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I can't speak to their gold selection, but I’d steer clear of the silver at Argentum. I bought a necklace there that completely tarnished after just twenty days, yet I have another one with the exact same markings that looks brand new even after three weeks... To make matters worse, the clasp snapped the very first time I tried to put it on, which is why I bothered visiting the store. Unfortunately, the warranty was only good for a month, and now they're asking for $27 just to fix it. As for the discoloration, they had the nerve to tell me it's "high-quality 925 sterling silver" and that tarnishing is perfectly normal for silver... I don't even feel like uploading a photo to show you how bad this thing actually looks.
rowdyranger44 Asks:
Everyone seems to be overlooking the high probability that people in the Far East might possess some level of partial immunity to this virus, given that their populations likely encountered a similar strain during the recent SARS outbreak...
If Europe and the US had adopted the same tactics as China, there is no telling what the fallout would have been. Shutting down such a massive territory would have been far more devastating than the current clumsy attempts at management, especially since you wouldn't be able to maintain the distribution of essential supplies and services, which would only increase the risk of the virus spreading further...
I suspect it isn't actually immunity at play, but rather that people are still clinging to certain restrictions. The article suggests we could be looking at 600,000 infections a day; if China managed to weather that storm by shutting everything down, I believe Europe could hold out for a month too... even if it meant living on nothing but cornmeal for thirty or sixty days...
It’s quite amusing how we see ten cases pop up globally and suddenly everyone is an expert on who the virus targets and how dangerous it actually is. Yet, nobody is calling for a lockdown anymore. I just read an article speculating about how many cases China would have seen if they had behaved like Europe, but strangely, no one thought to write an article suggesting that if Europe and the rest of the world had acted like China did back then, we wouldn't even be dealing with this mess today. But of course, that’s unthinkable... the economy would have collapsed, or so they say, even though it clearly hasn't yet.
Nicholas King said:This is the second time I’ve heard this exact same claim.
Where on earth are you getting the idea that people traveling from the Midwest have to go into self-isolation just because they decided to head to the coast for vacation? Who exactly is dictating those isolation rules—some police patrol out on the highway???
Right, because clearly the police at checkpoints are out there stopping cars specifically to hand out quarantine orders...
People from the Midwest come down to the coast and are forced into quarantine, yet folks living by the beach get passes to head up to Washington, D.C. for the weekend, only to return straight to work without any isolation period... what kind of logic is that??