Posted on 03/12/2020 10:32:15 AM PDT by Mariner
LT is out today.
Yesterday's thread is here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823556/posts?page=1
Try the walmart pickup.
You only have to interact with the one or two people who deliver it to your vehicle, not the whole store full of people.
For the rest of the stuff...
I guess we’ll have to see what Trump says this afternoon. We ordered most of that except the tires.
added to my list. NAPA has them - good quality and price. Better than other chain stores
https://www.burpee.com/search?q=garlic
Might call and ask when it ships. Looks like it’s shipping right now?
(I’ve had good luck with burpee garlic but they’re not the only ones, just first I found right now that *might* be shipping right now)
Grocery store garlic works too. The elephant garlic we found was from California.
The secret MA was trying to hide was that they are playing big time triage with their limited testing capacity (probably lab chemicals).
That is humiliating for a state with several high end medical schools and facilities—their lack of preparation for an epidemic is stunning—and they were trying to hide it.
That high a “hit” rate means they are only testing very high likelihood cases....
I really don't know. It might be different depending on how bad the infection is in a given area. I would just be ready to go nowhere for a couple of months.
Albany GA had two cases about 3 days ago. They are the southwest county to the left of the one that looks like a mitten. Mitten is Worth County, Albany is in Dougherty County. Wonder why those cases aren’t showing?
I don't know. They want the virus to spread (for citizens to get immunity hopefully) but they don't want it to spread out of control cause that would overwhelm the medical system. So maybe just schools, churches and large public gatherings?
lol...my wife was kind of the same way. I started a couple of months ago and wife was kind of like "Ok really?". And then earlier this week I told her the prez was going to address the nation and that was going to start the panic...and she's like...well let's go to Sam's before it starts and get some more food!
“Study the history on bear markets and how long they last. That will tell you what you want to know.”
I hear you, but my point is that this is OUTSIDE of the any box, and that is why so many people here were caught flat-footed despite the obvious warnings coming out of China.
There’s still a feeling that ‘this will pass’ and everything will be ‘normal’ again - 2 months at the most, but probably 2 or 3 weeks. It won’t happen that way. But again, that’s thinking outside of the box, and applying what I see around the world, not what Dow charts tell me about the past, considering that they’ve never priced-in a pandemic on this scale. And what I see around the world is China, very, very, slowly coming back to life, and scared Shiiteless that they may re-trigger the virus and have to quickly go back to lockdown - again for many weeks at a time.
We’re just catching up to where the market should have been a week after the Wuhan lockdown...and it will be a while before the market catches up to the incredibly slow recovery going on in China. But the writing is all there...if people put down their charts and look across the Pacific.
You can't harvest what didn't get planted. The wet, rainy season last year prevented planting. What little did get planted was barely ready for harvest.
The potato fields have been plowed in Idaho. I see new sprinkler lines in place.
Update from the Great Northwest (aka Minnesota).
The Minnesota Department of Health has now confirmed fourteen (1) cases of COVID-19. That’s up 5 cases from a day or two ago.
Here’s the link:
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html
It’s short and to the point. For those of you geographically inclined, there’s a map. The majority of the cases are still in the Twin Cities metro area.
The reason history matters is that human nature has not changed—and markets are driven by the emotions of human beings....so imho you are over-analyzing—a bear market has to run its course,,,and history gives us a good feel for what that looks like...
The whole concept of a bear market is that it over-compensates on the negative side.
Interesting to look at maps for this thing and see that it is pretty much a Northern Hemisphere event. Will we see this flip around as parts of the Southern Hemisphere head to their winter months. Even here in Texas, there are as of now not a single reported case south of San Antonio. Not one case through the entire Valley.
Nat’l Emergency....amid outbreak - per NBC news.
I think it will spread wherever there’s AC.
It might also depend on the levels of circulating vitamin D3.
We’ll see.
WE are getting sunshine when we can, just because.
I am a novice in terms of understanding financial markets, but I understand
balance sheets fairly well.
One thing that concerns me is the number of US corporations that might be at risk of asset seizure by China. I would like to know a great deal more about supply chains into this country. How much inventory, physical plant and equipment do public companies traded on Wall Street carry on their books that is physically located in China?
I can remember these questions being asked many years ago right here on FR. But the national security arguments lost to free traders.
As for what will happen in the long run, what will happen is asset reallocation. There will be winners and losers when that occurs.
Unless the chicoms nationalize US facilities there, our stocks are fine long term.
Panic is selling out your entire position at this point if you won’t need it for 10 yrs or longer.
Just IMHO.
“You can all take your 96 rolls of Toilet Paper and shove them up your ass.” 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/YysQDweOwj— CHIZ 🇺🇸 (@CHIZMAGA) March 13, 2020
Agreed—young people should ride it out...
Folks over 55 need to start lowering their risk profile imho.
(I have very little in the market at this point—so I am just observing from the sidelines...)
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