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Cincydawg

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #714 on: March 10, 2020, 08:51:46 PM »
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #715 on: March 10, 2020, 09:24:50 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 10, 2020, 07:20:16 PM
The "common" flu is far worse. I wonder what the crisis of the month will be in June.
Read that 34,000 died from it last year.The media loves sensationalism as Bwarb said the hysteria is overblown.IMO he's right......hopefully
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #716 on: March 10, 2020, 09:33:52 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on March 10, 2020, 09:24:50 PM
Read that 34,000 died from it last year.The media loves sensationalism as Bwarb said the hysteria is overblown.IMO he's right......hopefully
I'm sure to a degree the hysteria is overblown, but I'm also interested in why some places have gone so hard after it (quarantining and such). Cable TV can't be freaking out China and Italy all at once.

Anyway, I'm not the most opposed to better safe than sorry. And if it is mostly a media sensationalism thing, someone educated has to actually say something (perhaps they are, I dunno).

I guess I come down on the idea that things are not as bad as they sound because they never are. But by the same token, I sometimes worry about that kind of wide-base skepticism because sometimes being wired to imagine we're not the suckers gets folks in trouble. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #717 on: March 10, 2020, 09:40:06 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on March 10, 2020, 09:33:52 PM
I'm sure to a degree the hysteria is overblown, but I'm also interested in why some places have gone so hard after it (quarantining and such). Cable TV can't be freaking out China and Italy all at once.
That's a great point just curious how they immediately know it's certainly Corona,when possibly it could be the common - or not
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #718 on: March 10, 2020, 09:46:50 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 10, 2020, 11:39:27 AM
The bounce was rather short lived, but of course it could come back.  DJIA down 150.
Why is it i don't get the small numbers & symbols in the Business Sections but I clearly understand them in the Daily Racing Form :017:
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #719 on: March 10, 2020, 09:55:29 PM »
On a happier note, sort of,  I was driving through my neighborhood today and noticed a flag I dont recall being flown in my neighborhood before.  It was a half and half flag.  One half Gators, the other half the big ole M.

I was so tempted to bang on the door and ask for Gatorama.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #720 on: March 11, 2020, 05:34:35 AM »
COVID is "different" and less well understood, hence the caution.  The same happened with H1N1 in 2018 (I think) and MERS and SARS.  Is it being overplayed?  That certainly is possible, maybe in two years "we" largely forgot this ever happened and are on to something else new and different.  It IS having a rather dramatic economic impact from what I can discern.  I don't recall this being so severe in previous outbreaks.

The wife and I are not doing anything different at all (yet).  We are scheduled to fly to Turkey April 6, we'll see how that goes.  I prepaid for the hotel for 8 days.  Our friend who is meeting us there has cut his European trip short, he's coming back here Monday (he hopes).  He was to be in Europe for two months.  He's in Egypt at the moment.

Obviously travel companies have been demolished, even ones like Crackerbarrel, which one would thing is a relatively safe boring stock (I did).

Stock market futures are down this morning early fairly hard.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #721 on: March 11, 2020, 07:59:24 AM »
I'd be hesitant to take any trip beyond our nation's borders right now.  Not because of fear of infection, although that's a concern as well, but mostly because I'd have little confidence in being able to return at my leisure and according to my plans.  

For example, the VP of my division got stuck in Italy for about 4 days beyond his intended travel, almost 2 weeks ago.  Things have only gotten worse there since then, he likely wouldn't make it out at all, if he tried now.  And they're headed that way in many other European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries.  Turkey specifically,  "just" announced its first case, and given the extent of reported cases in almost every nation around them, many in the global community suspect them of lying, and that things have already progressed much further there, than they are letting on.

I'd caution you to take GREAT care CD, I'd hate to get stuck in a foreign country as routes home were getting cut off.  Just my opinion, obviously we all need to make our own decisions on this.  

Of course, by April 6th, things might have played out one way or the other, in both Turkey and in the USA, so the decision could very well be easier then, than it would be now.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #722 on: March 11, 2020, 08:17:21 AM »
Yeah, I got a great deal on probably the top hotel in Istanbul for 8 nights so I prepaid, but I might get that back.  Airline is already paid as well.

Our other Turkish friend here who manages a restaurant we like spend about 5 minutes giving us "warnings" about how to handle being in Istanbul, including "Don't eat any rice or potatoes", aside from the usual about taking care of one's money and credit cards.  He said not to use the later unless in a large chain type place.  He's been here 29 years and doesn't go back very often but his sister does.

If our friend cancels, we probably will as well.  He comes back Monday as his trip was significantly disrupted.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #723 on: March 11, 2020, 08:17:50 AM »
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #724 on: March 11, 2020, 09:04:20 AM »
Overall I suspect China's numbers to be underreported by a factor of 10 or so.  My suppliers' factories in regions nowhere near the primary outbreak areas, have been completely shut down now for almost 2 months.  That never, ever happens.  Even during CNY and Golden Week, they always have at least a skeleton crew.  But right now?  Nothing.  And they still don't know when they're coming back online.

The COVID19 case numbers they are reporting to the WHO would suggest they're containing it. 

The reality suggests something else.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #725 on: March 11, 2020, 09:09:09 AM »
I don't like China. I'd never go there. 

One of my SIL is Chinese (1st born American from immigrants) and she took her 4 kids last year. They spent the whole trip with masks on - to breathe safely.

She said she'd never go back, for any reason. I'll heed that.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #726 on: March 11, 2020, 09:15:02 AM »
Yeah, being able to see the air you breathe or stare directly at the sun at midday is not a good thing.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #727 on: March 11, 2020, 09:16:12 AM »
My brother went to China twice on business in'15 & '16 said the same thing,Soot,smog,fog,masks.You'd think as their economy picked up they might figure it out
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