A buddy told me about wish.com: the website that sells lots of cool stuff for dirty cheap. Over the weekend I went on there and ordered an emblem for my JL, some decals, and a bunch of other Jeep swag. At the time of placing the order they showed 2-3 week delivery window.
I checked again this morning, delivery times are now 2-3 MONTHS! Worse, once you place the order, they don’t accept cancelations. So now I am stuck with some very nice winter jackets arriving in the middle of summer...!
Separately, I am shopping for wheels for my Fiat 124 Spider. Went to Discount Tire yesterday: they called Konig to check on stock. There’s none and they have a 3-month wait time on their wheels coming from China! Which is, like, ALL of their wheels.
So be careful before you hit “Place Order” for your Jeep parts. You may get stuck waiting for months. Literally.
Yep.. situation in China not good. We manufacture in China for the China market (also import into China, but don't export), and people are being told to stay home. I have an associate here in US, her father works for the Chinese government in education - government has him going door-to-door taking peoples temperatures.
Our travel restrictions have extended to Hong Kong & South Korea.
I tell my Wife this thing is a big nothing sandwich ... Basing my opinion on the history of our "fear this" media machine.
I have no doubt we aren't getting anywhere near a complete factual representation.
Currently my opinion is that the fear/panic will cause the greatest impact.
The flu has hit half a million and killed over 16,000 and we don't bat an eye.
I dunno... you see that dude in Iran with sweat pouring down his face during the public announcement? Soon after, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 virus...
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Hairichi went on television to tell reporters that the government had the nation’s coronavirus outbreak completely under control.
Ninety-percent of high-performance wheels are made in China these days. The same is true of most of the clothing we buy.
In Jeep world, most of Smittybilt, Pro Comp, and a good chunk of Quadratec’s own brand of products come from China. So is Warns best-selling VR line of winches.
Thankfully the Chinese get their food from us, or we’d be really screwed.
China city streets, malls and stations are reported to be deserted as people are being told to stay home to avoid unnecessary exposure. That's got to be weird.
Eerily empty streets as coronavirus panic grips Chinese cities
An empty street is seen in Wuhan, centre of the recent coronavirus outbreak in Hubei province, China
Dead man lies on an empty street at China's virus ground zero
Guys, my wife and I work in a hospital in Canada. My wife knows a Dr. pretty well. He is scared as hell. Told her to take the good masks home. N95. I hope he’s wrong. I’m just not sure other countries are prepared. Be careful.
Either way, fear comes from the unknown. We know the flu: we know with good approximation the rate at which it spreads and the rate at which kills. We are still figuring out both for this one. Even if 0.5% is low, the underlying question is out of how many? That number seems to catch everyone by surprise every morning.
People feel concern because health authorities are not able to detect this virus in time. In most cases, it is reporting a 5-day incubation, which gives it plenty of opportunity to spread. When a case is finally identified inside a country, it means tens of thousands have already been infected.
This one is impacting us more directly than any I can remember. Chances are your 401k has taken a severe beating over the past few days. I know mine has. Chances are you have friends and/or relatives who have canceled travel plans due to this. I have both.
Worse, soon you will be told that you have to wait three months for those Jeep parts you were planning to install in the spring... :jawdrop:
Yes, it's taking off. It's called a corona virus because it works like the common cold. Just as easy to catch, and there's no such thing as immunity because it mutates rapidly enough to outsmart us.
I thought we were looking at a death rate of 3%. Since it mutates every year, that's 3% every year, not just a one-time hit. This is the game-changer.
This was all well-known in the scientific community, but realistically our government didn't try to stop the global outbreak this time like they did with sars. Just going through the motions to fool most people, all the while knowing that their half-steps were insufficient. I'm not proposing anything now, it's too late to stop this train wreck.
The fundamental defect of government is that the people hired to run it are incompetent, unethical, uncaring, and mean-spirited.
School administrators in Orange County California have already been notified to begin preparation for school closures -- my source indicated they've been told the entire month of April.
Our federal and state governments are clueless... trying to relocate infected patients to a facility deemed insufficient to house the homeless.
Dr. Mark Segal (sp) was on just a day or so ago. Standing in an airport in front of Air China ... despite ALL the panic and blah blah from the politicians he points right at the board "On-Time" flights to and from China through NYC - Amazing. And for those doubters of B.S. stupidity read the NY Post article they wrote a few days ago about Wuhan and China's (ONE_ level 4 BioLab in all of China.
Three guesses where it's located.
I couldn't believe what I was reading. Especially about the Scientists selling the Dogs and Rats that were used in the BioLab experiments to the Live Market vendors for human consumption to "make a few bucks"....unbelieveable.
* Pence is on Rush's show now. Stating that unprecedented "never done ever before" ALL flights to/from China were Cancelled back in early January. Hmmm somebody ain't telling the whole truth. I think Pence is a nice guy. Segal seems like a nice guy too.
There was that Flight status board right there and that was only a few days ago....
There are some real shit holes on this planet. I can't even imagine trying to explain this to the Men in my Family if they came back for a day long ago laid to rest.
It would start with me trying to explain that up until recently Two(2) of those areas were responsible for practically Everything we (America) needs to survive and just a blip could have brought us to our knees after the strategic reserves ran out (2 months maybe) now it's just one region that hold the cards on critical things like medication(s) including life saving antibiotics.
Regions that play lip service and say the right things all the while literally hating us, our way of life and our people.
Yet we continue to do business, smile and shake hands with them.
It would be an impossible conversation to try and make sense of and frankly I'd sound like a liar or an idiot doing it.
Thankfully I only have to try and answer my kids when we discuss such things but they are all grown now and pretty much know the truths already...
Regions that play lip service and say the right things all the while literally hating us, our way of life and our people.
Yet we continue to do business, smile and shake hands with them.
And we, collectively, did it all to ourselves. One cheap, disposable, extruded plastic doodad at a time. When 98% of the consumer base would rather pay $1.99 to a borderline socioeconomic enemy than $2.99 to their own country, "manufacturers" have no choice but to move operations overseas.
You make a cogent point, you and I know it's more complex than time and space allow to discuss.
I'm not alone (here) as a Jeeper as well as broad based consumer needing, wanting and buying things all the time.
I look every time during my period of due diligence when contemplating a purchase of any size sometimes a plastic Doo dad.
I look first at whether I have a "made in the USA" flag. If I find it my trip is over.
Add to cart or drive to store. And I buy it.
I'm saddened when a good company represented by a good vendor has an item I want and I only can buy a made in shithole x,y or z.
I don't not buy it. I buy it and if it's non-USA it's because I had no choice.
Doesn't make me better or more woke than anyone that I feel bad about feeding the monster but there are more monsters than I have bullets.
This system we two leggers have allowed to misbehave like a spoiled 2 year old better correct or the future is easily seen.
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