It’s not catching the virus in the showroom people should be worried about -

It’s their ability to make a payment (or deplete their bank account that much in one fell swoop) when they’re forced into quarantine for a month without pay and face huge medical bills.

N95 probaly would  be ok for around the town where your exposure would be low.  But in a hospital setting, I wouldn’t trust anything less than P100.

Surgical masks do very very little to keep from catching it. They’re marginal at very best to prevent spread. N95 will go quite a bit further, but even there you’re still only reducing exposure by 84% or so. A P100 will typically knock it down 99% or better. Not perfect, but way better than nothing. P100 will cost a…

Fact check - the majority of masks used by the pros in these cases are N95 masks. They capture 95% of particles 0.3 microns or larger. Therefore these filters are arguably better than the masks. Still, hiding inside your Tesla for weeks on end is a pretty stupid defense strategy, and driving around town the odds of…

Alternatively :

To win the presidency, you typically only have to win approximately half the votes (less if you’re Republican), and roughly half the population votes.

Therefore, to win, you just have to scare the dumbest 25% of the population into voting for you.

That is an obscenely low bar.

I’ve never had a CFL last less than 5 years - and those got a TON of daily usage - so much that an incandescent in those applications typically lasted no more than 6 months.

Its a shame if people don’t dispose of them properly, considering how easy it is - but even so, the amount of mercury in them is tiny.  In fact,…

As counter-argument, though, shifting behavior sometimes requires intervention. I remember many moons ago finding a squirrely looking lightbulb in the store. Damn thing cost $16 and promised to last 15 years using 75% less energy. It still is working today, about 22 years later. They VERY, VERY slowly came down in…

How about incentives for installing charging stations at apartments / condos?

We’d better get to work protecting him.

3rd:

This fundamentally isn’t really any different than tax incentives to keep a plant or reinvest. People really don’t seem to understand that factory buildings are CHEAP. What goes in them is what is expensive - and with that depreciating and wearing out / being replaced pretty regularly, companies regularly push for…

2nd:

This may be less of a mystery than you’re letting on.  One of GM’s largest facilities in China is in Wuhan.  It’s been closed and according to press reports, disrupting their supply chain elsewhere in China, too.

You aren’t inaccurate on who holds government debt - but the fact remains that we’re running massive deficits, and the government is struggling to find buyers at the interest rates they’re also trying to reach. The buyers have dried up and the costs of the debt would be growing - except for the fact that the fed is…

Mulally was in charge when the third gen Focus came about - and through the entire development of it. You can’t let him escape that.

And yes, development of the 2nd gen Focus was well underway, though it wouldn’t hit the showroom for another year.  And when it did, it was a piss-poor restyle of the 1st gen that was in…

How about a doc on the Takata airbag scandal - including how Honda and Takata reportedly knew of the problem and covered it up for years, helping the problem grow into the worst recall of all time...

I think Mulally gets a bit too much credit.  Many of the vehicles that really did spark their revival were either released before or shortly after he came on board.  I mean, the Fusion came around before he joined. The fifth-gen mustang, finally dumping the fox body, came around before he joined and didn’t get redone…

EBIT of $6.4 billion.
FCF of $2.8 billion.

Their net profit was low only because they wrote off giant expenses with restructuring operations, primarily in Europe, which should make them a stronger company going forward. Structurally, they were actually very profitable.

It’s not so much that they’re cooking the books, but rather that they’re desperately propping it up, just like the US economy.

Here, we have the federal reserve in full-blown QE4 mode, printing the better part of a trillion dollars per year to try to keep the economy moving, because no one wants to buy US government…

Meh - they’re certainly profitable enough now that its not like bankruptcy is any immediate concern. They are fixing some problems (ie, Europe, the fixing of which is the sole cause of their Q4 losses), and stockholder equity continues to grow.. but they are making confusing product decisions, abandoning markets, and…

Blows my mind. I mean, they should have the damned service records.

And yeah, I blame Honda for a lot of this - NY Times ran a piece claiming they knew about the problem in the very early 2000s - a full decade before doing anything... and years before other manufacturers switched to the same design to match costs...

People around me would have instantaneous aneurysms looking at this. We have a simple freakin’ roundabout where a two lane road meets a four lane, and they’re all up in arms about it being dangerous, impossible to understand, and one of their biggest complaints is the island in the middle is built up and landscaped so…