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Comment by temac

For some young people, it might ressemble to a "bad cold", and some people might even be completely asymptomatic, HOWEVER:

- in France 50% of ICU patients are under 60

- this is really the wrong message to pass

- for some people around 30 this more closely resemble to a very bad flu, with extra bonus symptoms

- you are not getting very accurate numbers from Italy right now: only people dying in an hospital are counted, but some are dying at home (the symptoms are very fast evolving at the end, and the medical system is surcharged)

Now I don't discuss that for probably at least 98% of contaminated, (and maybe even more), they will live. But this is certainly not a bad cold, by any fucking standard. For anybody.

We don't halt the world for "bad colds".

> As panic sets in, if you've got some cash to invest in the markets and a long time horizon to draw on it, this may be the money making opportunity of a generation.

Most people have other preoccupations; but if you want to be seen as are seen the people who made a fortune during 9/11, by all means focus on that.

parent temac 6 years ago

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