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If it isn't flu what is it?
Asian Coronavirus Outbreak
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timsk
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I've heard it's an antidote to the woke virus; once you've had it you're cured of wokeness. If you're too far gone with the woke virus - the coronavirus puts you out of your misery and you shuffle off to woke heaven.
If anyone's interested, I'm starting a business making face masks for all face sizes and shapes - with or without beards. I'm seeking investors: £100k in return for 1% of the business. Please form an orderly queue.
On a (marginally) more serious note, my step-son returned yesterday from a three day work trip to Italy - and he's feeling rough as rats. This morning my wife asked me if I thought we ought to tell our (woke) friends who are hosting a dinner party tomorrow night that we can't attend. You can guess what my answer was!
Tim.
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Check this out ! Could end your budding romance. What will I do Sat nights ?
MasterOfCoin
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There's nothing like a good snog to transfer several billion germs between the snoggers !
How do you think Herpes became so universally endemic in the entire population.
Order pizza and binge out on the sofa with a good movie instead.
MasterOfCoin
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.... or you could be planning which assets to liquidate into funds ready to snap up bargains next week
London's FTSE 100 share index has seen its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008 as markets continue to reel from the impact of the coronavirus. Shares have shed almost 13% of their value, wiping as £210bn from the value of companies on the index.
Suspect there will be whole flocks of Vultures circling about come Monday's early morning thermals.
London's FTSE 100 share index has seen its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008 as markets continue to reel from the impact of the coronavirus. Shares have shed almost 13% of their value, wiping as £210bn from the value of companies on the index.
Suspect there will be whole flocks of Vultures circling about come Monday's early morning thermals.
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There's nothing like a good snog to transfer several billion germs between the snoggers !
How do you think Herpes became so universally endemic in the entire population.
Order pizza and binge out on the sofa with a good movie instead.
Netflix n chill.
Signalcalc
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Look at the death rate in Iran, 3rd world countries will suffer the most.
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Hmm.
Unrelated cases now being reported.
OK i'm convinced, no way to contain this without implementing a total crackdown and this is the UK so it won't happen.
Unrelated cases now being reported.
OK i'm convinced, no way to contain this without implementing a total crackdown and this is the UK so it won't happen.
Coronavirus: Thirteen more cases confirmed in UK
Scotland's first diagnosis is among the new cases, along with 12 more patients from England.
www.bbc.co.uk
counter_violent
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Iran and the wider Middle East could become the new epicenter for the virus.
Italy is troublesome given that the whole of Europe has no borders.
South Korea another hotspot.
Just wait while the US catches up.
It's looking like shorts all the way from here on.
I suspect the central banks will offer some stimulus soon in a half arsed attempt to limit the economic damage. This policy will undoubtedly fail because the global supply chains and travel will be massively affected.
Italy is troublesome given that the whole of Europe has no borders.
South Korea another hotspot.
Just wait while the US catches up.
It's looking like shorts all the way from here on.
I suspect the central banks will offer some stimulus soon in a half arsed attempt to limit the economic damage. This policy will undoubtedly fail because the global supply chains and travel will be massively affected.
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I'm not worried in a health sense Pat but the repercussions in an economic sense will be massive.
Just waiting now for WHO to declare pandemic status. Then the sh1t really hits the fan!
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WHO don't put out stories like this for no reason.
A few softener up bits of advice before declaring pandemic status is my guess.
www.mirror.co.uk
A few softener up bits of advice before declaring pandemic status is my guess.
People aged over 60 urged to avoid crowded places to halt spread of coronavirus
People aged 60 years old and above have a higher risk of contracting Covid-19 coronavirus if they go to crowded areas and they should avoid anywhere they could pick up the virus, the World Health Organisation says
www.mirror.co.uk
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Be of good cheer!
Eat, drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
(Isaiah and Luke, apparently)
....and just in case some of us make it through to next w/e, here's some reading on historical (hysterical?) pandemics to make us merrier still.
investoramnesia.com
I was amused to read how during the NY cholera epidemic the Bears seemed to feel swindled by the lack of doom in that the arriving plague ships were not as deadly as advertised.
Eat, drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
(Isaiah and Luke, apparently)
....and just in case some of us make it through to next w/e, here's some reading on historical (hysterical?) pandemics to make us merrier still.
Pandemics & Markets
We dive into the history of global pandemics, from the Black Death to Spanish Influenza, and how they have affected markets.
I was amused to read how during the NY cholera epidemic the Bears seemed to feel swindled by the lack of doom in that the arriving plague ships were not as deadly as advertised.
counter_violent
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Be of good cheer!
Eat, drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
(Isaiah and Luke, apparently)
....and just in case some of us make it through to next w/e, here's some reading on historical (hysterical?) pandemics to make us merrier still.
Pandemics & Markets
We dive into the history of global pandemics, from the Black Death to Spanish Influenza, and how they have affected markets.
I was amused to read how during the NY cholera epidemic the Bears seemed to feel swindled by the lack of doom in that the arriving plague ships were not as deadly as advertised.
Fear not, we will all be here next week. 🤭
Irritating author can't sort "effects" from "affects".....grrrrrrrrr.
And finally.
We also find some evidence in our broad sample that more modest crashes exhibit the opposite dynamic. Declines on the order of -10% to -20% are more likely to be followed by another decline.
Note the average decline thus far 15%
Nuff said.....i'm shorting relief rallies.
The usual fatality rate of seasonal flu that we see every year is about 0.1%. So covid-19 is multiple times more dangerous if contracted than flu.
The 1918-20 Spanish flu epidemic had a fatality rate of 2-3% and killed at least 1.7% of the world's population. In the US, 28% of the population became ill: across the globe it could have been as high as 50%. Spanish Flu differed from what is known about covid-19 so far in that it was more dangerous to the young than other age groups: covid-19 appears more dangerous to the elderly (plus the immuno-suppressed already suffering from other ailments).
This could be a good time for some serious planning what to do if there is a panic.
The 1918-20 Spanish flu epidemic had a fatality rate of 2-3% and killed at least 1.7% of the world's population. In the US, 28% of the population became ill: across the globe it could have been as high as 50%. Spanish Flu differed from what is known about covid-19 so far in that it was more dangerous to the young than other age groups: covid-19 appears more dangerous to the elderly (plus the immuno-suppressed already suffering from other ailments).
This could be a good time for some serious planning what to do if there is a panic.
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Quick thoughts...
Buy artificial lung machines
Reduction in social care budgets
Increased expenditure on family planning and other cash starved budgets
Increase in government revenue from IHT
Increase in disposable income from Inheritance
NHS could sacrifice vulnerable patients' critical care for coronavirus
Under 'Three Wise Men' protocol, senior medics would need to decipher which patients to give care such as ventilators and beds to, with a focus on saving those most likely to recover.
counter_violent
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Quick thoughts...
Buy artificial lung machines
Reduction in social care budgets
Increased expenditure on family planning and other cash starved budgets
Increase in government revenue from IHT
Increase in disposable income from Inheritance
NHS could sacrifice vulnerable patients' critical care for coronavirus
Under 'Three Wise Men' protocol, senior medics would need to decipher which patients to give care such as ventilators and beds to, with a focus on saving those most likely to recover.www.dailymail.co.uk
Another story emerging is, recently retired Doctors and Nurses may be asked back to support the NHS.
My sister won't be at all happy about that......she couldn't wait to get out!
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One of the matters still in debate is precisely the one you've identified. These different viruses affect (NB Att'!) different groups in different ways and taking bog standard flu as the exemplar, the published stats vary wildly depending on immune system status, copathologies and concomitants etc etc.
As yet, we don't know what there is to be known and I'd hazard that a fair few more Old Gits need to shuffle off before we're close to understanding this one for real.
Meanwhile, food delivery companies might do quite well in the medium term.
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