Community Chat

[Bhvbum]

So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized during the U.S. 2019-2020 flu

I literally laughed out loud at the thoughts of conspiracies with the coronovirus outbreaks only in the "northern hemisphere."  That's actually not true, there are outbreaks in India, Austrailia, Thailand, etc.

  It is only a matter of time when cases in other countries get identified. 

[Bhvbum]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

I am more concerned with the stock market  tanking than  anything else

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Why would this a problem unless you have no choice but to sell right now?  

[suzyQ3]

I don't adhere to any wild conspiracies regarding this virus. Most of the time, a cigar is just a cigar. And it isn't as experts haven't warned about such health crises.

Try not to look at everything through a negative prism. It's not good for you. :-)

As for being worried more about the stock market, I would gladly trade my money for the lives being lost. Our investments can't compensate for that.

[patbz]

About the stock market: as my late father said during the 1987 stock market crash: "it's only a paper loss unless you sell". His words have become my mantra for investing.

[Mom2Dogs]

@patbz I agree with what you said but looking at what we have lost in the last few days was enough to make my head spin....it takes longer to make it back than it does to lose it.

I know that in time the market will level off....

[jeanlake]

Interesting. Do you think people in northern hemisphere travel more, and have more exposure than southern neighbors? Just a thought. 

[Cakers3]

From what I have been reading the person-to-person transmission through droplets from sneezing, etc. stay more airborne in colder weather so are spread more easily.  Plus people are in more crowded conditions in colder weather.

The droplets fall to the ground easier in warmer weather.

That's all I read but it makes sense?

[1Snickers]

 @Mom2Dogs   I'm glad I made the decision to move one investment from being uninsured to being insured. It took almost 15 years to build it back after the last loss. 
  My financial advisor said it needed to be done. I did it due to the Coronavirus spreading just a few weeks ago. Now I wish I had moved more! 
   I'm afraid that when the virus spreads to Africa and South America it will spread like wildfire!
  

[FancyPhillyshopper]

The virus has to first be carried by a human to arrive to different places around the globe.

One infected human can bring problems to many, many others,

( a super spreader) as for an example how British citizens became infected in a French ski resort because a man in the group had previously traveled to Singapore and caught the disease.

Doctors are still not sure if the virus can exist on hard surfaces for days and be caught that way.

Conspiracy theories of any kind are totally ridiculous.  

Diseases have existed since the beginning of time.

As the CDC stated, it is only a matter of time before it spreads.

The most important thing is if we can create an effective vaccine, since we still cannot conquer the common cold or flu.

[sunshine45]

my daughter works in a  health care facility. they are completely out of masks and gowns. the company is a large health care company. they are not even sure when more will be coming because they are all from china.

right now they are having no visitors because residents and a lot of the staff are out with an intestinal virus has been going around the past two weeks.