In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment

To teaudio's point, 99.9% of people who read Car and Driver, Motor Trend or Road & Track will every own a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or McClaren, but that is what people want to read about. I am probably never going to own or fly a Mach 2 fighter jet either, but I like reading about them.

I wonder if this firing was truly about refusing to manipulate the data, or the general aversion to a competent government employee .. by other government employees :-). Old Japanese proverb, "The nail that stick up shall be hammered down".

geoffkait21,923 posts05-20-2020 7:32amJust as I suspected all along,

A scientist who created a dashboard for monitoring Florida’s rising number of COVID-19 cases said she’s been fired for refusing to manipulate the data.

I assume by exposed, you mean you had an actual confirmed Covid19 diagnosis?

Two clicks worse than a cold does not take out 25-50% of the residents in a nursing home. During WW2, I wonder if American's considered it "giving up their civil rights", when certain critical resources had to be allocated?  No doubt, some of them whined then too.

mijostyn2,133 posts05-20-2020 10:38amAs for the virus, it is a sad day when Americans forfeit their civil rights for a disease two clicks worse than a cold.
I'm 66. I got myself exposed, had a minor cough and now I am totally immune and can not give the disease to anyone else.

About 250,000 Ferraris and Lambos ever made, estimate 50% still on road = 125,000 but average owner actually has 2, so perhaps 62,500 current owners.  Total current audience of all those magazine is ~ 20 million. Let's be generous and say 1/2 of owners are regular readers = (1-31,250 / 20,000,000) * 100 = 99.84% .... sorry for my mistake, I will better account for that 0.06% next time :-)

geoffkait21,924 posts05-20-2020 12:43pmYou’re not really good with numbers, are you?

Maybe when health care workers walk off the job people will get the message that this is not a joke?

geoffkait21,956 posts05-21-2020 11:42amMD VA FL CT statistics for today look bad already and it’s not even lunchtime. Shut the cave door and back to pigmy country!

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

If you believe this, then you are miss-allocating your funds. $20K is not bare-bones, unless you are wasting a ton of money of audio jewellery and not things that will really make a difference, like speakers, room acoustics, a tolerable source and amp.

a $20,000 audio system, which is bare-bones today