Regular is till dropping here!:
regular _ $1.959 (1.96) / U.S. gallon
premium $2.359 (2.36) / U.S. gallon
Angel Soft Bath Tissue $49.99 / U.S roll (Out of stock) 
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In 3 months there’ll be yard sales all over the country selling TP and hand sanitizers at rock bottom prices.
People here are panicked and literally going nuts buying everything in the stores! Empty shelves are all over the stores and nobody can find any milk, almond milk, etcetera, to buy. Check-out lines are unbelievably long! Oh, the humanity!
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That is one of the thing’s I don’t miss from when I lived in Florida every time a hurricane was predicted the long line’s and the store’s all sold out.
Locals say this Corona thing is worse than Irma. News media is panicking people.
It doesn’t bother me one way or another. This is paradise.
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Luckily I was F&B director for Holiday Inn Boardwalk in Daytona Beach. We had free Hurricanes, some kind of kiddie alcoholic drink in hurricane glasses on the 18th floor bar and restaurant. I walked to work, free food and drink when I was working, so no worries. Yeah it was a pair of dice, did not worry about gas and water, but here in WI, went to the store no water, no toilet paper no eggs, not a loaf of bread left on the shelves, no yeast left for making your own bread, made some hand sanitizer, luckily I found a bottle of 70% isopropyl, and get to keep the everclear if needed internally, so back to gas, $1.74 today.
EDIT: Evidently Holiday Inn Boardwalk is no longer a Holiday Inn
I enjoyed a long week on St John Island years ago and was told by several residents that it was paradise and so far I have found no reason to contradict that including a great vacation traveling the Gulf Coast of Florida.
And on my time on Florida’s west coast I was curious and visited several large automotive shops and even filled out an application at a few just to see what they had to offer. I was quite disappointed at what they offered. As a certified master mechanic with 20+ years experience I wasn’t offered enough to support myself in Havana, much less Tampa, Clearwater, Pensacola.
Filled up here in north central OK at 1.59 a gallon but it’s a double edged sword.
Gas prices go low so does my oil and natural gas royalty checks which take a severe beating.
You’re older than I am, and even I am dismayed at how our industry is constantly making the mechanic’s piece of the pie smaller and smaller. Today a journeyman tech can consider himself lucky to get 25% of the door as a flat rate. In your heyday it was 40%, right? 30 years ago in my first real job as a full fledged tech my pay was 100% commission. I earned 25% of parts and 30% of labor.
I had my own place for 8 years, some months my lead tech made more than I did, nowadays every shop has some convoluted pay plan that ensures the business risk is on the employees, not just the owner.
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Lived in Daytona, red tide, bluefish runs, though they were good eating, stepped on a skate or 2, similar to a mild shock, scraped my knees learning how to skimboard yes a great place, and took a job in ND after my FL gig, only got to 46 below real temp, You can learn to appreciate and love wherever you end up I think.
If TRUTH is panicking people…then they can’t handle the truth. Corvid-19 is easier to transmit then the flu, has a 300% higher mortality rate. Follow the science - NOT the idiots.
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Regular was down to $2.43 when I filled up on Monday ($2.40 with my rewards card from Sheetz). Still happily ignoring their stupid E15 crap…
OPEC says they’ll pay customers to take their oil! WTI was below $23 earlier today. Marc Cuban is worried that the pitch forks could be coming out soon. Cramer spoke admiringly of FDR this morning. If Fox reports that pigs are flying should we doubt them?
Lowest I’ve seen in NH is $2.19. And the gas glut is going to get worse (or better…depending on how you look at it). My company and many many others have closed offices. Work at home. We only have 5 people in who do assembly work. Big companies like HP and Oracle have shut offices and everyone is to work from home. All restaurants around here are take-out only. Some have completely closed. In the past week the growth rate of infected people here in NH has been growing about 20% a day.
It’s more virulent yes, it’s not deadlier than the flu if you aren’t immunocompromised or older than 60-65, though.
No proof of that. Let’s not speculate.
The major problem is the huge strain it’s putting on our medical systems. So stating ‘it’s not deadlier than the flu’ misses the point - it is causing a medical treatment crisis.
Not from everything I’ve read.
Flu mortality rate - 0.1%. Covid-19 - 1.4% to 3%. More people die from the flu, but Covid-19 is a new virus and is just getting traction. If we don’t take precautions we could see those numbers soar.
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I’m not…but I don’t have sources I can quote directly. They’re coming from information from our infectious disease team which is working off of their data, data from our parent hospital, as well as data from CDC, WHO, etc.
This is certainly true. Pennsylvania just closed non-essential businesses to help quarantine efforts on Monday. I sincerely hope the folks around me actually adhere to it…
I’m actually curious to see what the numbers will look like for this years influenza, because the mortality rate fluctuates with which strains are more active. I think in the end the mortality rate of COVID will be either on the lower end of your range or lower even than that. Developed countries will have a lower mortality rate, and again, outside of special population groups, it’s thankfully not been shown to be as deadly. Hopefully quarantine efforts will be successful. I’ve definitely noticed my morning and evening commutes this week have had far less traffic than normal
Even though each year the flu is different…but if you’ve ever had a flu in the past the anti-bodies actually do some protection in lessening the severity of the flu.
this is a big reason why my hospital became one of the first in PA to make flu shots for all employees mandatory, in addition to trying to keep our patients from getting it from us. Heading back towards cars, I wonder if we’ll get some noticeably improved air quality from fewer cars being driven around while people stay inside