Although to be completely fair, how much of that $6 trillion was actual real value, and how much simply stockmarket hype? Stockmarket valuations do not, by and large, appear to be very well grounded in reality.
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I agree that’s very much part of the problem. That fickleness can destroy economies (temporarily) is absurd.
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Don’t worry.
Quote: It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s going to disappear. It’s like a miracle.
From:
At 5:06.
I really like that understated phrasing.
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I was reading about some of that yesterday. A few things really stood out:
- The initial CDC test kits sent out were defective and had to be recalled, so a lot of places had no means to test anyone
- Those centres also weren’t allowed to use test kits developed in other countries while they waited for replacements for some obscure reason (that has now changed)
- ONLY those who had travelled to/from China COULD be tested - so individuals coming back from other locations where they might have been exposed (Japan, Korea, …) were simply NOT checked - and, in fact, were refused a test (as mentioned in the video)
The short version is: There are likely way more cases of Covid19 in the US than anyone knows, but the people who should have identified those cases have effectively been prevented from doing their work.
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I’m hoping when it warms up, The virus would be gone.
Because I’m planning to get a job in the future and it would be a shame if I caught it.
It would also be a shame if my friends and family caught it.
That would be a shame indeed. But as of now, I am not sold on the warmth will kill off the virus theory. To quote @VaultHunter101 :
For now, I’d like a little more fodder for that theory.
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Well, that’s a bit ominous…
The page I had linked from the CDC for “Cases in the US” has gone missing. You can still go to the main page here:
And the missing page is linked from all over the CDC site. Hmm… And now this:
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Yeah because if there’s one thing that viruses do poorly in, it’s tropical climates 
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Turns out it’s all rather complicated. Here’s a good summary:
So, in places that have a winter season, flu viruses tend to survive longer when it’s cold and dry. But, in countries that don’t have a winter, flu viruses tend to survive longer when it’s hot and humid.
But then the Covid-19 is a bit of a different beast all round - it’s infecting in asia under conditions warmer than those in N. America. In Canada, at least, the infections that occurred here have all been to family members of those who’d been exposed overseas (and presumably were in close proximity due to being in the same home.)
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This might interest you, there are at least a few facts about the virus included:
(And I am rather convinced you haven’t read this one yet)
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That’s not a publication on my reading list, no!
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Frankly I tend to agree it’s unlikely to be stopped at this point. People tend to underestimate the global system set up for fighting pandemics. Diseases do not generally speaking just fizzle out, it’s more that they’re halted by work on a massive scale. Anyways, if you’re interested in keeping an eye on it I’ve been leaving this map open.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Apart from that, honestly markets weren’t taking the virus into consideration properly in the first place. Flu alone knocks just under half a point off GDP from recollection, and it’s not the kind of economic problem our tools are set up to deal with. It’s an issue with lack of healthy workers, rather than monetary supply. To be fair though, VH is right, markets are really a rather distorted reflection of reality and were heavily overvalued last I checked (and presumably still are).
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I wish I had thought to do this. Oh well.
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I honestly am all too happy to keep it buried personally. But I can understand why some want to have a snapshot.
My dad’s homemade pizza is always good.
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So, we make pizza with our hands. Our hands have fingers. Fingers are digits. Does that mean that the pizza we make is digital? 
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You sound like someone who has spent all their waking hours in VR.
IN OTHER NEWS!
No plan B??!?!?!! This is Tokyo!! This should be a no-brainer!
You’re welcome world. I’ll take all that IOC funding.
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I found mine eventually:
MidnightNova’s join date was in 2012, as was @Arsonist’s. Weird that I only found mine indirectly. @Artemis_Cai - if you remember what threads/categories you were most active in, I may be able to dig yours up.
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I appreciate that, but my old brain no longer recalls that data lol!
Probably things Mordecai related knowing me.
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Here’s a link to the archive version of the Mordecai section:
Unfortunately, the individual threads weren’t indexed very deep and none of the original site scripts work (obviously). Wasn’t immediately able to find you, but it’s an interesting window to the past.
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