Oh, man, you guys are lightweights.

[The criteria for testing is] still limited to people with a travel history to a short list of countries or exposure to a known COVID19 case - plus our hospital is requiring that you get approval from an in-house infectious disease committee for any test. That is laughably restrictive at this point...

I totally f***ing give up. As colleges are closing down in a desperate effort to contain the spread of CoVid-19, students are heading out of the country in droves on "dream vacations." Ashley Henkel, 20, told NBC News that cheap flights across North America have allowed her to fulfill her ...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:12 pm You're just starting to wonder about that now?

Ha! Up to now, corruption in government has been mostly hidden, which in a strange, roundabout way is at least an acknowledgement that the rules still apply. Now, it's the "new normal."

This just fries me. Not only have researchers and journalists been put under a CDC gag order, but the White House is now classifying its top-level discussions regarding CoVID-19. Together with FASAB 56, which made it impossible to determine the whereabouts of the trillions in DOD and HUD funds that ...

I've been reading that it's the second exposure to the virus that may be the really lethal one due to a much increased ability to induce a cytokine storm. Does anyone know whether this is an autoimmune phenomenon?

I've been a philosophical adherent to the PP for nearly a decade now, having been badly burned in the 2007-08 fiasco and having learned some hard lessons about market timing. But it was not until this year that I had the opportunity to invest once again. Notwithstanding my fright last week over the ...

The canonical method is to rebalance the whole portfolio when one of the four quadrants reaches as high as 35% of the total portfolio value, or as low as 15% of the total portfolio value. So, just for the sake of clarity, if the bond quadrant has exceeded 35% but the other three quadrants are still...

I was really afraid to look at my account today, but I finally bit the bullet and peeked. Much to my surprise, I'm actually UP from where I was a few months ago. What an incredible relief, and what a strange and wonderful experience to finally feel a sense of calm in the midst of significant market ...

Thanks for asking this question. I was wondering about that also.

An interesting tidbit: Cloroquine, the old standby drug for treating malaria, is being used with success in the treatment of CoVID-19. Which has led to speculation that plain old quinine water might be of some use. https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fe47u6/chloroquine_and_hydroxychloroquine_a...

What jumps out at me is how utterly SUPERIOR this ritual must make these upper-class white women feel. But hasn't this always been the ugly underbelly of progressive wakeness?

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:43 am Is your friend ok, Maddy?

Thanks for asking, Dualstow. She's pulled through one surgery and has another scheduled for today. So far so good. She's a tough lady.

And one shining display of functionality this morning: The hospital gift shop was right on top of things!

Why, with the greatest healthcare system in the world, can the US not have testing kits readily available yet after watching this go on for weeks now in China, S Korea and Italy? I'm thinking the same thing. As fate would have it, a good friend of mine had a medical/surgical emergency this week, an...

That's hilarious! We're quite a bunch, aren't we?

I've found these three links to Reddit subforums to be especially good ones for keeping abreast of the latest developments on COVID-19. Most of the contributors appear to be health care professionals and academics. Without spending a lot of time, just perusing these three threads is enough to keep y...

Thanks, everyone, for the reassurance.

Days like this literally make me vibrate with fear. The S&P 500 is down 5.18% as I write, and the 30-year bond is up only 0.59%. Gold is flat. I know you're not supposed to look at the PP on a daily basis, and I know the inverse correlations on which the PP is predicated are based on long-term m...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:11 pm My savings are in gold and I maintain cash in t-bills for expected expenses.

Forgive me if this question has been answered in another thread, but has this always been your allocation or has your confidence in the PP been rattled?

Would the federal government step in and pay for people's medical bills if (say) Humana went under? Seems likely. Would they do the same if an HCM went under? Hard to say. I'll admit it's less likely the government would step in than with a traditional insurer, mostly because the traditional insure...

HSMs vary greatly both in terms of their scope of coverage and their financial stability, so it's hard to generalize. Several have supplemental programs that extend coverage beyond the ordinary limits. A number cover preexisting conditions after a certain number of years, or have phase-in periods. T...

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. Feminist group thinks heterosexual relationships are “violent” and should be banned. The “Federation des Femme...

So which health sharing ministry are you a member of, Maddy? If you are ok with posting that. The restrictions vary across organizations, but...didn't think that there might be special restrictions on single women. Sigh. The pink tax strikes again. I'd rather not say, WiseOne. At the moment this is...

Some of the more well known health sharing ministries feature some potentially serious limitations. . . Yes, like having to go to church and to attest to a multi-faceted statement of belief with which a large number of Christians would not necessarily agree--requirements that apparently get interpr...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:45 am Speaking of Yale
https://www.reddit.com/r/BillBurr/comme ... ents_bill/

I'm getting the sense that trade school might be a better, less painful, choice for these young people.