MacGyver

The overall mortality with H1N1 was a lot lower than what we're seeing here - from April 2009 to April 2010 - H1N1 killed 12,469 people - with an overall mortality rate of 0.02%

Nashville schools closed through April 3. Governor Lee asking all districts to close through the 31st.

Heck, I had to look some of them up.

That’s because precious metals that aren’t a part of a larger, well balanced portfolio has always been a kind of dumb investment. Its not to say there’s not a place for them - but they’re not going to perform as some sort of panacea when everything else heads south.

Too late.

My friend’s Dad is doing quite poorly. Her mom hasn't’ gotten testing results back yet - but expects a positive test. They’re people of deep faith - prayers are greatly appreciated regardless of the outcome.

I don’t know what the reverse of a tidal wave is - but that’s what we’re seeing in data coming out of China right now. And they’re not done yet. I was surprised yet to see the Fed move that aggressively - but we’ve not seen data like this before. They’re trying to keep the credit markets open. Because we learned in ‘08 that credit markets are open - until they’re not. And that’s a giant problem for businesses that are leveraged as they are here in the US.

It’s just not what we want to lead with in the forum. I don’t really care how people put themselves out there in their personal lives - we would rather just not make your supposed ethnicity their main identifier here. i suspected this was leading from the get go. His IP didn’t match his supposed location. So, I asked him to pick another username - he sent me some blistering PM’s in return. I don’t have the time this week for any of that.

The party never ends...

No.

Sorry. I’m not going to debate semantics with a guy with one post.

Welcome to TGO. Please pick a different username.

Please pick a different username.

My boss is jerk. But, my business is just as good from my house as it is from my office. My clients who are typically small businesses are terrified, though.

New York City schools closed through April 20. May not reopen this year.

Yeah, that means the Fed’s magazines are pretty well empty at this point.

It may be a garden hose on a house fire, but the Federal Reserve just cut rates to zero and announced a $700m quantitative easing package: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/fed-unveils-emergency-action-effort-to-support-economy-from-coronavirus-130608

Illinois Governor Pritzker is ordering all bars and restaurants closed until March 30th.

You bet. This is bad advice. States need to be delaying primaries.

The only options left are the extreme ones - self enforced social isolation would be best - but we’ll likely see more states do like Ohio and just close everything this week.

I’m surprised he let them use his name.

I think this is what had my hackles up, Dave: Sorry for the Twitter link - I couldn’t find one on YouTube. Mind you, I understand the underlying sentiment - this is going to be really hard on small business owners. But, this is bad advice - and is contrary to what public health advocates are asking.

Prayers for y’all. Summertown isn’t that far. If y’all need something, give me a shout.

Lower Broadway is being closed immediately: All bars and restaurants in Ohio are being closed.

I don’t consume a lot of traditional media. I can’t remember the last time a TV was on in my house tuned to anything of the sort. But I’ve got friends with terminal degrees in public health and pandemic response who are really worried right now. These are folks who were on the ground in Africa during the Ebola crisis and who worked SARS and H1N1. I’d trust them with my life - and these are folks who are used to parsing everything through the lens of risk. There are a lot of folks on here who are more politically conservative than me. That’s great. I love debating big ideas. But, your media is purposefully misleading you right now. For whatever the reason. You need to take this seriously - if for no other reason than the country is going to get more liberal if you die. And, it’s worth noting that here in Tennessee alone - we’ve lost so much capacity in terms of rural hospitals. Where are you going to go when you need treatment? Even in my 40-49 age bracket - this has 20x the mortality rate of a bad flu year. Take it seriously y’all.