Jenny Cruiser
Hard Core 4+
We are closing on Monday and our rate was locked in at just over 3%. Thank you Corona virus! Can't wait to see what else Monday brings after watching today's bloodletting.
I deleted my post after I too researched it a bit. Thanks for copying itThis is not correct. There are multiple confirmed cases all throughout Florida of the Coronavirus.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cor...hUKEwjS54jpypboAhUSV80KHeOeCaQQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ
The Michael Osterholm podcast posted above specifically discusses heat and the ability of the coronavirus to survive it. In fact a variation of a Coronavirus in the Middle East known as MERS survives temperatures in excess of 110 degrees.
The stock market dumping 27% of its value this month and the plummeting price of oil are really hurting. We're down to one income now. She's at least with the city government so a layoff for her will probably lag the burst bubble. The hysterical response and fear mongering over what's basically a virulent cold virus is curiously disproportionate. What you're saying is of course correct, the merry-go-round has had to fail for decades now. I guess you never can anticipate the black swan and especially the one that may cause the death rattle of the system, ironically.I would contend that it is debt and not the Coronavirus that is the primary reason for the situation we find ourselves in. The zero interest rate policies of central banks over the past decade have only served to undermine and erode sound fiscal policy. The United States and other developed Nations have punished savers and celebrated debt. In a chase for yield, investors were forced to either take on ever increasing risk or select margin to amplify constantly decreasing returns. This has served to inflate some of the largest and most unsafe bubbles in human history. The coronavirus is simply a pin for the bubble we presently find ourselves in. If it hadn't been the Coronavirus, another pin would have found this bubble soon enough.
Denver Public Schools just extended spring break to 3 1/2 weeks beginning Monday
I'll have to defer to your expertise, I'm just parroting what the CDC says. It sounds to my untrained ears that it's a serious risk to those comorbid but generally it's not a death sentence. It would seem that, yes, if you end up in the hospital it's likely because you have serious symptoms like pneumonia. I'd expect statistically that 100% of people in a hospital would be there for some reason. So how is a SARS-CoV-2 illness any more or less worrisome than flu if you are NOT already at risk for complications from a respiratory illness?No, right now in China and Italy only people in the hospitals are exhibiting serious symptoms and everyone else is isolating at home. Information does not freely flow out of China, but now that Italy is going through a similar situation it's becoming more clear. In some Italian hospitals over 80% of the patients have pneumonia.
I have become convinced that so-called social distancing is the most effective way to slow the spread of the disease, reduce the total infection rate and prevent our health care system from becoming overwhelmed.
Well, I started this thread and my oh my how things can change in just a few days. My point was mainly about how seasonal flu isn't news, yet kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. I guess my main point is how the media are whipping people into a frenzy. One thing that I have learned since I started this thread, is the much higher mortality rate of this particular virus compared to the seasonal flu. It's somewhere around several times higher, to an order of magnitude higher. Hard numbers are pretty much impossible to come by, but yeah, it's a higher mortality rate than the seasonal flu and comparably contagious. Over the course of the stuff I've read over the past week, I have become convinced that so-called social distancing is the most effective way to slow the spread of the disease, reduce the total infection rate and prevent our health care system from becoming overwhelmed.
We'll cushion the hospitals but destroy the economy and the hoarding will starve half the population in the process. SARS-CoV-2, better known as Charlie Foxtrot 2020.Pretty wild, huh? With regard to the possibility of preventing our health care system from being pushed to the brink and then way beyond that.