Price isn't based on cost. (Good) pricing is based on value and what someone is willing-to-pay. Right now people are willing to pay more because the value that masks create is higher.
As to the question of if a price is fair, that's different. It's fair if the market thinks it's fair and pays the price.
Separate the message from the messenger. There is a cost-benefit analysis to be made AT SOME POINT. Putting the economy into recession or depression will cost lives and wreck lives for years to come. COVID-19 is also awful. Which is worse?
It's possible, but drawing an exponential curve from a handful of datapoints is a fool's errand. Doesn't take into account a whole host of confounding variables in the equation that have not been present in the data to this point, assuming deaths lag infection by several weeks, e.g. social/physical distancing, new treatment regimens, etc.
Let me get this straight: You've identified a guy who clearly has mental issues, and you're crawling around in his attic, alone, to somehow use logic to try to convince the crazy guy that he isn't crazy.
Do you have a death wish?
Let's drop the pretense that if the (D)'s win they won't do this, or it will be "measured." They will absolutely do this if they have the ablity to do it, the question is do they go to 11, 13, or 15? Then how far beyond that does the next (R) President go? I believe we'll get to around 57 SCOTUS justices in my lifetime.
Looks like my friend Donna Imam who is running in TX31 as a (D) made it through some of the gauntlet of 7 (D)'s running in the primary to land in the top 2 for a runoff vs. Christine Eday Mann. You can learn more about Donna's campaign here: votefordonna.com
We’ve reached max pander with the reparations discussion. Kinda surprised that the giveaway king Bernie didn’t get there first, since he’s giving us everything else for free!
Crystal ball time ... So Klobuchar and Steyer drop out after Super Tuesday. Warren shortly after. Klobuchar’s people go to Biden Steyer’s go to Biden Warren’s go to Bernie Then Pete drops and his people go to Biden. Final three Biden, Bloomberg, Bernie. Bernie wins clear plurality. Biden takes nom on 2nd ballot, weakest winner in Democrat history. Bros stay home in general pouting. Trump re-elected.
The amount of sweet, sweet tears I'll be here to lap up from the Bernie supporters will be fun when he loses on the 2nd ballot of the convention, following the rules and processes he agreed to by running as a Democrat.
There aren't many center-right Republicans who want to ban guns or tell you what size slurpy you can order at 7-11. He's a big government guy, he's liberal on many issues and the only reason anyone would think he's "center-right" is because the Democratic field has swerved so far to the left that they knocked over the guardrail on the way to Sweden.
I think we all have seen experienced similar. In my experience HOA boards forget that they're not JUST about enforcement, they're also about making reasonable judgement calls - in fact that is their primary purpose, or should be! When I see HOAs veering too far over to enforcement it's usually for one or more of a few reasons:
People on the board get off on control or conflict and are using it as a power play
The "noisy 5%" of the community has taken over and is terrorizing the other 95% via the HOA (aka little old lady syndrome)
There are one or more lawyers on the HOA board who enjoy shit like Robert's Rules and writing nastygrams
The HOA was set up incorrectly to start with and requires insane requirements to change anything; I was in a HOA once that required 80% of the ENTIRE community to vote in favor of any rule change. Average voter participation in the board meetings: 2%, average vote by mail participation: 5%... Effectively the rules were frozen in place for eternity.
I just don't buy the argument of "but if we make an exception here that locks us into making exceptions elsewhere!" ...because it simply isn't true. Exceptions are just that, exceptions. A functional HOA can and should be empowered to make exceptions as needed. The residents have the power to address those exceptions by replacing the HOA leadership each year if they don't like the judgement calls that they make. My $0.02.
Um, the elected HOA president and the elected members of the HOA board? Don't we have representation for exactly this reason, to make reasonable rules and apply human common sense and judgement in situations exactly like this?
If not, we don't really need HOAs, we just need computers since every rule is now black/white.