Posts by Larry Walker24

silentsurfer3 said:I'll bet you anything that decision from Monday isn't getting renewed.😁

hahaha 👍

Grace Jones86 said:Showing up at the office, signing paper contracts, getting your hardware, and actually meeting the crew and the company—you can't do all that via Skype. That’s why most companies freeze their hiring processes... ergo the world is standing still.

Your logic is bizarre. Seriously. By that reasoning, we should just manage "life" through Skype every time a new virus hits... and just give up on civilization indefinitely.
Pure trolling.

Who guarantees we're talking about June under that logic? Could be September, could be next May. 🙄

Oh sure... everything can be done over Skype.

I said having a CONVERSATION over Skype. Don't go putting words in my mouth!!

Look, that's how you nail down business deals out there. I'm definitely not flying to London or Dublin just so they can have a thirty-minute chat with me.

I guess I'm just the crazy one then.🤦

If you ask me, there’s no way they lift the travel ban between cities before June 1st. If we're lucky, maybe around May 15th

The folks in charge said they’re going to follow Austria's lead and try to match whatever they do.

Grace Jones86 said:Look, let's say I have to head to Washington, D.C. for a job interview (and potentially to sign an employment contract), which won't happen until these hardcore restrictions are lifted.
I won't be able to get to Washington, D.C. anyway (because I seriously doubt the peasants working in government agencies even grasp the concept of a job interview or building a career), nor will there be any such interviews until these hardcore measures are completely gone.

And you're telling me you can't just set up an interview over Skype?!

Honestly, if you ask me, travel between cities is going to be a total mess until mid-May at best.

Passes agreement signed:

So, following the calls from the local emergency management teams, we finally got an agreement signed. This means folks living in those cities and towns can move around without needing those damn passes anymore.

The Department of State just announced that Americans who got "stuck" in Italy and Spain—basically the major hotspots for this whole coronavirus mess—as well as folks in Portugal and Sweden, are getting flown back to the States this Saturday on commercial Delta Air Lines flights.

The Department of State is calling these "commercial repatriation flights," and they’re scheduled to head out this Saturday afternoon, April 4th.

There are three specific routes lined up: Washington-Rome-Washington, Washington-Lisbon-Madrid-Washington, and Washington-Stockholm-Washington. If you need to grab a ticket, you can go through the Obzor travel agency, which is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

"Knowing how many Americans are currently caught in these pandemic hotspots, our diplomatic and consular network has been working overtime since this crisis kicked off to find the best ways to get everyone home," the Department of State said. They also added that they're grinding away to get the rest of the Americans who asked for help back to the US as soon as possible.

Tomorrow (Wednesday), Minister of Administration Ivan Malenica is rolling out this new "e-Passport" service through the Service sharing center. It’s basically going to link up the Ministry of the Interior, the Tax Administration, the Social Security Administration, the healthcare system, and Civil Protection.

According to the Ministry of Administration, this e-Passport thing is meant to give everyone one single spot to access issued passes. The idea is to cut down on people abusing the system and make tracking those passes way more efficient.

They also mentioned it'll help them track down anyone trying to dodge self-isolation rules.

Minister Malenica is set to present the e-Passport at a press conference over at the Government headquarters.

NATIONAL DEBATE
'ARE OTHERS JUST STUPID AND PARANOID? OR IS SWEDEN MESSING UP?' Some scientists are questioning the whole pandemic strategy: 'We're heading straight for disaster'

Jacob Alvarez said:So, what, there won't be any new cases by Easter?

Capak: "When everyone suddenly headed south, the travel ban was an epidemiologically sound move. We’ll adjust the restrictions based on how things play out and how people actually behave—either loosening them up or tightening the screws. I think we need to hold steady at this level for now, then re-evaluate in a week. Easter is coming up, and obviously, everyone wants those restrictions to ease up a bit. We’ll all reach an agreement."

I’m really hoping they lift the ban at least by Easter

What’s it actually like living in Sweden? They took a totally different approach to the whole COVID thing, and honestly, the vibe here is worlds apart from how things went down back in the States. There's way less panic in the air.

HERE'S THE PROBLEM!!!

Dozens of Americans are being flown back home from all those COVID hotspots, thanks to help from our Department of State, according to a statement they dropped on Monday.

We've got 11 people coming back from Los Angeles, 29 from Washington, D.C., and 13 were sent back Sunday from Colorado.

On Sunday, 20 Americans also made it back via New York City after flying out of New Delhi, plus seven people came home from Cuba, 16 from Peru, and one from Bolivia.

They’ve also been coordinating travel for Americans moving back and forth to the Czech Republic for medical treatment.

The memo points out that since we're currently holding the presidency of the European Council, our embassies outside the EU are basically acting as coordinators. For example, the U.S. Consulate in Dubai even managed to get a flight out for EU citizens who were stuck in transit on a plane arriving from Dubai to Washington, D.C.

There were 32 Americans on that specific flight.

- They mentioned they know a lot of seasonal workers are stuck in a bad spot right now, and the consulates are trying to figure out the best way to get them home.



And they're coming straight from the middle of the outbreak too. 🤦 🤦 🤦

Word on the street is we're stuck in quarantine until June 1st—now Vili just announced 🤦

BARS ARE PACKED, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN, AND INSTEAD OF STRICT LOCKDOWNS THEY'RE JUST GIVING OUT ADVISORIES. What’s actually going on with Sweden’s "liberal" approach to fighting the coronavirus?

According to the analysts over at Bank of America, the Swedish GDP is looking at a four percent drop this year. But here’s the kicker: they’re saying if this economic shock triggers a massive wave of bankruptcies, that hit could balloon to eight percent. On top of that, unemployment is expected to spike by ten percent in the next few months.

These numbers just show how fast this virus flipped the entire world upside down. Back in January, Bank of America was actually predicting 1.4 percent growth for the Swedish economy this year. But now, with the global economy totally locked down, this trade-dependent nation is staring down a recession that Bank of America experts say will be "wider and faster than the financial crisis."

Look, once they start dissolving municipalities, we’re going to see some massive savings

On the Island, you've got two different cities, each with its own mayor, secretaries, and all that other garbage, right there on the Island 🤦 🤦

hollowtrucker77 said:Honestly, we might as well scrap all the Municipalities and just downgrade the Counties to their level

👋 👋 👋

dustymarlin10 said:Oh yeah, sure, because telling a 75-year-old who has to drive to the next town over in 1.9 miles just to pick up their meds to start using a digital pen sounds like a totally realistic plan...

then honestly, they should just shut down his whole town.

Jacob Patel2 said:Can someone clarify what’s happening with transit and individual travel across the border? It mentions cross-border workers and passengers in transit—what does that actually imply? If I have to head to Canada for a single day on business, will they let me through?

Nah, the only ones getting across the border are drivers hauling freight.

Even if you somehow manage to pull it off, you'll end up stuck in a 14-day quarantine in Canada, and then you've got another 14 days of quarantine waiting for you back here in America.