Coronavirus propaganda and hype

[oldandintheway]

nothing wrong with a couple week rest for most of us. It can do a body good actually

[air2fakie]

In other news, I just spent my reserves on a S&P 500 tracker (VUSA). If I managed to nail the market bottom, I shall be even more smug than usual

Good luck. Just when you think the market can't get any lower, it keeps doing it.

[Davezor96]

Flattened - no - but the line is now linear - so it has reached an inflection point and should start flattening out from here.


In other news, I just spent my reserves on a S&P 500 tracker (VUSA). If I managed to nail the market bottom, I shall be even more smug than usual

It flattened because of the way they test people. They only test and count people that need to be hospitalized. If you're showing symptoms and don't need urgent hospitalization... they won't test you and count you in the statistic.

This is exactly why it's going to get worse... people look at graphs without really knowing what is going on... Missinterpretation in such cases is dangerous because people then get the feeling its over and that they can bend rules a little... which results in even worse scenarios...

It's far from over. It's practically just the beginning... next 2 months will be critical.

[SuffolkPunch]

It flattened because of the way they test people. They only test and count people that need to be hospitalized. If you're showing symptoms and don't need urgent hospitalization... they won't test you and count you in the statistic.

This is exactly why it's going to get worse... people look at graphs without really knowing what is going on... Missinterpretation in such cases is dangerous because people then get the feeling its over and that they can bend rules a little... which results in even worse scenarios...

It's far from over.

There are probably limits to the number of tests they carry out - but on the other hand, the proportion that have mild symptoms vs. serious will be the same now as it was then.

I'm not expecting that it be over shortly, just that the rate of growth is controlled by enough so that health facilities can cope and firms are not excessively short staffed.

[bigman334]

so for us who have 24/7 gyms.. some say it's airborne, some say not long. I'm wondering if it's cool to get a quick 3 am workout with nobody in the gym.

[CommitmentRulz]

They only test and count people that need to be hospitalized. If you're showing symptoms and don't need urgent hospitalization... they won't test you and count you in the statistic.

It's far from over. It's practically just the beginning... next 2 months will be critical.

This is simply not true in the US. They are now doing drive thru testing for ANY symptom and ANY suspected exposure. At some of the drive thru locations in my state the tests are even FREE! (If no insurance, other entities, like churches, paying for the testing.)

[health4life24]

so for us who have 24/7 gyms.. some say it's airborne, some say not long. I'm wondering if it's cool to get a quick 3 am workout with nobody in the gym.

I would regularly go to the gym early even before this and it’s usually empty but the last couple weeks have been training at home. One of my gym’s closed but a 24/7 one I belong to is still open.

I’ve been itching to go because there’s nobody there at that time but not sure if it’s worth it.

If you are around older family members etc. you gotta think about them too.

I think it could be airborne and it can definitely be on surfaces. At the very least if you decided to go bring some Lysol wipes.

[mdonnelly80]

In a few months, I'd rather be saying "Well, we might have over-reacted to this whole thing" versus "WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME!!!" while I try to buy some more canned chicken.

[pjrulez]

nothing wrong with a couple week rest for most of us. It can do a body good actually

I tend to agree! Still working in some maintenance days at home with body weight.

[OldFartTom]

In a few months, I'd rather be saying "Well, we might have over-reacted to this whole thing" versus "WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME!!!" while I try to buy some more canned chicken.

In the UK I think we'll find out in about 2 weeks from now what the comment should be. It's looking worrying currently, for perspective, UK is some weeks ahead of US in the path. Yesterday morning I heard (by phone) from a Doc in a local hospital, that the hospital was now divided in 2 sections. One section for people without Corona like heart attack, stroke, road accident - emergency only. The other section for people with Corona symptoms requiring hospital treatment. The Corona section is already beyond capacity with people on trolleys in corridors etc etc. As of Thursday only 4 officially recorded Corona deaths in the hospital, but expected to rise exponentially over next few days/weeks.

At the start, in UK there was testing (like in US currently) to try to isolate and track individuals who were infected to try to stop the spread. But as it progressed to a certain point testing to try to stop the spread became pointless (although "surveillance" testing for monitoring is useful) because spread prevention becomes impossible at a certain point. As the health service has more urgent things to do widespread testing was abandoned and now slowing/managing the spread is a better tactic.

[Xpiro]

nothing wrong with a couple week rest for most of us. It can do a body good actually

You know that this isn’t going to be over in a couple of weeks, right?

[rabiyea123]

It is better just to stay at home. I was doing public gym but now I have setup my home gym.