We started wearing masks when getting supplies about ten days ago. Wife went out this evening to make a grocery run and reported that for the first time nobody looked at her like she was crazy.

Why the hesitation to wear a mask?

I don't think this link has been posted yet: https://inside.mountsinai.org/blog/mount-sinai-to-begin-the-transfer-of-covid-19-antibodies-into-critically-ill-patients/ The first paragraph reads: The Mount Sinai Health System this week plans to initiate a procedure known as plasmapheresis, where the a...

I'd like some predictions on when the quarantine will be lifted and people can go back to work and the gym, etc. IL, for instance, is on lockdown until 4/7, but that could be relaxed or extended. I'll go with Tuesday, June 2. And that even feels optimistic to me. What are you thinking, pug? I'm not...

Islamic housewives? Or clothes from surgery? Casual Friday No escape from COVID-19 Open up wide, Keep up social distancing, I'm just a young boy, I need no sympathy, I'll spread it if I cough, if I blow, out my nose, sans elbow, Any way this thing goes, doesn't really matter to me, to me. Excellent...

A few thoughts... I think people are correct to question the numbers coming out of China regarding new CV cases and deaths, but it seems clear that the trends there are at least positive. Factories are up and running and many people are back at work. Cars are back on the street. Health workers appea...

Indiana schools now officially online only through May 1. But the real tragedy is that the chances of holding the Indy 500 (world's largest single-day sporting event) on May 24 are getting slimmer and slimmer. Realistically they are probably zero, but nothing official yet. Without looking it up, I ...

Are you in Vancouver proper or somewhere else in the Lower Mainland? I used to work out that way a lot. And no home workouts now that the gym is closed? I'm about a 30 minute drive outside of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley area! Are you in the area too? And yeah, I've put together a home workout pl...

Look at what the Coronavirus has done to your resident Canadian. With no work or classes to actually attend I ended up staying up till 5am watching Breaking Bad. EDIT: Aside from traditional risks in the market, which we're seeing now, counter-party risk is now very real as fund providers, business...

Yup, I'm sticking with the PP philosophy. I feel pretty good with the amount I have in the PP right now. I'd been shifting some money from stocks to cash in my formerly stock-only VP; I'll be shifting that back into stocks. FWIW I just sold some Treasury MM and bought some stocks in our smaller IRA...

Still haven’t pulled the trigger on the above. Thinking of doing so before EOD but still a bit apprehensive. Anyone else rebalancing into stocks? Do you think the stock market is near the bottom? I don't see how it doesn't continue to slide for at least the next couple of months. Thinking about doi...

Is it just me or did the call for an airline bailout happen awfully quickly? It feels like they really want to be at the front of the line. And any thoughts about cruise lines being bailed out? I heard mention of that yesterday in Trump's new conference. For the life of me I can't grasp how that ind...

Still holding off on rebalancing. I decided I wanted to see my rebalance indicator be "yes" two days in a row, because it's going to take a bit of time for me to gather all the data from the various accounts and determine how best to rebalance. I don't imagine for a minute that I'll be able to gues...