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I think any given service on this earth is expected to have some degree of delay during a once a century global pandemic. People out there can't even buy basic

by fiblye 7y ago

I think any given service on this earth is expected to have some degree of delay during a once a century global pandemic. People out there can't even buy basic life necessities in stores. It may be a little unfair, but it's not really the time to think a $120/year membership means someone should be put at the front of the line to order whatever they want and constantly push others trying to get their necessities to the back of the line. It's better to hope everybody is getting their hand sanitizer and toilet paper at an equally expedient time, instead of hoping Prime members and Prime members alone can order a new package daily and have it arrive in a timely fashion. Yellowstone could potentially blow during our lifetime as well. I doubt most companies have that factored into their contracts, and I wouldn't hold it against them if they didn't.

kfrzcode 7y ago
* 2020 - SARS-CoV-2 * 2009 - H1N1, 500k dead * 1968 - H3N2, 1mm dead * 1958 - H2N2, 1.5-2mm dead * 1918 - H1N1, 50mm dead * 1890 - H3N8/H2N2 (?), 1mm dead * 1580-1880 - Influenza pandemics reported every ten to thirty years Let's hope and pray to our lesser gods that it's not as bad as the 1918 pandemic. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11576290/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11576290/ https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources
smolder 7y ago
Business don't need to survive Black swan events. If they fail that's fine. If they can't fail without irreparable harm, there's a bigger problem. We don't have anything resembling a free market when there are irreplaceable businesses.
natch 7y ago
Absolutely, we agree and I thought I had covered the impossibility of the logistics in my comment. However what I was wondering about is whether Amazon will keep collecting the fee. Just as a reminder, they are pretty wealthy as a corporation, and the fee is collected in exchange for something that they understandably cannot provide.

by fiblye 7y ago

kfrzcode 7y ago

* 2020 - SARS-CoV-2 * 2009 - H1N1, 500k dead * 1968 - H3N2, 1mm dead * 1958 - H2N2, 1.5-2mm dead * 1918 - H1N1, 50mm dead * 1890 - H3N8/H2N2 (?), 1mm dead * 1580-1880 - Influenza pandemics reported every ten to thirty years Let's hope and pray to our lesser gods that it's not as bad as the 1918 pandemic. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11576290/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11576290/ https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources

smolder 7y ago

Business don't need to survive Black swan events. If they fail that's fine. If they can't fail without irreparable harm, there's a bigger problem. We don't have anything resembling a free market when there are irreplaceable businesses.

natch 7y ago

Absolutely, we agree and I thought I had covered the impossibility of the logistics in my comment. However what I was wondering about is whether Amazon will keep collecting the fee. Just as a reminder, they are pretty wealthy as a corporation, and the fee is collected in exchange for something that they understandably cannot provide.