyworld without long lines? Probably worth it

At least we are appeased with $1.78/gallon gas prices.

You may want to consider reassessing your delivery and subject matter when practicing comedy. Looking through all your posts in this thread equate to the reading/writing level of a 5th grader. If you want to contribute, why not be productive?! I dont think anyone here thinks there is a government/nation out there more powerful than a virus. If you do, I have land on the moon to sell ya. What I AM saying is, the first confirmed case is being traced back to mid-Nov. Its obviously too much to ask to not LIE about a potential Epidemic/Pandemic. One of the greatest faults was allowing the Chinese New Year festivals to still take place. Then, We, the US, allowed people back in the country. Then our president lied, 'repeatedly' about the situation. All of this lying to protect profits, shareholders, wallstreet, etc, eventually effects us 'common' folk the most. What a time we live in when capitalism is more important than public health.

Schools will be where it spreads and then the children pass it along to others that are more affected by it.

My wet dreams are a little different.

On a semi-related note - I want to thank all of the moderators & participants at Brickpicker. There are very few places online these days where commenting on ANYTHING doesn't devolve into name calling & general ass-holery, and this is one of them. Kudos to this community.

I wanted to create a new thread in order to give progress on my site updates. I want explain a bit on what happened and what I am doing. What happened with the site? Honestly nothing really exciting or dramatic, overall in the end, I did not want to support the host I was with for the past four years after not really offering too much help with managed servers. They would spend 30 seconds looking, say they can ping the server so its up and then just say, "hey not my problem". I was on aging hardware, paying the same amount of money, so I took the opportunity to move to a new host with better/faster hardware and a staff that does help to support you when run into an issue that you can't handle on your own. I have been doing this a long time and pretty good monitoring and handling 99% of what comes my way, but there are issues that you need the next level up to help figure out what to do. I wasn't getting anything like that, but paying for it. Not anymore. What my goal is... I know more than anyone that the site needed some TLC. It's been a while since I have done any drastic updates, the site looked tired and I know the site can be so much better than what it's current state was. LEGO investing has changed since Ed and I launched the site and it's time to remove the dead content and bring more of what people are looking for. Below is the short term list of items planned for updating. I have been working on the nightly, just like the early days and enjoying seeing parts of it coming to life. Fix the login. This has been messed up and quirky for a while. This has been resolved and working well. It's a simple thing overall, but nice that it actually works how it's supposed to Overall price guide site design update. The site was tired and disjointed. I hated it and pained me to look at it. Time to start over. Brickfolio update. All the Brickfolio data is safe. I have close to three million rows of data for Brickfolio entries. Time to bring this thing to 2020. I will probably create another thread at some point to solicit some feedback on some new requests for the brickfolio Fix the data syncing with Brickset. A lot of people used this feature, but it's time to make it work the way it should. Later I will work on the content portions. The news and blogs. I have some good ideas for this, but want to get the price guide and brickfolio to you sooner than later. What I am asking for if possible... If you can, please stop asking where the brickfolio is. Again, the data is safe and I am working as fast as I can to bring it all back to you. It won't be a few days, but more like a few weeks, but it will be worth it. I setup my dev environment to push releases quick and easy. I want to create a true changelog so that you can follow updates to see what was done/fixed/new/removed, you know like what real software companies do. I really do appreciate your patience with this. It wasn't planned, but if there was going to be a time to do it, it was going to be now.

Couple quick comments/notes. As most of you have seen from my posts I'm not any more concerned about this virus then the flu or cold personally but you can't deny the impact it's having globally on both panicky people and more important the health care systems. That being said: If possible stock up on gas, diesel, and propane if you can. I'm on several forums that honestly are more accurate and faster with news and info then any other source I've ever seen and just based on what several people have said that work the industry we are very close to some serious fuel issues due to shutdowns and cutbacks on production regardless of oil prices. Also, not sure what some of you are seeing and going back to Brickolodon complaining about sales but the last week+ have been one of my busiest time-frames outside a holiday in a very long time. Everything to small pieces orders to large expensive sets and to numerous countries outside the USA.

The "logic" you are trying to establish here is just too hard to comprehend. Following facts: 1. There is a magazine which is mostly owned by rich families. 2. In 1988 the magazine published a prediction that there will be a new world currency. 3. I didnt find any source for the black cover, but okay lets assume thats correct. Because of one prediction of a magazine mostly owned by rich families which was correct and a black cover you say its dooms day in 2020.... That is just a whack conspiracy.

Imagine how many cannabis plants die due to neglect as the result of this decision

https://www.si.com/college/2020/03/11/ncaa-tournament-coronavirus-no-fans-march-madness

Dude, I'm Gen X. When we start caring about anything everyone should be worried. 😂

I have a cruise, tickets to Sonic Temple, Megadeth/Lamb of God, and Korn/Faith No More. Hope they are not all canceled.

you misspelled "May Madness"

Sorry but no, there isn't.

It wasn't all just screw ups. There was a strong urge to cover this up and hide the numbers (such as not adding the cruise ship numbers) so that it wouldn't affect the stock market. That, or to try not to panic people but it may have been better to meet the challenge head on.

for every expert that stands in front of camera there is a boss behind that person that is undermining his/her ability to be truthful

The problem with this pandemic won't be the virus, it'll be the people going crazy. Imagine being in your house 2-3 months with no permission to leave. China & Italy are already there, who says it won't happen to us all? I wonder what sick laws the governments will push through taking advantage of this "global crisis". Everything is possible at this point.

this is the next level for me to get to in the game of Bathroom - TP-independence and a sparkling backside. gets good about 2:30

I saw this yesterday & laughed. Then a few minutes went by & I texted my wife: "Could you pick up some toilet paper when you're at the store today?"

Whoa now, Kylo. The Star Wars Discussion is in another thread.

I think it is pathetic and embarrassing that South Korea has administered 200,000 tests for Coronavirus, versus our paltry 6,500 tests. Are we sure we live in a democracy???

It was a great honor to get a prediction right versus you, Sensei. Thank you for the opportunity.

Says every conspiracy theorist ever. LOL

Conference tourneys going on right now. It will be intersting to see what they do with those.

Holy frijoles...this is getting crazy

yeah I meant the big festival stuff, first ones were open air (Texas and Miami). Been a few sold out arena tours that went off the past week so who knows.

Know what is going to be awesome... Watching March Madness with no crowds in the stands....Anyone care to wager a 60219 on that?

This guy talks about it in this interview with Joe Rogan. Cliffs - He says that it wasn't a bio weapon and it probably came from the animal markets in Wuhan.

I don't think it's the stupidity of Educated folks...it's the failure to lead by the leadership Fact of the matter: Leadership matters a lot. Although we think we have choices, but it's ultimately the leadership that provides the choices. Trump is the president of this country and we can have our issues with him, but I am seeing more evidence of the masses acting "Trump-like" (in terms of how his critics paint him) in this crisis: choosing ignorance, then deny, try to distract, then blame And to use that last bit...If I had to blame someone I blame the "experts" who's job it is to prevent pandemics...I hope they learned that Panic happens anyway if there's insufficient information. The WHO hemming and hawing trying to "avoid" a panic ended up misleading the world leaders to think there was hope of containment...basically that overly conservative thinking or policy (don't know who to blame for that) robbed the nations like Italy and US a month of preparation time.

Regulations in the US are tough - people have wanted testing, doctors have wanted testing, but the rules/regulations made that nearly impossible.

What’s wrong about help idk you didn’t get it.

Quarantine effectiveness...one area Communism>Democracies US has no hope of effectively quarantining major segments of the country...it's more likely we see a vaccine before "containment" like Wuhan

Its what I've been saying from the beginning and why its dumb to freak out like people are doing. There is no way to contain it. Just taking into consideration the 6 Degrees of Separation Theory alone with a 1 week plus gestation period and the way we interact and travel all over there world anymore and it's a joke to think any government could have stopped it.

How to create conditions that produce new killer viruses?

My friend keeps saying with the TP shortage, the waffle stomp is going to make a comeback.

You are right, it can be transmitted from anyone to anyone... but have you seen how gross most kids can be? They pick their nose, don't cover their mouths when they cough, scratch their butts, etc... and very few wash their hands properly, too excited to move on to the next thing. Combine that with the fact that most kids hug their friends at school daily (at least my girl does). These kids are in very close contact daily, sharing crayons and glue... I don't know how many times I have had to tell my daughter to quit swapping hair scrunchies with her friends at school. So yes, if everyone did these things on a daily basis then they should stay home to try to help contain an outbreak.

If you take an approach that goes beyond one level, you would see that schools are breeding grounds for any type of virus, bacteria, or even head lice. These kids then go home and pass it on to everyone else in the family. If you've had kids in school, it should be painfully obvious why this is being done. It's not for the health of the school kids, it's for the hopeful containment of the virus.

I could foresee them using the superhero jumper piece for breaking some bricks!

I'm very excited about the possibilities here. Huge Lego fan, huge old-school NES fan, my two favorite things from childhood coming together? A dream! I'd be interested in full sets, brickheadz, whatever. I know Mario and Nintendo have a wide audience but I really hope they don't go the 4+ route like they did with the Toy Story 4 sets. Would love a Super Mario 64 castle D2C set. Probably too similar to the Disney castle though. Man this is overall exciting news

I hate that it isn't in order...