Problem solved!
But how poor has this Coronavirus Apocalypse made you and whom do you blame? City officials frothing with newfound powers, closing businesses, parks, beaches, etc. just because they can? State officials making obscene plays for the presidencies and prime ministerships? Presidents and Prime Ministers frozen by fear or China, where this novel disease was first synthesized and released out into the world?
The surf industry, made even poorer than you and I, might never fully recover from this blow. Dirk Ziff, owner of professional surfing and co-Waterperson of the Year, could easily pack his remaining pennies and skulk off. Erik Logan, professional surfing’s chief executive, could continue his dream of becoming Instagram famous. Rip Curl, Quiksilver, Volcom could shut doors and congratulate themselves on a few fun decades. Board builders could go back to doing it part-time alongside long haul trucking.
Well, what if that same surf industry got progressive, like the Germany’s largest newspaper Bild and simply invoiced China for damages?
On Wednesday in an article titled “What China owes us,” the newspaper created an itemized invoice of damages from the pandemic. The items on the list included €24 billion in lost tourism revenue from March to April, €7.2 billion in losses for the German film industry, €1 million per hour in costs for Lufthansa, and €50 billion in lost profits for German small businesses.
The total losses came to a total of €149 billion, which the newspaper estimated caused a 4.2 percent drop in Germany’s GDP. It said that such a drop would amount to a loss of €1,784 per person.
That same day, the Chinese Embassy in Berlin responded by claiming that the estimate of damages printed in the newspaper “stirs up nationalism, prejudice, xenophobia, and hostility to China.”
How did editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt respond?
In a searing open letter to China’s President Xi Jinping.
Very fine, inspired, and if Germany’s bill equals €149 billion what do you think the surf industry is owed?
€149 and seven bars of Sticky Bumps wax?
€1490 and a promise from Fernando Aguerre to apologize for all his “Olympic” antics?
€14,900 and an artistically powerful piece of artwork featuring Dirk Ziff kissing Harv Weinstein?
€149,000 and enough Hurley skin toner to keep Erik Logan looking sharp all year?
Other ideas?
Yep close the Unemployment and foodstamp office to be fair?
It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. I’m wondering if the next symbolic “F You” will be to recognize Taiwan. Wouldn’t that be fun???
isnt snake patterson the manager for quicksilver asia? im sure he has his hands deep in the shit over there..
Wow
I miss Joey.
So pumping!!
He stole that export line from Derek!
I love to beloved!
I’d rather invoice trump his cabinet and his extended family. Piece of shit worthless employees. They should all be fired and sodomized in prison
hou brah don’t get me started. If it wasn’t for the bubbling bong of beauty in front of me I might have to get irate. But did you notice that all the politicians and civil service workers here that are still getting a paycheck and happily slurping off the tax tit are the first ones to shout down the struggling oppressed masses ? When small business and all the non government braddahs and sistas with their keiki have no paycheck, food or schooling? More worse is this inept corrupt state can’t/won’t even process any unemployment checks.
Bofus already know what an entrenched old-boy deeply corrupt state this is. If it wasn’t for the ability to surf and bake I’d be stormin’ the castle and cracking heads.
Country is pumping and town is due tomorrow too w/more light trades … cheehoo …
oh yeah I heard about Loves bakery shutting down. I sure could use one of those coconut crunch mini donut puppies right now. yum
Don’t know about over there but over here it’s almost 4:20 on 4/20
Time to burn me a fatty
https://youtu.be/QfxqfPe36uM
I hope the surf industry is totally reamed when/a if this thing ever finishes. That the WSL and all the sticker surfers go broke and surf culture becomes something real as opposed to what it was for the last 50 years- greedy fat old men ripping off kids for a buck while being celebrated by their mates in the surf media as surfings greatest hero’s.
This is a great time for surfing too reset and all the advertiser’s and accountants and lawyers and blog makers and brand focus groups and athletes and Val’s and surf coaches to just fuck right off out of the ocean and let us just surf deserted lineups without the hype.
No way man
I love the contests.
It’s the only sport I enjoy watching
I used to love others but now they bore me to tears.
It’s really weird.
Maybe I’m really weird.
You can still love the contest. But it’s not real, it’s not surfing, it’s all one big illusion that Ziff and a history of other middle men are trying to package up and sanitise so as to sell more product to more people.
Surf culture doesn’t exist.
None of it. One sneeze and it just disappear
It’s real bro
Been world champs since the 70s.
You gotta be good to get in them and then be the best to win them.
This WSL media shit is just fluff I couldn’t care less about.
Its only what you ” perceive” as being “real”. Like a rainbow is “real” but nothing more than a optical illusion.
This is what Elo is employed to do. Create a illusion you perceive as the truth. It means nothing if you buy into the fluff or not. His got you, his done his job!
All the waves ridden in a contest would still have been ridden contests or not and possibly by the same surfers just minus their coloured straight jacket.
Surfing has no culture beyond the dollar.
But that’s not surfing, surfing is pure, it is the truth it’s just corrupted by business.
I’m been studying a lot lately, sick of watching meat wagons collect the dead in my neighbourhood.
Death is real too. The ultimate truth.
You have to try and make sense of this, each in our own way. But I can guarantee you pro surfing isn’t real. It’s a job, a circus with magic and illustrations and a never ending Congo line of clowns
Wrong
A rainbow is light and water.
Gmed makes them on his top turns.
Theyre real as fuk!!!
Dude stfu
Today, after tough negotiations, which played out transparently on Beach Grit by the People™, we can now announce a new found Alliance* between Australia and the United States in which the two Great Nations have joined in calling for an International Investigation into China’s culpability regarding the Chinese Wuhan Kung-Flu Lung AIDS Virus. Without the tireless efforts of the commentariot at Beach Grit, we could not say that such a partnership would be a reality.
*not a Walliance which is currently in negotiations between Santa Monica based WSL and Santa Monica-adjacent journalistic platforms.
When are you coming over to my place for bat soup and a quick fling?
My first ever board was shaped by a long haul trucker, fact. Shout out to Seafever
Morning Star
Onya Col!!
Good pedigree.
It was a twinny
I actually had a waterlogged single fin before that but Noone put their name to it.
I think I found it at kimbriki tip
A German demanding that Chinese pay reparations for damage done. What does that remind me of again?
It reminds you that irony is alive and well in the 21st century.
How you doing in all this JH?
Hi Negs…all is well. They closed the Long Beach boardwalk but the beach itself is still open so we can go out and walk on it. I haven’t been in to Manhattan but I can imagine it is just as quiet as here. Family and friends are okay as well so all in all we have been pretty lucky.
Question
Why bother with Shark Surf stories
8 shark clicks vs 200 political clicks
Beltway Grit!!
Thank me later.
The computer modelling for this virus has been found to be so far wrong as to think the computer used was itself infected with a batfink virus.
So glass half full
Climate change models almost certainly wrong as well.
That’s awesome!!
How much government debt does China own?
If governments were smart and had balls they’s just cancel the debt and tell China to fuck off.
And one US senator has already called for it.
Let’s see if they have the balls to carry through or if it’s just posturing.
More proof that we’ve had covid in California much longer than thought and the mortality rate is miniscule
https://www.google.com/amp/…
The point though is not about the mortality rate – it’s very likely much lower than the numbers suggest.
The point of this whole quarantine was to not overwhelm the healthcare system since hospitalization rates with this are pretty high.
I think you were the first to bring that up here and it’s a very good point. It should’ve been brought up on the news and by all the talking heads.. After you brought it up, I would explain that to people and most would say “oh yeah, makes sense, didn’t think of that aspect”. I’m not sure if you read some of my comments on here about how severely sick a lot of people I know personally were starting in mid-late January around San Diego, so the studies (if accurate) kind of confirm what a lot of people suspected. Not downplaying the seriousness of it because it is highly contagious so more people get it which leads to more overall deaths.
Hopefully this piece of the puzzle can lead to a better understanding of covid and how we should proceed with rationale and caution as we open things up. Thanks, wtf!
Absolutely agree. I was amazed when talking about this that people don’t seem to understand that our systems/resources are finite. I certainly would not want to be the person who has to decide who lives/dies.
Anecdotally I have a friend who was severely sick back in Oct with breathing issues one of the symptoms – tested for flu but came back negative. His neighbor next door also had a flu like illness in mid-Feb that was tested for flu but came back negative. To muddle the waters though, our area had both flu a and flu b come through that we know via testing. It was around late Nov that the first flu wave hit followed by a 2nd flu wave late January. Something flu-like went through 4/5 of us in my family early March, and it very well could have been covid-19, but they were only testing people who had recently traveled overseas at that point. Someone in the same hugely crowded place we were two days prior, contracted CV and died a week later.
Widespread, large scale antibody testing is what is needed now – the sooner the better so we can confidently get back to normal. We can smartly start pressing the throttle to start opening back up, but realize we may need to pump the brakes a few times as we get back up to speed.
“I think you were the first to bring that up here and it’s a very good point. It should’ve been brought up on the news and by all the talking heads..” you’re joking right?
No. The local news and NBC, CBS, ABC, union tribune didnt give that aspect any airplay
The worlds outstanding debt to China is approximately 1,500,000,000,000 (1.5 trillion USD) meaning you could buy 2 billion 142 million 857 thousand and 142 JS Monsta Box’s (assuming you pay retail) that if lined up nose to tail would go to the moon and back 1056 times.
That’s the kind of “new math” and critical thinking the world needs right now!
(on a serious note…I knew it was probably close to a trillion but wasn’t sure. In theory it would be as “easy” as the Treasury Department voiding out the T-Bills China own.)
A line so long it would fuel an entire Rip Curl team Xmas party
Haha! Or one Mick Fleetwood