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[Ohio]

Haven't been following this too closely, but I'm going on a week long cruise to the Caribbean in about a month. Should I be concerned?

 

[Chris]

Haven't been following this too closely, but I'm going on a week long cruise to the Caribbean in about a month. Should I be concerned?

Probably not but I dunno. I’m going on a Hawaiian cruise in July. Already paid for it so I’m fucking going.

 

[The Oi]

Haven't been following this too closely, but I'm going on a week long cruise to the Caribbean in about a month. Should I be concerned?

You should be concerned about what kinds of activities you’ll be doing on the cruise if it isnt cancelled. Hopefully you’ll get diarrhea. Great way to lose weight if that’s on your agenda.

 

[MattyFos.]

stock market had worst week since 2008. S&P 500 fell 18%.

That's what I meant. I think that's more to do with supply chain than people panicking. Like people arent hoarding and quarantining themselves where I'm at. The stock market is 100% a reaction to Chinese supply chain. Imo

 

[MattyFos.]

Haven't been following this too closely, but I'm going on a week long cruise to the Caribbean in about a month. Should I be concerned?

Um probably not right now. But if they give you the chance to cancel the trip and get your money back I'd probably take the opp

 

[KI4MVP]

That's what I meant. I think that's more to do with supply chain than people panicking. Like people arent hoarding and quarantining themselves where I'm at. The stock market is 100% a reaction to Chinese supply chain. Imo

stock market is way overreacting based on what‘s happened so far.

 

[MattyFos.]

stock market is way overreacting based on what‘s happened so far.

Very much agree

 

[NorthCoastBias]

 

[MattyFos.]

Not one country has proven the ability to contain it. NYC is boutsta be lit

 

[Cavsfan1985]

Not one country has proven the ability to contain it. NYC is boutsta be lit

Not sure it can be. It’s the the flu or a cold. From what I have read, it shoulds like the symptoms are just like a cold so can see why people would not think anything about it.

 

[daddywags]

stock market is way overreacting based on what‘s happened so far.

So far pretty much everybody is overreacting, which has led to interruptions in many businesses around the world, which naturally leads to a market selloff. I think the market has reacted reasonably to unreasonable (so far) fear. As just one small aspect, I think it's terrible that people are hording face masks they will never need or use which very well could cause those who need them to have to go without.

 

[KI4MVP]

So far pretty much everybody is overreacting, which has led to interruptions in many businesses around the world, which naturally leads to a market selloff. I think the market has reacted reasonably to unreasonable (so far) fear. As just one small aspect, I think it's terrible that people are hording face masks they will never need or use which very well could cause those who need them to have to go without.

Any business interruptions are localized and short term.

market drops 5% on a one day report of a few hundred to 1000 or so new cases on a planet with almost 8 billion people. Also a planet where 300-600k people die each year from the flu, 1.25 million people die from car accidents, 10 million people die from cancer, and almost 20 million people die from cardiovascular disease.

The global number of cases keep going up because the news reports cumulative total cases when the number of active cases is actually declining as people recover. Feb 17 there were almost 59k active cases in the world, the number is about 41k as of yesterday.

China shut down for a week for chinese new year, extended that a bit, have mostly reopened their production. They've had 2600 deaths in a country with 1.4 billion people.

Tesla, the company I follow who has production in china, has been back in production a few weeks, broke ground on construction on a 2nd factory in shanghai this week. They've also rented every delivery truck available to home deliver vehicles to customers in china.

Yes, we need to be diligent to keep the virus from getting out of hand. But the world didn't lose 18% of the economy because 4k or so people got sick in a week.

Also, the selloff hit companies that make no sense at all. For example, Amazon is down. If people are afraid to go out in public they are going to shop more online.

 

[SanduskyCav]

Any suggestions for travel? My family is going on vacation at the end of the month. Flying Columbus to Tampa. Some family members suggest wearing a mask...I want to say fuck that and take my chances.

 

[Zeus69]

Any suggestions for travel? My family is going on vacation at the end of the month. Flying Columbus to Tampa. Some family members suggest wearing a mask...I want to say fuck that and take my chances.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/2-coronavirus-cases-presumptive-positive-in-the-tampa-bay-area/67-793f2e15-f24f-4e35-af5c-02857cea4a83?fbclid=IwAR27a3IE4QBTJ-OLoba9n5SgCmkGDVSb-PF8_UaHo0Zj0FvRnBTKmwnU8E8

Unless fit for an N95 mask, the standard surgical masks you pick up at Walgreens won't protect you.
ETA: if you or a family member is feeling "ill" wearing a standard surgical mask will help protect others from getting your cooties

 

[The Oi]

i will not rest until i have confirmation that this entire board is not taking any precautions against this ridiculous non-issue virus.