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This is going to be commonplace the next couple weeks. #TRAFFICALERT Niagara Square is closed to traffic due to the ongoing protest happening there.

True I get the common cold twice a year but I call it a sinus infection because it occurs in Fall and in Spring. Every Oct/April it seems. I buy quite a bit of medicine OTC during this time. Nighttime and sinus meds.

Yeah I take my odds with not getting the vaccine. I've had the flu once in the last 6-7 years.

As Delta mentioned if we cannot find a cure for the common cold, what makes us think we can for this? Or is the common cold not severe enough to find a remedy too and majority of time we are at the herd immunity phase already. (Barring mutation)

But isn't the coronavirus just a variation/mutation of the common cold? Would not the same concept be applied here? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html

Every time I go for a run or walk and get short of breath I feel like I'm getting the virus.

Let's tone it down a little bit. Let's try to keep it civil, and respect other peoples believes. We can have discussions/debates but lets keep it friendly.

https://www.memorandumdaily.com/2020/04/coronavirus-has-now-killed-more-people.html

only 2200 people live in Pulaski Over 60k live in Hamburg, its crowded everywhere I go.

New York Hospitalizations still growing: 55,723

I'm really ready for some warmth.

I think most people have a problem accepting our own mortality. I don't really fear death. I know I have another 40-45 years left on this planet if I'm lucky. I want to use those years to the fullest I can. In the last 3 years I had a friend get hit my a car in a Tops parking lot in East Aurora and die, her son watched her as she got it. A colleague of mine get a heart attack following a hockey game and died at 46. The worst of all was a really good friend of mine who was 26 at a wedding in Perry NY. He was eating dessert with us at 9 PM and at 930 he passed out, they tried for an hour to get him back but nothing. 26 years old....And just last year a colleague at my works best friend died from some freak fluid into her lungs issue at 21(she had some rare medical issue before this)...She was all over the news I'm sure some saw it. My grandpa died 3 years ago at 72 (smoker/drinker) and my uncle died at 55 the same year as an alcholic and tried to stop drinking and his body went into shock and died. I also work in retirement, and some of the stories I hear of death are worse then these. Life tomorrow is not promised, enjoy each day.

I hung out with my buddy who had it. He said he was also of the mindset of not caring about getting it but he said it was terrible, and the worse lasted 3-4 days. He thinks his grandpa was the first in his family to get it, he died a month ago. His grandma got it and is fine, his mom and him are fine, his uncle is at the end of it.

Tonights sunset from the top of one of the silos downtown

Tonights sunset from the top of one of the silos downtown

Snow Reports: Highest was 4.6" in Alleghany county. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=BUF

What a mess. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/brazil-braces-onslaught-covid-19-cases-virus-advances-150712295.html

Cool to get people posting here from catskills though, hope you stick around next winter!

I don't think I got anything from this one. It snowed from 2-8 pm with nothing sticking. This has been an elevation based year and I'm at like 720 feet.

1025 deaths in NY last 24 hours.

Hey Luke we still taking one for the team? Coronavirus patients between the ages of 30 and 39 are the second-highest age group in the city, according to officials. https://patch.com/connecticut/norwalk/norwalk-coronavirus-update-30-year-old-resident-dies

If we go to war with China, this world as we know it is done. Trump cannot be that dumb can he?

Yep. This is why super pacs are so dangerous. You need their money to win an election. But you cannot raise taxes on the wealthy because then you won't get super pacs and lose. An absolutely vicious cycle. And this is why the 1% control the world. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates

My bigger issue isn't necessarily wages vs inflation. But the 1% income disparity and it's a direct result of tax breaks for the wealthy and not paying lower income employees what they're worth.

I like this back and forth, it's helping me learn. It looks like you may be correct. It's tough to use the 80s as that was a pretty bad time for US economics. After doing further research I've come across this. This is the CPI index inflation year over year directly from gov't website. We have been doing a fantastic job controlling inflation since 1990. It looks like we are actually doing pretty well in comparison to the 80s. However the 50s/60s did much better then during the 90s/2000s.