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Honestly, I feel like it's a lose-lose situation. Right now, we're doing the "hindsight 20/20" where we see how we should have handled it, but if we took these measures a month ago, people would be screaming even more how much of an overreaction we're making, especially when it was zero-to-few confirmed cases in US at the time. Half the country will always be upset with choices made, one way or the other.

Mods, Can we please move a lot of the politics and memes to a new thread? Say Moronavirus or like that. We clearly have a group within this thread that don't believe in the coronavirus, let rhem.move to that thread..this will.keep a lot of the politics our of it. This will filter the garbage, early on in the thread it was productive. We can agree to disagree but cut all the bs out of the thread.

Decided to rebuild one of my all-time favorites to boost my morale. What a beauty! I love the classic advanced models, though I am not fortunate enough to have many of them. I am thankful that I have this one, it is a fantastic display piece and one of my favorite sets.

I’m quarantining myself from this thread, lol.

what I do or do not post has nothing to do with the fact that you seem to have an unreasonable urge to share every dumb thing you find. good message boards get turned into garbage when people like you run amok. maybe be a little selective.

I think everyone is strategically ignoring what they want to, to further their own arguments. Let me go find a link that bolster's my opinion, brb!.

Everyone this thread was great for days, people sharing good information about what is going on in their area, affecting their lives, facts about the issue at large. Lets not let this get stupid. Yes some fun is good, but 90% of the last 30 posts are garbage.

Two things that I have learned over the 4 years or so of this political divide are : A- you will not change anyone's mind over the internet and probably not even in person B-you don't have to lose your civility over this and if you take a step back you can make some great friendships with people who you dont see eye to eye with politically. At the end of the day , politicians make up and kiss on a daily basis while relationships can be ruined for ever. Uncle BA has spoken

can you take this crap to reddit or some other garbage site & stop spamming this thread? If I wanted marginally amusing memes I'd ask my 12 year old to find some for me

Wisconsin is on lock down mode. I’m all stocked up on bratwurst and cheese curds. [emoji1303] I’m looking forward to spending my Trump money on Lego. There should be some pretty good sales in the near future once this blows over.

Stuck at home with the kids. Wandered down into the lego store and said why not. Never built a falcon before.

https://www.newelementary.com/2020/03/lego-ideas-review-21322-pirates-barracuda.html Available from 1 April 2020. It contains 2,545 pieces and the price point is US$199.99/ CA$259.99/ €199.99/ £179.99/ 1599DKK. Special surprise, it turns into:

Thanks @BrickLegacy for sharing this

This certainly triggers me b/c you are so caught upon name calling you still fail to recognize he was over a month or two even, late, @NIevo. Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.” As the coronavirus spread in China and the first US case was reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 21. Trump was asked during an interview with CNBC on January 22 if he had any worries about the situation escalating into a pandemic. He said he did not.Trump made this comment on the CNBC show “Squawk Box” during an interview with Joe Kernen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. At the time, there were 500 cases reported in China and the first had just been recorded in the United States. Feb. 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China. It’s going to be fine.” Trump made this comment on the Fox News program “Hannity.” A few days prior to this interview, the Trump administration suspended entry to the United States of only foreign nationals who had recently visited China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau). This is around the date (Feb 2nd) we should have and could have reacted. Exchange students, families, vacationers, business, etc. all had already traveled home, spreading the virus. I understand being patriotic and defending our president. This one is defenseless in the terms of humanity. Repeated lies that will eventually result in deaths is no president of mine. Unbelievable people stand up for someone who would in turn kick them to the curb in a second. I hate talking politics but unfortunately a crewed nepotist business person muscled his way into Politics (facts no name calling) and his decisions are effecting our lives more than ever. As recently as Mar7th, the POTUS was telling reporters he was 'not concerned' about Covid-19's spread b/c 'we've done a great job'. Instead of treating Covid-19 more seriously, he actually made it a point to down play it. This isn't a discussion or even an argument, these are actual events. His administration is clearly acting in a way that has slowed down our response, EXPONENTIALLY!

That's great man, really happy for you, just don't forget you reached this greatness by f*cking the whole world up, putting yourself in the priority place & exploiting every weak country you could prey on 😉 congrats on that greatness, you can keep it, we don't want it. Stop acting like you guys built your empire, it was built at the expense of millions and today even billions of other people. So keep it cool with the patriotism or someone like me has to say a word or two about it.

Billed as an epic battle between good and evil...Unsurprisingly ended in a 0-0 tie:)

I believe the cancellation of March Madness let people know it was more serious than anything the government could say or do. Just so we use the right version of martial.

Thats the bigger issue, people just leaving the areas on lockdown to get away, possibly without knowing their own personal situation.

There is no teeth in any of this. Most of it is for the businesses to determine what is and isn't open.

I just watched it again over the weekend and had the exact same thought. For a Star Wars movie under Lucas, I felt like some of the special effects were phoned in.

Probably very easy to say from where you are sitting, the lack of empathy is oozing from your collective banter. Not sure about the EU, I dont think any of their leaders are spewing nonsense on twitter for the world to see. My logic is Nlevo is proud when POTUS closed the border and comparing the dates to EU as a "Who is right?'. Thats a child's argument and one should be left for the playground. Compared to me being ashamed of his timing when he knew about this as early as Jan21 and refused to mobilize. To stand by and be ok with our response as a nation is very dangerous and irresponsible. When people try to refute logic, deny facts or bend truths, an argument will arise 100% of the time.

I’m curious to know, too. I rewatched RO the other day, and I find that I love that film. At the moment, it’s #4 behind the OT. I haven’t watched the PT in ages. I really need to again.

I’m trying to follow your logic. So if the President was a month or two late, does that make the EU a month or two, plus 4 days late? Here’s where I think you are looking for conflict where none has to exist. I don’t see Nlevo denying the response time. Instead, I see the hypocrisy of EU countries saying one thing, and then backtracking days later. I see Nlevo calling that out. It feels like you’re the one getting caught up here. Ignoring that all governments didn’t react as quickly as we (in hindsight) would have liked them to act.

On a lighter note... our local restaurants are getting pretty inventive the past 2 weeks... Our local pizzeria has been delivering pizza kits for parents and children to make their own mini pies... drink specials for the parents... All sorts of out of the ordinary specials.

a single button click. Someone else here said they do this every year -> Pro during the X-mas period, Personal the rest of the year. I'm not worried it is going to hurt me.

It appears Atlanta ICU is almost at capacity. The southeast, while virtually doing no testing and no preventative measures, is going to see a large increase in hospitalizations. They may be about 1-2 weeks behind NYC. In Columbia, civil unrest has started. Easter timeline would be fantastic, but it isn't happening.

I just did a quick google search of the history of your country and let's just say that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and leave it at that.

I'm fine with however the rest of the world wants to judge us, we'll just keep on being the greatest😉

Trump does a fine job degrading himself, the rest of the world just regards him as a drive-by car accident gawking

Wow, wasn't aware he had done such things. I'm having a hard time coming up with a single policy of his I have a problem with as do many AMERICANS, which is why he will be re-elected. Now an elegant speaker he is not, but a master level troller he is🤣

I combined the original thread with the new thread. I liked the original, and I like the final product. I know there's complaints about the differences, but I've always taken "Ideas" as just that - submissions shouldn't be finished products, but should be used as a springboard for LEGO to produce a real live LEGO set. I love that the original inspired the designers to come up with something really cool.

These two assholes got what they deserved...

and deprive your self from all the inappropriate terms, insults, mudslinging and racism ?

by "Lego store" do you mean your basement? All retail stores have been closed

The county next to mine has a shelter in place order but there are so many business exceptions it makes it mostly meaningless. My nieces husband works for a company that makes and installs hot tubs and they were deemed to be essential. 😆 There is no enforcement and no penalty for violating so what is the point really.

Well I am so happy that 25 million was approved for the Kennedy Center in the bill. 😑 That money could have helped quite a few small businesses pay their employees and mortgage...As for the discussion above about essential businesses, I happen to own one and right now it's really tough. We cut our staff in half and our business has dropped about 50%. I guess I am lucky to be open, yet everyday I risk getting infected. But I have no alternative. I have to try and keep my employees with some sort of paycheck and my mortgage paid. I have my doubts if we will see any help at all from this stimulus package. While I realize we have to flatten the curve, we also will have to slowly ramp up the economy and open up businesses in areas that can do it relatively safely.

What would have been an appropriate, or optimal, response and when? I'm not asking as a gotcha question, I'm legitimately curious what you would have liked to see done.

Humming the theme to The Goonies for some reason;)

I’m just here for the uncomfortable silences.

Good god, how do I remove this from showing up on the home page? This is reading like the comment sections on some elderly Facebook page.

I have a healthy concern for his ability to inflict widespread pain and suffering on people. Why don’t you?

I haven't been too excited for a new LEGO release in a looooong time, but I'm all over this set! Doesn't help that I'm a biased Pirates fan though...

Just a brief update to let you in on what I have been up to. I have some of the main price guide pages laid out and starting to wire everything together to make those pages functional. I am using a new design so it takes time to lay it out and make sense. I am not trying for total perfection since I am trying to get the site out to every one as soon as possible and will push updates over time to add more and fix things. Next up will be the Brickfolio so that I can get the site active for you all to have access to your data again. Today I am actually working on updating the Amazon code. I received call from Amazon on Friday asking me to please upgrade and convert my code to their new API. I really appreciate that they did that. I have known about it and they sent quite a few emails, but the fact that they reached out was very cool. I need to get this done or they will shut down any of the code that helps the daily deals feed (whether you love or hate it).

My wife works for the USPS. They are still open in Massachusetts. Every day she comes home in disbelief because a majority of her customers still come in everyday to get their 1 or 2 pieces of 3rd class mail. Or to mail out "important" stuff. Most of her customers are 65+ as well and don't seem to care. I won't get in to how inept her superiors are. They aren't even talking about closing down.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/usps-statement-on-coronavirus.htm Hightlight from the above link "In addition, the Postal Service is an essential service for purposes of its compliance with state or municipality shelter-in-place orders or other social distancing restrictions."

Official CMF S20 images have been released. These look great! https://brickset.com/article/49334/collectable-minifigures-series-20-official-images!