I realise that one fatality due to coronavirus is one too many - unless it’s a paedophile, and it’s ten thousand too few - but the figures globally don’t seem too alarming, and the stats are nowhere near as rapid as the '18 influenza pandemic; so I do wonder what impact so-called underlying adverse health problems have where the tally is concerned . . . or for that matter, where those with colossal BMIs are more at risk. It’s all very well to advise ‘self-isolate’, but we still need to go to the supermarket.
Can I suggest you read Diane’s inspirational post and learn a few life lessons.
You can’t blame all boomers bc your parents and grandparents had zero parenting skills and raised a screwed up snowflake.
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Where did you develop all the hate?
Can’t get a decent job cause you’re a failure?
Mommy spank you too many times?
Living in the basement with mold?
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That rules me out as a millenial then. lol (actually I don’t know what a millennial is. 
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Your preposterous scenario scenario implies that ALL members of the named categories will get sick and become unable to work.
The virus will more likely affect a few of each. There will be a bell curve associated with it in each case. The higher number of deaths will likely occur among workers that have already retired.
For comparison, this is from 2017 numbers:
There should be another thread for this…
It is now history, but yesterday’s fall in the price of oil was the second-largest ever recorded. When that happened previously there were very large effects.
This has made the Japanese Yen instantly stronger, and the Euro.
It made the US$ weaker, which is good for manufacturing and export.
Let’s think about that … the US which manufactures very little and imports a heck of a lot suddenly has to pay more for imports. The powerhouse of the Euro-zone, Germany, suddenly is economically disadvantaged by a strengthening currency. As is Japan.
In another thread I opined that COVID-19 is likely the Black Swan which many have been fearing. The Russian obstinacy over oil pricing and production levels is just lunacy. Sit back and watch … there is nothing you can do besides watch.
No … oil consumption has been dropping because there is a globally soft economy which is contracting slowly. The rate of contraction just speeded-up.
Wonder if they turned 5G off first???
What are the side-effects of a country lock-down as has just happened in Italy?
In the US I guess this might happen on a state-by-state basis.
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Italy has suspended mortgage payments. This is very forward thinking.
My fear about COVID-19 is not deaths but more what this could do to the world economy.
It is naive to think that there will be no financial repercussions. Like it or not we are all inter-connected these days.
This whole Corona virus is nothing but the media trying to scare the hell out of people. It’s scary and it’s deadly but so are many other things.
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Its not just the media. Business is taking it seriously. Many large and small employers are putting in place contingency plans for business disruption.
You really think the Italian government is reacting to media hype?
Hard work, determination are just words from the past as the party of freeee offers are to the people that are unwilling to help themselves.
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I think there has always been a party of the “freebies”. The difference is now they are encouraged rather than discouraged.
The party of the “freebies” does not seem to grasp that when they start getting ahead in life, people just like them will want to take every dime they make.
It is then, they become the exact people they loathe now. Then, the reality dawns.
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I know I have. Everyone is now set up with the ability to work from home.
I cancelled a convention that we’d booked a year in advance.
What do I have to lose from this? Nothing. Nothing at all.
It is much better to be proactive rather than reactive.
Am I concerned? Yes. Am I in a panic? No. The flu kills more than this virus does.
Yet, it is a fantastic wake up call and a good drill for this country. That is the silver lining in all of it.
As proven by the ACA however never more than today.
Free college.
Debt loan forgiveness.
Government healthcares.
Redistribution of wealth on a massive scale.
The list has never been longer.
Once an entitlement is in place it nor gos away no matter what the cost.
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Good post. I suspect it will get worse before it gets better.
Of course it will get worse. And, of course it will get better. That is the nature of things 
Might want to listen to this: