Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[FortCluck]

Someone was saying that the stimulus checks will take away from our tax returns next year? Is that true? They also claimed those that received SSI wouldn't qualify? Y'all heard anything about that? Is that bologna?

I heard SSI people will get it but who knows. We need to hear what the bill has and no one knows yet.

 

[FortCluck]

Someone was saying that the stimulus checks will take away from our tax returns next year? Is that true? They also claimed those that received SSI wouldn't qualify? Y'all heard anything about that? Is that bologna?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/feeds....20/coronavirus-stimulus-checks.html?_amp=true

 

[Birdfriend]

I'm sitting at home in the U.K, and at the moment there aren't a huge amount of shortages but it's getting tricky to find eggs at the supermarket. (Somewhat ironic, considering the site...) Also, uh... We have no fridges. Yeah.

 

[sourland]

2 days ago: 4,402 confirmed infected
62 deaths
25 confirmed in my county

That was this morning.

Now : 6,876 confirmed infected
81 deaths
39 confirmed in my county
2 in my rural township

Today: 8,825 confirmed infected
108 deaths
52 confirmed in my county
3 in my rural township

In NJ testing is limited to medical and support personnel and those with severe clinical symptoms, and not all of them are being tested due to shortage of materials. On Saturdays the only people being tested are medical personnel, emt's, police, firemen.

Spin this however you may, these are actual figures.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Someone was saying that the stimulus checks will take away from our tax returns next year? Is that true? They also claimed those that received SSI wouldn't qualify? Y'all heard anything about that? Is that bologna?

Some of that was the old bill. The SSI part *was* true. Many people claimed that's why they didn't vote for it. The new bill shouldn't do that. It's now got different requirements. People on various sort of social security should get the check now.
Also the 2020 tax returns is a bit misleading. It's supposed to be based on your 2019 income (so 2020 taxes). If you make a LOT of money this year, so that you would no longer qualify for the check (like going from 75K to 100K) and then you would have to pay it back. Otherwise sources say it should be cut and dry.

(source: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/h...turn/63-a87c2487-645d-4fbf-b850-f8ee50dbf3bf?)

 

[ColoradoPip]

 

[IamRainey]

2 days ago: 4,402 confirmed infected
62 deaths
25 confirmed in my county



Today: 8,825 confirmed infected
108 deaths
52 confirmed in my county
3 in my rural township

In NJ testing is limited to medical and support personnel and those with severe clinical symptoms, and not all of them are being tested due to shortage of materials. On Saturdays the only people being tested are medical personnel, emt's, police, firemen.

Spin this however you may, these are actual figures.

Go to the Johns- Hopkins tracking page. Click on the US. Look at the graph of new cases in the lower right hand corner. The line's approaching vertical. Then you can toggle to the daily increase page and see what's happened over the last 2 weeks. Then consider that every one of those new cases are vectors for the ones to come.

I'm sorry people think I'm "fear mongering". I'm not. I'm trying to get people who aren't yet in this tsunami to see what's coming at them and prepare and pressure the federal government to do their part to deal with what's happening on the coasts and in the large cities.

Anyone who thinks they can dismiss the cities is missing that New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and Seattle are the lifeblood of the economy. We're the folks who pay the taxes that support services to most of the US. Letting our major cities take this hit is setting up the next one to the economy that's still coming.

 

[Kiki]

Krista2131

I added you.

 

[Kiki]

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[FortCluck]

I added you.

I suck at it it's fun though