Gyroscopic Investing

stuper1 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:11 am

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:43 amBut I'm sure that the government has information I don't have, so what they are doing may make sense.

This was the sentence that was jarring to me. I never thought I'd hear something like that from your keyboard.

Just makes me more sure that we are living in a very strange time.

Due to the coronavirus crisis, Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:10 pm I recommend Glocks

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:25 am

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:27 am My gut feel is that this shouldn't be as devastating as it is becoming.

I think that if we don't find a treatment that can keep people out of the hospital, the best solution is to keep all the especially vulnerable people at home until the pandemic runs its course to the point where most people have had it and are no longer going to transmit it to them.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:40 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:10 pm I recommend Glocks

If you ever had to renew your forum account, you could have the handle Glockenspiel.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:52 pm Just received this from a friend: "5 cases of Covid 19 at Franklin Baystate. 2 confirmed." It's hit my county. That hospital is about a mile from my office and right next door to where we play basketball (quite convenient when I've had to go to the emergency room as a result of basketball injuries).

We've probably been infected in our county for a while. But impossible to prior tell without being able to test for it.

Vinny

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:56 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:52 pm Just received this from a friend: "5 cases of Covid 19 at Franklin Baystate. 2 confirmed." It's hit my county. That hospital is about a mile from my office and right next door to where we play basketball (quite convenient when I've had to go to the emergency room as a result of basketball injuries).

We've probably been infected in our county for a while. But impossible to prior tell without being able to test for it.

Vinny

I know I've said this already, but DO NOT TAKE ANY RISKS THAT MIGHT LAND YOU IN THE HOSPITAL!!!!!

Meanwhile, several articles have decried the problematic ways in which Chinese eating and hygiene habits have been discussed in light of the outbreak, especially because they may lead to stereotyping Chinese people as a whole for being barbaric and uncivilized. These stereotypes, they fear, will only end up fueling xenophobia and racism.

The temptation here is to avoid falling into the trap of cultural relativism. It’s perfectly appropriate to criticize China’s rampant consumption of exotic animals, lack of hygiene standards and otherwise risky behavior that puts people at risk for zoonotic infections. Until these entrenched behaviors based on cultural or magical beliefs are divorced from Chinese culture, wet wildlife markets will linger as time-bombs ready to set off the next pandemic, which in a globalized age is proving only too easy to do. We already know that more than 75 percent of emerging diseases originate in animals and that in the last century, at least 10 infectious diseases jumped from animals to people. China should be aghast at its role setting off the global domino effect at Wuhan Seafood Market in late 2019.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:04 pm 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, businesses, and intermediaries may now be in danger of going kaput.

EDIT 2: Vancouver has now officially declared a state of emergency. Our employer is paying us for the next two weeks, but my coworkers and I are now wondering about after that.

barrett wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:25 pm
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?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:04 pm 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, businesses, and intermediaries may now be in danger of going kaput.

EDIT 2: Vancouver has now officially declared a state of emergency. Our employer is paying us for the next two weeks, but my coworkers and I are now wondering about after that.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:42 pm Not to be too contrarian, but there are things more important than focus on self, especially now. Please do not make your body into an idol. My very best wishes for you.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:45 pm I was wondering where you were, Mountaineer.
I almost wrote to you to warn you, the thread with the title "Know One Another" is not to be interpreted in the Biblical sense.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:04 pm 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.