With all the casinos around me closing down due to coronavirus, I have decided to use the spare time to expand my knowledge of variation plays beyond Illustrious 18.
How will you guys spend your freed up time if your local casinos have closed down?
With all the casinos around me closing down due to coronavirus, I have decided to use the spare time to expand my knowledge of variation plays beyond Illustrious 18.
How will you guys spend your freed up time if your local casinos have closed down?
Been grocery shopping daily for years. I like fresh food. Lately it's two or three times a day. The toilet paper section of the market says limit four rolls per customer. Only, there are no rolls. Fortunately, I bought a bunch of TP in January.Originally Posted by BoSox
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
My daughter was visiting and flew home yesterday. She was originally staying longer, but felt she should get home before flights are grounded. Her flight (cross country) was $70 and she got a first class upgrade for another $60. This was on a "real" airline and not a POS like Spirit or Allegiant.
I am constantly having Italy being thrown at me as evidence the virus is going to wipe out humanity. So I decided to look into Italy, specifically. What I found is that Italy has about 16K flu related deaths each year. That’s a little over 2K flu related each month of the 7 month flu season. The new cases are in decline and the total death count in the 2 months since the outbreak began there, is at 2158, so about 1K per month (half that of the flu during the same period). And Italy is the worst case scenario in terms of mortality rate (fatality to recorded infections - yes this is a less than ideal statistic in terms of meaningfulness). Germany, for instance has an incredibly low mortality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54030.htm
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There is no covid 19 shots yet available like there is for the flu, and yes, I get a flu shot every year.
This is a geometric progression very similar to the bubonic plague of a few hundred years ago, though perhaps not as deadly, or the Spanish flu of 1918,19. Let me put this into simple terms.
Take a chessboard. Put 1 cent in the first square. Double it to 2 cents in the second square, and double it again to 4 cents in the 3rd square. Keep the progression and let me know what square you’re on until I’ve wiped out your net worth. Keep the progression going until you’ve reached a sum which equals your state’s deficit levels. Once youve done that, keep the progression going. The 64th square will be a mind numbing value. This is similar to how this virus will progress without intervention. Even though the death values are “not yet’ that high, without strict adherence to procedures designed to slow and stop the infection rate, death rates will spiral.
Beating the curve will drop the infection rate, human nature will relax and infection rates will again increase, though not to its previous levels, the cycle will repeat, and then repeat again and so forth. I think it took about a 12 or 18 months to beat Spanish flu.
Effects on business and employment levels will also be astronomical. Like it or not, Government financial intervention will need to be massive to both prop the economy and include provisions for support to those without fallback resources. Without doubt, increase to Government deficits will wipe out any prior efforts of fiscal control. Repairs to that situation will have to occur after the fact.
Many of us, including myself, have suffered huge financial losses. The effect on each of us will vary depending on our actual market mix, but eventually, the market will bounce back.
Despite the horrific nature of all that is going on, we all need to take ownership of our particular situations and each do our parts to help contain this. Penalties for hoarders and those not taking proper sanitary precautions should be heavy. Rumour has it the North Koreans shot some guy in the head for leaving isolation. True or not true, that might be extreme - though depending on how this plays out, penalties for non compliance in our part of the world may progress to extreme measures.
This is no paltry manner, and should be thought of and challenged in the strongest possible manner.
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