89/ Today panic buying is starting in Europehttps://twitter.com/Royal_Creme/status/1231640096094531587 …
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100/ That was my extreme high limit, based on minimal data, and I bet against it at "20:1 or 30:1". A month later, and we've got better data. Today the CDC estimate for American deaths is " As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html …
101/ So my extreme high-end estimate was ~ 6x the reasonable high end of the CDC estimate today, a month later. Very very happy to have reality clock in better than I feared!
103/ the kinds of tweets in my TL right now https://twitter.com/ThatUmbrella/status/1238561954760884224 …
104/ Lots of kind words today, both in public and DMs. aww, shucks, guys - thank you !https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1238567717592076288 …
105/ For those reading this thread (it seems popular today!), a little background about me: I'm a 48yo software engineer, former entrepreneur now just gun-for-hire. I live on a 56 acre farm in NH, I raise about half of my own food (sheep, pigs, turkeys, geese, chickens). >>
106/ I slaughter and butcher my meat, and put it away in chest freezers in the basement. I try to use every part of the animal, whether that means making blood pudding, or cooking and eating "variety meats" (what do you do with pig liver? make liverwurst)pic.twitter.com/UwPrzywgCw
107/ I heat my house with firewood (trees I cut down in my forest)pic.twitter.com/waR1zFA2Nj
110/ plant my own orchard (with my wife!) and harvest my own fruitpic.twitter.com/yxWecl3ygs
111/ I tried sheering my wife's sheep, but now we delegate that to a pro. At a fee ~ $10 each, it's not worth doing a bad job of to save money.pic.twitter.com/lj2YYsVn7b
112/ Here's the workshop, where I do welding / furniture / tractor maintenance / butchering, and every now and then stuff likepic.twitter.com/3W8JGBudIF
115/ If you like science fiction off in the direction of Heinlein, Niven, and Neal Stephenson, maybe check out my novels? They've got dogs. They're good books, Bront.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1154061890202591232 …
116/ prepper / coronachan thread continues 2 days ago, Italy lost 250 people today, they've lost 370, and it's not midnight yet this is what exponential growth looks like.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1238533725853560832 …
117/ > Nobody could have envisioned this. Nobody NoBoDY Then why was all of SV & techie-sphere freaking out 2+ months ago, stocking up on food, fuel & cash, and getting out of the stock market? Your incompetence doesn't imply universal incompetencehttps://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1240252031543238656 …
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