Ask the churchgoers if they were their seatbelts en route to church that day.
Not only is that completely disgusting, some calling this “satan’s” tool to keep people out of church, but it’s dangerous to all of us. Longer people fuck around, longer it will take for us to get back to normal.
What’s also pathetic is the administration allowing churches the ability to reach out for SBA loans. Now, that doesn’t mean that the religion is bad, but there will no doubt be “church/religious organizations” who will look to take advantage of tax payer dollars DESPITE them never having to put in. And before anyone gets on me about Trump, I am confident the other party would have done the same. How many small businesses will miss out on bailout money because it has been sent to Joel Olsteen, Jim Baker, or Falwell?
I feel no sympathy for those who decide to attend, that go, and get sick. Why not just wait until this is over.
Arrogance of man
Quote: @Skodin said:
Ask the churchgoers if they were their seatbelts en route to church that day.
Not only is that completely disgusting, some calling this “satan’s” tool to keep people out of church, but it’s dangerous to all of us. Longer people fuck around, longer it will take for us to get back to normal.
What’s also pathetic is the administration allowing churches the ability to reach out for SBA loans. Now, that doesn’t mean that the religion is bad, but there will no doubt be “church/religious organizations” who will look to take advantage of tax payer dollars DESPITE them never having to put in. And before anyone gets on me about Trump, I am confident the other party would have done the same. How many small businesses will miss out on bailout money because it has been sent to Joel Olsteen, Jim Baker, or Falwell?
I feel no sympathy for those who decide to attend, that go, and get sick. Why not just wait until this is over.
Arrogance of man
Wells Fargo closes loan window for SBA relief program
Wells Fargo said Sunday evening that it has exhausted its $10 billion capacity for lending under the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program as the bank operates under a regulatory asset cap.
In other words, amid the pandemic-induced downturn that has some talking of an impending economic depression, one of the nation’s largest lenders will largely be kept on the sidelines.
“Today, the company continues to operate in compliance with an asset cap imposed by its regulator due to actions of past leadership,” Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said in a statement Sunday. “While we are actively working to create balance sheet capacity to lend, we are limited in our ongoing ability to use our strong capital and liquidity position to extend additional credit.
“Since I arrived at the company, I have been clear that we will direct all resources necessary to do the work required by our regulators and we are in the process of doing so,” Scharf said. “We are committed to helping our customers during these unprecedented and challenging times, but are restricted in our ability to serve as many customers as we would like under the PPP."
Wells Fargo closing its loan window under the special SBA program is likely to stun millions of small business owners across the country that bank with Wells Fargo and were planning to apply this week for the SBA PPP loans that eventually become grants if the money is used to keep employees on the payroll and to pay other eligible expenses.
Small business owners’ lenders and accountants are expecting a wave of loan applications to come in this week for the SBA program that began on April 3.
“We’re going to see a lot of activity. People are eager to get in line quickly” to get money from the SBA PPP, Mike Stok, a partner in San Francisco accounting firm Murray Stok & Co., told me Saturday in discussing the rush and confusion already underway last Friday for the SBA PPP.
Wells was among the banks that did not accept applications on the SBA PPP’s first day, April 3. But by April 4, Wells said on its website that it was allowing its small business customers to express interest in borrowing under the special SBA program.
Wells Fargo said it will focus on lending to nonprofits and small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The San Francisco bank will donate the fees it generates from the SBA PPP program to nonprofits that support small business.
Wells Fargo said it will review all “expressions of interest” submitted by customers using the bank’s online form through Sunday, April 5, and provide them with updates in the coming days.
Wells Fargo would have the capacity to lend more than $384 billion if it wasn’t operating under the asset cap, Bloomberg News reported last week. The SBA PPP was allocated $350 billion under the recently passed stimulus package called the CARES Act.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/efe4bf39-27...-loan.html
Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
@ BigAl99 said:
Nope, wifey and I, were both symptomatic, mid March after a trip to DC a couple weeks earlier. They were only testing those they were going to put on ventilators, is what we were told. State, Iowa, had less than 600 test available and less capacity to process them.
My girlfriend is symptomatic and the only way she can get tested is to be hospitalized.
She works for a cancer center that's part of the biggest hospital in North Carolina.
Sorry to hear, Barr. Hope everything turns out OK.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@"BarrNone55" said:
@ BigAl99 said:
Nope, wifey and I, were both symptomatic, mid March after a trip to DC a couple weeks earlier. They were only testing those they were going to put on ventilators, is what we were told. State, Iowa, had less than 600 test available and less capacity to process them.
My girlfriend is symptomatic and the only way she can get tested is to be hospitalized.
She works for a cancer center that's part of the biggest hospital in North Carolina.
Sorry to hear, Barr. Hope everything turns out OK.
Ditto BN...
Quote: @Vikergirl said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/african-ameri...00749.html
Here comes a hot take, I know, but I will say with my own ancedotal evidence driving around or viewing social media, African Americans are hanging out with each other. Just look at Hilton Hill’s instagram stories, he and 5 other athletes working out with each other. Side by side.
I drove by a funeral two days ago, 30 people just hanging out next to each other. Drive down town, groups sticking together, no masks, no distance.
On the flip side my GF’s lesbian Vermont aunts, they are socially distancing within their own house.
Some people get it and some people don’t, but that won’t be addressed in this upcoming conversation how black/poor/urban people are decimated by this virus. Just waiting for the . . This virus is racist . . . Or this virus is a tool of class warfare . . .
No this virus is a war on stupidity and preparation
A mayor ordered police to crack down on social gatherings. They found his wife at a bar (CNN)A mayor in Illinois pleaded with residents last week to follow the state's stay at home order. After officers reported that people were continuing to defy the rules, the mayor said he had directed the city's police department to use its discretion in issuing citations and arrests.
"These are very serious times and I'm begging you to please stay at home," Brant Walker, mayor of Alton, Illinois, said in a briefing on Friday.
Less than 48 hours later, police broke up a gathering at Hiram's Tavern in downtown Alton. Among those in attendance: Walker's wife.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/07/us/illinois-mayor-wife-gathering-police-trnd/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
CNN didn’t tell us if he was red or blue. 
Quote: @Skodin said:
@ Vikergirl said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/african-ameri...00749.html
Here comes a hot take, I know, but I will say with my own ancedotal evidence driving around or viewing social media, African Americans are hanging out with each other. Just look at Hilton Hill’s instagram stories, he and 5 other athletes working out with each other. Side by side.
I drove by a funeral two days ago, 30 people just hanging out next to each other. Drive down town, groups sticking together, no masks, no distance.
On the flip side my GF’s lesbian Vermont aunts, they are socially distancing within their own house.
Some people get it and some people don’t, but that won’t be addressed in this upcoming conversation how black/poor/urban people are decimated by this virus. Just waiting for the . . This virus is racist . . . Or this virus is a tool of class warfare . . .
No this virus is a war on stupidity and preparation
There is plenty of stupid in all colors. There is also research that shows bias in regard to health care for minorities.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@"BarrNone55" said:
@ BigAl99 said:
Nope, wifey and I, were both symptomatic, mid March after a trip to DC a couple weeks earlier. They were only testing those they were going to put on ventilators, is what we were told. State, Iowa, had less than 600 test available and less capacity to process them.
My girlfriend is symptomatic and the only way she can get tested is to be hospitalized.
She works for a cancer center that's part of the biggest hospital in North Carolina.
Sorry to hear, Barr. Hope everything turns out OK.
The fever is gone, but she still has several symptoms.
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