Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

[Arjun]

Markets are slipping bad Markets are sensitive to words, minute WHO declares this a pandemic, markets go whoa

Market Summary > Dow Jones Industrial Average
INDEXDJX: .DJI
23,762.55 −1,255.61 (5.02%)
Mar 11, 1:14 PM EDT

 

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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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23,553.22
-1,464.94 -5.86%

 

[mat200]

Some nice aerial videos of Wuhan

 

[dudemaar]

Well gas is cheapest it’s been since 1991 here in Canada

 

[Q™]

How much is that in real dollars

 

[c hris527]

Because of the hand sanitizer?

Because of our "elected reps asking for higher prison wages, hell why not just let them form a Union.

 

[Frankenscript]

With increasing lockdowns, I worry they will halt pizza deliveries. Riots in the streets i tell you!

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[Arjun]

Traffic unusually light, most schools closed. All out of the abundance of caution.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Well gas is cheapest it’s been since 1991 here in Canada
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We're down to $2.17USD/Gal here in NJ, and that's full service, they pump it for you.

 

[dudemaar]

We're down to $2.17USD/Gal here in NJ, and that's full service, they pump it for you.

Wow thats really cheap! it’s also full serve on the res. At 79.9 cents/litre, which is usually 10-15 cents cheaper than anywhere else

 

[Q™]

Markets are sensitive to words

Here are some words for the sensitive market: "STOP BEING A BUNCH OF FUQIN' PUSSIES."

 

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Or maybe "keep being a bunch of pussies so I can buy low before you numbnuts come to your sences!"

 

[bigredfish]

With increasing lockdowns, I worry they will halt pizza deliveries. Riots in the streets i tell you!

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Blasphemy! Pizza delivery and Door Dash are essential public services, critical infrastructure

 

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President Donald Trump is reluctant to declare an expansive emergency to combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak, fearful of stoking panic with such a dramatic step, according to three people familiar with the situation....The administration is “not comfortable with the optics of national emergency” because of how it might impact Wall Street, tourism and air travel, a former Department of Homeland Security official said. “That’s a big deal to Wall Street, a big deal worldwide,” the former official said. “It would instill fear in the general public.”...

Sitting here at my national control room of the United States of America, my very clear perception is that Wall Street is panicking, tourism and air travel has ground to a halt, and the general public is freaking out...you fucQin' morons.

Make toilet paper great again.

 

[mat200]

In Wuhan:

Schools have moved online. Jokes circulate: Parents complain to upstairs neighbors: "Could you please have your kids stop jumping? It is too noisy and our kids are taking an online math class now.” The neighbors reply: "Oh sorry! But my kids are taking a sports class now.”

 

[Frankenscript]

So let's get this straight. Virus breaks out in China, and reasonable precautions to limit spread from China to US are enacted, though with insufficient controls to actually make them work. Then nothing much happens for 6 weeks while pres touts great stock market performance, completely ignoring need to develop effective tests. Realizes it's going badly and puts Pence in charge as the public face, mostly for political reasons so he can hang a failure on him. Pence isn't stupid, realizes testing is critical and assembles the right corporate players to get testing up and running on the quick, and we already now (part way into the testing ramp) realize the virus not only is here, all over in most states, but probably has been for a while. Then, Pres decides to close the border with EU, ostensibly to prevent more cases coming in, but at this point it is already here and spreading faster than anything the occasional infected passenger is going to do.
The markets should be fun tomorrow, for sure.

This will go down in history as the biggest epidemic/pandemic botch in US history.

 

[mat200]

So let's get this straight. Virus breaks out in China, and reasonable precautions to limit spread from China to US are enacted, though with insufficient controls to actually make them work. Then nothing much happens for 6 weeks while pres touts great stock market performance, completely ignoring need to develop effective tests. Realizes it's going badly and puts Pence in charge as the public face, mostly for political reasons so he can hang a failure on him. Pence isn't stupid, realizes testing is critical and assembles the right corporate players to get testing up and running on the quick, and we already now (part way into the testing ramp) realize the virus not only is here, all over in most states, but probably has been for a while. Then, Pres decides to close the border with EU, ostensibly to prevent more cases coming in, but at this point it is already here and spreading faster than anything the occasional infected passenger is going to do.
The markets should be fun tomorrow, for sure.

This will go down in history as the biggest epidemic/pandemic botch in US history.

FYI -

Shortage of crucial chemicals creates new obstacle to U.S. coronavirus testing
By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper and HELEN BRANSWELL @HelenBranswellMARCH 10, 2020

In particular, one key product, made by the diagnostics testing giant Qiagen, is in dwindling supply. The chemical is used to isolate the virus’ genetic material, or RNA, so that it can be tested.

Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Politico, which first reported the story, that he is worried about the supplies labs have of the chemicals, known as reagents.

“The availability of those reagents is obviously being looked at,” Redfield said Tuesday. “I’m confident of the actual test that we have, but as people begin to operationalize the test, they realize there’s other things they need to do the test.”
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Shortage of crucial chemicals creates new obstacle to U.S. coronavirus testing

The push to increase testing in the U.S. for the novel #coronavirus has hit a new stumbling block: shortages of key chemicals needed to start up and run the tests.

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[EMPIRETECANDY]

From my experience, wear a mask when you go to busy places(Maybe someguys think only sick people can wear), and wash you hands can be good enough for anti this virus, sure better not go to busy places. Most US people have cars, so if care about these, never have problems. Italy death rate is bit high for the old people, so the old guys have to be more careful.
China this week can clear the virus i think, but there has a lot of Chinese return from Europe, they bring the virus back again. So all people have to do testing before in, and gov arrange a place for 2 weeks isolation if from Italy, Iran, France.

 

[Q™]

This will go down in history as the biggest epidemic/pandemic botch in US history.

RIGHT FUQIN' ON BRO.

But you gotta give these idiots this: just how many epidemic/pandemic botches have their been in the history of the United States? So, whilst it may be the worst, it is also the first, eh?

AND I'VE BEEN SICK FOR 3-DAYS...IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET...AND I STILL CAN'T GET TESTED

 

[Q™]

From my experience, wear a mask when you go to busy places...

OH! YEAH! RIGHT! Just because Andy survived the plague that makes him MR. COVID-THE-CONQUEROR!