Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Between yesterday and today's examples of high ranking administration officials being publicly clueless and this story, you should be scared to death. This is exactly the wrong administration to have in charge during a pandemic. Trump is ready to give coronavirus the global warming treatment - deny it exists and forbid the mention of the problem. I'm not in full hair on fire prepper mode - but I *am* going to be buying up canned and dried food, gloves, and storing water. Stuff that can be used over time. I'm not buying cases of MREs, but beans and rice are cheap and store well.

 

There's no proof that the Internet infrastructure can handle the massively increased daytime load that's coming its way.

 

You can bet that telecommuting is about to explode, at least to the degree that the infrastructure can handle.

 

On the plus side, investing in Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services seems like a decent idea.

 

I'm not so sure of that. I'm seriously considering going liquid for a while. The market dropped a thousand points over statistics on the spread. What happens when China's factories and ports start to shut down temporarily in order not to concentrate people, to fight the spread of disease? Or when they start to shut down because of a lack of healthy workers? This might be a very good time to consider going money market before your 401k starts falling like stockbrokers in 1929. I don't think you'd get hurt by missing a market spike upwards, put it that way.

That said, I can think of a couple of folks that I hope embrace Trump's skill at the market and double down.

 

Given the outbreaks are concentrated in authoritarian regimes, what if the numbers are much, much larger?

 

Where is the leadership, information, guidance, and preparation intended to keep the American people safe?

 

Singapore has this under control and it's right in the eye of the storm.

Granted, it is led by a guy who learned an Arabic script by age 5 and not a subliterate moron who uses incontinence products.

 

Should be some good deals on cruises in the future.