Stop promoting Austin. The Californians and Asians will come.
You are coming? I can show you around.
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This is important. Low oil prices can drive many shale drillers in Texas out of business. Could be a vector of financial contagion.
Austin not doing too well.
May be the only chance to buy Downtown Austin CHEAP!
Dream on if you think you can buy N/NW Austin + suburbs like Cedar Park & Avery Ranch cheap.
Chance to buy Houston and Dallas CHEAP, may be not.
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Cramer has been dunking on oil drilling for a while now. Not a business for the future. Any state heavily reliant on that business has a questionable future.
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Pressure on all other tech companies to follow suit.
Come on, you love to tell everyone how vastly superior California is to everywhere else. Time to show some leadership and handle a crisis.
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Well, isn’t airport security the job of the federal government? California is still only a state, not a sovereign nation.
““The CDC got this right with H1N1 and Zika, and produced huge quantities of test kits that went around the country,” Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC from 2009 to 2017, told us. “I don’t know what went wrong this time.””
I am failing to see how we can’t figure out what went wrong. This isn’t rocket science. Who makes the tests, who orders them made, who shipped them to places and which places, do they even work (no), and did the CDC make the testing criteria way too restrictive (yes)?
He’s being subtle in saying it’s the leadership fault
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3500 passengers on that damned ship and we only tested 45 people. Out of that 45, 21 tested positive. This is not how you stop a panic. Show some competence for God’s sake!
It occurs to me that if they tested the most likely 45 and all came back negative, they thought they could forgo the rest.
Here’s hoping that was the plan, and they will now test all of them.
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CA showing leadership here.
Health officials announce more than 22 million Californians will be eligible for free coronavirus testing
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I’d expect around 5-10% of that 3500 people will test positive. That could double US confirmed case number over night.
Quoting the article:
"An epidemiologist who studies the spread of virus particles said the recirculated air from a cruise ship’s ventilation system, plus the close quarters and communal settings, make passengers vulnerable to infectious diseases.
“They’re not designed as quarantine facilities, to put it mildly,” said Don Milton of the University of Maryland. “You’re going to amplify the infection by keeping people on the boat.”"
I didn’t know cruise ships are so huge these days. 3 to 5000 people on a petri dish sounds like a very bad idea even in the best of times.
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