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I thought that someone ought to mention that the United States now has had over 100,000 deaths from the COVID-19 virus. We have a thread on the virus, but no one is marking this milestone, so I guess I will.
I understand that there are many points of view on this whole situation, and frankly I don't want to get too far into all of it. But 100,000 people is a pretty large number, and someone should notice it on a thread devoted to the subject.
The US now has over a million cases, and leads the world in the effect of the virus, leading in both total cases and total deaths. Since March. That's three months.
So, maybe this is really a big deal.
I do understand that there are many parts of the country that have not been seriously affected by the virus (I live in one, although there are parts of my state, the high-density areas such as Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach, that are high infection and high death areas.) I am very afraid that the regions that so far have been lightly affected will soon find that the virus has come to their door. This is starting in a lot of areas, and I am not happy with it.
I also understand that every single issue in modern life has become a political issue. I am sure that at some point, whether the sun rises in the East will be something that people believe or disbelieve based on their politics. God knows why this has happened, but it has.
So, whether this is well-received or not, I do want to pause and notice that 100,000 Americans are dead now from this virus, and this is more than all the US soldiers who died in every war beginning with Viet Nam and up to the present. That's a hell of a lot of people, folks.
No matter what you think about the subject, and no matter what your politics are, it's a lot. There will be more, and politics just won't matter.
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Now, since I have attempted to keep an objective, calm tone in this post, I shouldn't say that it is dismaying to see videos of about a million doofuses rushing out over Memorial Day trying to see whether they could get infected, but it is. A certain percentage of these people will be in ICU's in a few weeks, and after that some will be dead. So will some of their acquaintances and family members who get it from them. So will innocent people they give it to just in passing.
Will it take another three months to get to 200,000? We can't tell now, of course. But the history of this has been to exceed expectations.
anyway things I will do after all this story ends.
1) Will not enter any place managed by a chinese(like bars or resturants)
2) will not import any product from China.
3) will not vote for the current government
4) will not travel to countries who closed or still closing borders with Italy
5) will never doubt that market can recover and build a better long position next time something similar happens.
6) I have a bad feeling about the future so I need a plan B.
I regards to sweden there was some stats analyzed last week in regards to deaths related to the same investigation of highest death rate. It seems that on 5 occasions between 2000-2019 the death rate related to population size have been "higher" or similar from flue. Now there was a point made that at those occasions there was no social distancing implemented. But this shows that normal flue can be much worse then we might think or We never had the info made public before.
Swedish GDP increased 0.1% first quarter so economically up to date it was the right way to go.
Sweden is an interesting case, because their much less restricted response to the Coronavirus was very different from the rest of Europe, and from the other Scandinavian countries. Like many people, I have been aware in a distant way of their policy, although not entirely clear about its basis, since I have been more concerned with the situation where I live.
It appears there is some reconsideration going on now in Sweden itself, although I am not sure what their next steps will be.
I came across this brief story in the Washington Post today, which I am quoting in its entirely here.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/03/coronavirus-live-updates-us/ Unfortunately, you'll have to scroll way down or use Ctl+F Search to get to this story. This link is to the beginning of a large collection of related stories, and the Sweden link they provide in the initial summary section takes you to a different page on world-wide cases, apparently by mistake.
I'll just say that the virus pandemic has been one more thing to divide people into opposing camps, and unfortunately there can be consequences to the choice of which camp we are in. This division is one more thing that I hope we can outgrow, and I certainly wish the best for the people of Sweden, and for all of us.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
Hi,
here in the UK people with life threatening illnesses very often haven't been getting the treatment they need and their deaths are being put into the covid 19 death statistics. We are told by the media the hospitals are overflowing and struggling to cope but we have been told by people who have been inside that they are quite empty. We have drove past the hospital near to us many times and we see lots of staff just sitting around with nothing to do and they don't look like they have been working hard.
It's all just another excuse to get us more under control and clamp down further on our freedoms. More people seem to be waking up to this now though, which is good.
Hard to say if this is simply hilarious or a cause for despair for all humankind. I sort of felt both.
I guess I'll just take it as a case of human foibles and move along.... I have made equally dumb moves in trading, but it wasn't caught on tape, thankfully.
I would like to be kind, but it's so hard not to laugh.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote