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The arrival of the novel coronavirus and subsequent shutdowns of economies across the globe have caused hardships not seen in generations. But for business professors, it's also a once-in-a-generation research opportunity.
USC Marshall Assistant Professor of Marketing and Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration Davide Proserpio was one of the first academics to study the sharing economy as he completed his Ph.D. Today he is considered a leading expert in the so-called "gig" economy. We asked him five questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown are affecting the sector.
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:08PM (23 children)
This was just announced...
County health officials are recommending that everyone who participates in a protest should consider getting tested for COVID-19 as they are at higher risk.
Looks like the idiots demonstrating just fucked up the curve. Expecting a shitstorm...
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:18PM (4 children)
Weren't you assholes bleating about yuhr freedums just a few weeks ago? Saying grandma and grandpa have to die for the economy?
Either you magorons are stupider than ae thought or we seriously underestimated the infestation of shills
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:20PM (2 children)
The rate at which they need to directly reverse their position from the previously held one seems to be increasing in frequency.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:24PM (1 child)
It is your position you need be concerned about. The deeper you push your head in the sand, the more vulnerable the other end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:18PM
So you admit you're running around trying to fuck people in the ass? Oooo kaaaay
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:47AM
The people protesting the lockdown just wanted to work, so they're nazis, while the people wanting to loot and burn neighborhoods to the ground are in it for critical social change that affects us all. Anyone who can't see that is definitely a moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:22PM (11 children)
I expect nothing much to happen. One thing I'm glad for the rioters to have done was interrupting the Covid-19 scaremongering on MSM.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:30PM
The talking head will invent some "explanation" for nothing happening, never fear. Something about "righteous anger having anti-virus properties" or somesuch. Doublethink is the road to success.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:57PM (9 children)
Where, exactly, has there been rioting (police attacking peaceful protestors doesn't count) in the last ten days or so?
The people in the streets are peaceful protestors, not rioters.
Whether or not it's a good idea to gather in large groups during a pandemic is a reasonable question to ask.
But painting the hundreds of thousands (every) of peaceful protestors as "rioters" is just dishonest. For shame!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:26AM (4 children)
A CNN employee on SN? Could you give Brian Stelter a wedgie live on air?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:41AM (3 children)
That's all you've got? Really?
Please try to do better. You're giving partisan hacks a bad name.
The funniest part is that I *never* watch CNN. Or Fox. Or MSNBC.
Once in a while I'll watch DW News [dw.com] or BBC News [bbc.co.uk].
Or are they on the Communist/ANTIFA/fake news bandwagon too?
Should I now be beaten until I just pay attention to jackass' twitter feed, Alex Jones, OANN and other absolute arbiters of truth?
This has been nice. But be a good boy and run along. The adults want to have a conversation.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @02:36AM
Was that a yes or a no?
PS: The US riots of peace didn't stop until weekend when the European riots of peace started.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @02:48AM (1 child)
Adults have been discussing Vanilla ISIS [city-journal.org] for some time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:59PM
Except there hasn't been any violence there except police attacking peaceful protestors. Now that the police are no longer doing so, there's no more violence. I'll say it again since reading comprehension appears to be lacking on your part: Police attacking peaceful protestors is *not* rioting.
https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/In-the-new-Capitol-Hill-Autonomous-Zone-15330353.php [seattlepi.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone [wikipedia.org]
https://www.newsweek.com/seattle-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-chaz-protests-1510141 [newsweek.com]
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37944&op=Reply&page=1&pid=1006140#post_comment [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:50AM
There are people with guns guarding checkpoints into the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle right now.
https://mynorthwest.com/1935411/seattle-demontrators-checkpoint-chaz/ [mynorthwest.com]
Yes, all the weirdest out-there shit happens between here and Portland first, but rest assured, you'll be getting it in the next 5-10 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:12PM (2 children)
Portsmouth, Virginia. Virginia Beach, Virginia. Hampton, Virginia.
Look harder.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:48PM
All more than a week ago. Like I said.
https://www.google.com/search?q=rioting+in+virginia&client=firefox-b-1-e&gbv=1&sei=s1HiXuq3H-6GwbkPwtC1gA8 [google.com]
Where is it happening *now*?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:48PM
All more than a week ago. Like I said.
https://www.google.com/search?q=rioting+in+virginia&client=firefox-b-1-e&gbv=1&sei=s1HiXuq3H-6GwbkPwtC1gA8 [google.com]
Where is it happening *now*?
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:54PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @11:13PM (1 child)
Yet.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:38PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:54AM (1 child)
The protests are a boon for Trump if he plays it right (questionable):
1) No spike -- he tells everyone he was right all along and this was just a Democrat plot to torpedo the economy, a plot so egregious they didn't care if they put millions out of work.
2) Spike -- he points out how cut off air travel from China and how it was all the most blue of the blue who decided to go out and protest and endanger the health of the citizens and the economy by extension. That they put their ideology before science, almost as if by design to create a hellscape in the hopes of winning an election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:21PM
Trump did not cut off people coming in from China. He only cut off Chinese nationals.
Around 45,000 people came in during his *supposed* ban. He then did the same with Europe and mostly recently with Brazil.
His travels bans for Corona virus are not effective. They are just for show.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:11PM
Actually, they need this narrative to make it look like demonstrators are causing a second wave of coronavirus... not the poor planning of opening up states too soon.
admittedly, it is some of both... but they will never accept the least amount of blame on themselves.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P