SARS Pt. 2 - Wuhan Boogaloo

[SilverEagle]

We'll be down 10% today. The shorts got what they wanted this morning. They'll wait until tomorrow or Monday to start the next leg down. If you want to stop the bleeding in the market then they need to put a temp ban on short selling. You could go further, which I don't agree with, and force shorts to close out their positions within 20 trading days. That would calm the market and it would bounce back up but I'm not big on authoritarian measures.

[TheReal_ND]

[Montegriffo]

If you think shutting down the NBA will make any real difference in the rate the disease spreads, it's because you're stupid. The juice is not worth the squeeze.

Define a "real difference"? 1%? 0.1%

Suppose shutting down sportsball (all types) slows it down by 1%, is that a "real difference"?
Maybe limiting air travel is 2%... A "real difference"?
Closing schools, 5%? A "real difference"?
...all of the above, plus maybe closing museums, Broadway shows, & more... Say 10% total, a "real difference" yet?


Eh, no point in building that seawall at Fukushima a little higher, we've never had water that high, it won't make a "real difference".

Prove the juice is worth the squeeze, or shut the fuck up. If shutting down sportsball offers such little benefit, with lots of downsides, and you still want to shut it down anyway, that's because you're a panic monkey without a functioning brain.

Look Capps, one of the reasons this pandemic won't become the Spanish flu is because governments and organisations are prepared to take these measures. If it is allowed to go unchecked then health services will get swamped and more people will die. There isn't an infinite supply of medical staff intensive care units or ventilators.
Some things are more important than your disdain for regulations and big government. As for your cage fight, nobody cares. Most people have never even heard of either of the fighters.

Sometimes the sky will fall down if no action is taken.

[TheReal_ND]

one of the reasons this pandemic won't become the Spanish flu

Nate Silver called and wants his job back

[StCapps]

As for your cage fight, nobody cares. Most people have never even heard of either of the fighters.

That's their loss. I don't give a shit about what most people think.

[pineapplemike]

we're never going to get tony/khabib are we

[TheReal_ND]

Norway shut down as well as Czechoslovakia iirc

Lithuania too

[TheReal_ND]

Oh and Ireland is shut down too.

[StCapps]

we're never going to get tony/khabib are we

it's fucking cursed, this is number one bullshit.

[Smitty-48]

Covfefe-19 panic goes full retard, as you knew it would.

The 1987 circuit breakers fire again on the Dow, but I think those just throw gasoline on the panic fire

Just imagine how a Cuban Missile Crisis type scenario would play out in this day n' age