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163 Comments

  1. I hear you’re saying about the level of deaths associated with the flu in relation to COVID-19. But isn’t it more likely that it’s just exponential growth having an elusive quality to it where it starts with singular cases than goes to clusters and then instantly jumps up to hundreds of thousands, millions, even billions of people extremely quickly as that curve goes parabolic upwards? It’s not a linear reality, it’s an exponentially growing reality,,, So it’s always going to seem like there’s lots of headroom when there’s very little time left. Time will tell;-)

    1. That is exactly what was said in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and again now in 2020. Yes, it could go up an exponential curve. Same as the annual flu. I think the more likely explanation is people pissed off about being targeted by man made stuff, are threatening to send back other man made stuff. No trust among thieves.

      1. ‘US Army Behind Covid-19 In Wuhan’: China’s Foreign Ministry Levels Bombastic Charge
        Foreign Ministry spox Zhao Lijian: When did patient zero begin in US?…It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent!
        https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-army-behind-covid-19-wuhan-chinas-foreign-ministry-levels-bombastic-charge

        Here, former Iranian president claims it was a bio attack by one or more world powers.
        https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1237072414841937920

        Iranian, Russian, Chinese Media Push COVID-19 ‘Bioweapon’
        I’m just putting this third article here so that we can add Russia to the category of people talking about it as a ‘Bioweapon’…
        https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/iran-and-russian-media-push-bioweapon-conspiracies-amid-covid19-outbreak/163669/

          1. Markets have come down hard and fast- because corrections have not been permitted. That said there are a lot of real assets represented and companies that will endure. So I think the chances of a “dump and pump” are reasonable here. When its over, will it turn out to be a bear or a correction – two hard to say. Right now Mr. Global’s first concern is control and the war is on – so lots of collateral damage.

  4. Wow! New Orleans mayor has cancelled St. Patty day parades and other events. That is huge. St. Patty parades are just as popular as Mardi Gras. With the oil price tanking and tourism taking a hit Louisiana is up a creek without a paddle. My friend in Baton Rouge said the engineering firms in petro-chem sector are cutting work hours to 30/week. I asked him if they told them to stay home and he said “Oh, Hell No!” Haha!

    1. The Houston Rodeo has been cancelled and schools. Insanity and Costco ran out of toilet paper.

      1. Makes you wonder if the oii producers are demanding gold, yen or euros for their shipments.

  5. Wow! New Orleans mayor has cancelled St. Patty day parades and other events. That is huge. St. Patty parades are just as popular as Mardi Gras. With the oil price tanking and tourism taking a hit Louisiana is up a creek without a paddle. My friend in Baton Rouge said the engineering firms in petro-chem sector are cutting work hours to 30/week. I asked him if they told them to stay home and he said “Oh, Hell No!” Haha!

    1. The Houston Rodeo has been cancelled and schools. Insanity and Costco ran out of toilet paper.

      1. Makes you wonder if the oii producers are demanding gold, yen or euros for their shipments.

  6. The face mask issue is really interesting because it’s a necessity & an essential item in Asia, while the US media + authorities say they don’t help. Since end Jan. there has been a silent worldwide grab for masks to the point where the average person can no longer get them at the pharmacy and they are no longer being shipped out from producer countries like China, S. Korea, Taiwan. This is from conversations with friends in Finland, Australia, US, throughout Asia. There is a huge social media black market for shipments from India, Indonesia, Africa. So you see EVERYONE in China, most of all front line people like soldiers, doctors, airport workers etc., wearing surgical masks.

    Then you see the National Guard in NY and like this article where US troops are deploying to EU without being given masks. Why the disparity?

    Actually there is a massive shortage of face masks in the world due the outbreak in China. Since 1.5 months ago, production has been for the China domestic market and the essentials for dealing with the virus are not being exported. It means these things are not coming back in large supply any time soon.

    I think they absolutely do help if you are in a crowd within a city where there is an epidemic situation. Why else would health care workers etc. use them, if they didn’t work? The issue isn’t effectiveness, it’s supply.

    The ‘interesting’ part is, what other essential items – medicines, health care sanitation items – will be in short supply in the coming weeks for medical systems all over the world? Does the local hospital only have enough materials cached, enough for 2-3 weeks? How about pharmaceuticals, given that the world is so dependent on outsourced production? And how much of that 8.5 billion USD package was used to help out with these shortages? /guessing zero – it’s not as exciting as vaccine research/.

    I am guessing while people erroneously stockpile water and toilet paper /the US has plenty of both/, you will see shortages of medical items which may be a much bigger deal in preventing infection for health care workers or providing urgent care to the very ill. And once the dust settles, the pharmaceutical / medical supply chains will be one of the first to be pulled back from Asia and more regionalized.

    Stay safe Catherine, it sounds like you are in a great place!

  7. The face mask issue is really interesting because it’s a necessity & an essential item in Asia, while the US media authorities say they don’t help. Since end Jan. there has been a silent worldwide grab for masks to the point where the average person can no longer get them at the pharmacy and they are no longer being shipped out from producer countries like China, S. Korea, Taiwan. This is from conversations with friends in Finland, Australia, US, throughout Asia. There is a huge social media black market for shipments from India, Indonesia, Africa. So you see EVERYONE in China, most of all front line people like soldiers, doctors, airport workers etc., wearing surgical masks.

    Then you see the National Guard in NY and like this article where US troops are deploying to EU without being given masks. Why the disparity?

    Actually there is a massive shortage of face masks in the world due the outbreak in China. Since 1.5 months ago, production has been for the China domestic market and the essentials for dealing with the virus are not being exported. It means these things are not coming back in large supply any time soon.

    I think they absolutely do help if you are in a crowd within a city where there is an epidemic situation. Why else would health care workers etc. use them, if they didn’t work? The issue isn’t effectiveness, it’s supply.

    The ‘interesting’ part is, what other essential items – medicines, health care sanitation items – will be in short supply in the coming weeks for medical systems all over the world? Does the local hospital only have enough materials cached, enough for 2-3 weeks? How about pharmaceuticals, given that the world is so dependent on outsourced production? And how much of that 8.5 billion USD package was used to help out with these shortages? /guessing zero – it’s not as exciting as vaccine research/.

    I am guessing while people erroneously stockpile water and toilet paper /the US has plenty of both/, you will see shortages of medical items which may be a much bigger deal in preventing infection for health care workers or providing urgent care to the very ill. And once the dust settles, the pharmaceutical / medical supply chains will be one of the first to be pulled back from Asia and more regionalized.

    Stay safe Catherine, it sounds like you are in a great place!

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