I travel to Santa Cruz now, up until a about 4 years ago my DM of 30+ years had opened a store in Danville and we would play there.
It's been a long time since I've played a game that wasn't fabricated from ones and zeroes on a screen...
The 30 day suspension elapses on April 11, just in time for the 25th anniversary rematch with DC United.
I really hope that by 11Apr20 we are all set to get back to a normal life. However, more realistically, I think it will be Fall or later before we can relax and engage in our normal activities again. I had a cruise scheduled for late March. It's been "postponed" until at least Fall, maybe next Spring. If it's next Spring, I see that as a cancelation. In any case, I see big group activities being pushed-out for many months, not just one or two. Go Quakes!! Go Quakesfans!! Fisher OUT!! - Mark
The economy won't be able to withstand much more of this suspended animation beyond 30 days. As it is, this "cure" is likely to kill more people than will die from the coronavirus in the United States. There are a lot of people here who live on the economic precipice, paycheck to paycheck, who have already or will soon lose their jobs. They and their families will suffer immensely. Some will die as a proximate result. More, I predict, than will die from the virus, whatever you choose to call it. And because of institutionalized racism, the burden will fall disproportionately on people of color, by the way.
We're going to need to institute support payments of some sort to a lot of people, and extend healthcare benefits to many who don't currently get them to forestall exactly the catastrophe you foresee. It's going to be a case of sucking it up and taking care of people for the next several months many employers won't like it, but it's necessary. Perhaps the government will have to step in a provide unemployment payments to people who can't work or lose their jobs because of this. It's going to be really expensive. But we aren't going to stop implementing health measures because it will hurt the economy. That would be crazy. Go Quakes!! Fisher OUT!! - Mark
We're already doing that. San Jose schools are still open, I'm told, because lots of kids depend on their school lunches for nutritional needs, plus many parents have no alternative day care options. The "health care measures" are already being balanced with the economic injuries.
Yeah because an unemplyment check every two weeks is enough to make a 2k+ house/rental payment plus all the other basics needed.
It’s going to get weird. A lot of people will work from home, those are mostly folks who make a lot of money. They’ll still get paid. My wife is in that category. Plenty of people can’t work from home, and some of them will be told not to go to work because of the virus. Those folks will need some sort of support payments and maybe a grace period on their mortgages or much more likely rent. You can’t lock down a society and not be willing to pay the cost. Maybe the pain gets shared in several ways, the employee, the employer, and the government. I don’t know how this is going to work, but we need to figure it out and quickly. Go Quakesfans!! - Mark
That's exactly what is happening. We're locking down our society and we're going to make the least able among us pay the costs. And it's not going to be figured out, let alone quickly. If government worked that way, we would have enough ventilators already. I have a text into Q to see how he's managing. He depends on in-person appearances for his income, so he can't just work from home, and the Quakes never paid him enough to live on in Silicon Valley to begin with. He may be too proud to respond to my inquiry. But I know already he doesn't have the wherewithal to survive without pay for the duration of the 30-day MLS suspension.
His other gigs also require being present in-person, and they are secondary income streams. And in case it hadn't occurred to you, being Q means showing up at multiple appearances around the Bay most weekdays, not simply strutting about on game days. Oftentimes he appears with a player or two, which is why most the players love him.
Yeah, I knew he made other appearances for the team, just did not know the extent of those appearances, and I also assumed he didn't do as much in the off-season.
This New Yorker article should give you an idea of the complexity of the issue in fairly ameliorating the financial fallout of our economic pause. A thousand dollars for everyone? How is that going to save Q? And the money is wasted on Jeff Bezos. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-...cndid=51759317&esrc=&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Daily
The $1.5 trillion that the Fed released will ensure that the plutocrats who have pulled their money out of the market as it collapsed will be made whole. So we got that going for us, which is nice... On a related note, when this all shakes out, I am hoping the SEC investigates people in government who liquidated their equity investments before the crash...