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Covid 19 virus
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: Bud on March 09, 2020, 12:39:18 am ---What politics are you talking about? Are we better informed here in Canada than you guys down there that vice president Pence was assigned to lead the coronavirus response ? :-//
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Bud, I don't think that that was directed at you. I think the previous poster was expressing his own dissatisfaction at the US's lack of testing and other failures with regard to handling the early outbreaks in the US. I posted some similar days ago when I pointed out that the US had only tested 44something people whereas VietNam had tested over 1700 and South Korea had tested well over 100,000. But to be fair, I will say this was when the CDC was in charge and before Pence was appointed to take charge.
For the most part, everyone on this forum has done a good job of discussing the facts without veering off into politics. I hope we can keep it that way.
Simon:
I don't think investors are too bothered other than those involved in short term profiteering. In the long term things will come back. I heard a guy on the radio the other day saying just that. He was not bothered because his investment business works in the years and decades not the 1 week panic mode.
Leo Bodnar:
This is pretty close. Here is a good primer of what R0 is.
Remember that R0 is not a rate. It does not have time dimension in it.
Leo
--- Quote from: DrG on March 09, 2020, 12:32:37 am ---As I understand it the R0 measure is for uncontrolled growth in the population (no vaccination, immunity, isolation). The idea is NOT to have the R0 materialize.
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Leo Bodnar:
I am all for social justice but you probably do not know that most of society's pension money is invested in stock markets.
Be careful what you wish for.
Leo
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 09, 2020, 01:27:37 am ---Seriously though, it is fun to watch the greedy and amoral suffer as the share market crashes :-+.
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Simon:
Quite, not my problem as at 36 plenty of time to recover. As much as i hate the stocks and shares model it will be the source of my pension.
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