Companies pausing travel over virus fears
02-28-2020, 10:24 AM
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Companies pausing travel over virus fears
Here's a big one. Amazon has advised its employees to pause nonessential travel domestically.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/amaz...ronavirus.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/amaz...ronavirus.html
02-28-2020, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Intrdmnslalien
Here's a big one. Amazon has advised its employees to pause nonessential travel domestically.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/amaz...ronavirus.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/amaz...ronavirus.html
02-28-2020, 10:43 AM
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Also in the above article:
"Several major tech companies have also curtailed employee travel or canceled conferences scheduled for the coming months as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Facebook on Thursday announced it would cancel its annual F8 software developer conference, while Workdaycanceled its internal sales conference that was slated to kick off next week."
"Several major tech companies have also curtailed employee travel or canceled conferences scheduled for the coming months as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Facebook on Thursday announced it would cancel its annual F8 software developer conference, while Workdaycanceled its internal sales conference that was slated to kick off next week."
02-28-2020, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by SparrowBird
standby for some troll to come here and say how the virus isn't bad. That may be true but it's the panic we should be worrying about.
also the market dropped another 700 points today. We're down 4000 points in a single week. Most drop in history.
also the market dropped another 700 points today. We're down 4000 points in a single week. Most drop in history.
Nice panic-inducing fake news.
"Most drop in history"
Points are irrelevant to history, points get inflated over time like everything else.
Percentage drop is a far better historical comparison. We're not even on the chart (not absolutely ruling it out just yet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...strial_Average
02-28-2020, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
By this Fall, 80% of us will have already had the coronovirus.
02-28-2020, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by LabDad06
How many already have and will never know it? How many people go to the doctor when they're sick? And of those, how often do doctors actually do any testing? Or do they just give you a prescription for something and tell you to take it easy...
The entire state of CA had less than 300 test kits on hand.
People are testing positive in quarantines while having never shown a symptom.
Its impossible to contain something you can’t even “see.”
02-28-2020, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
There’s gonna be some degree of disruption for the next three to six months and it may be 18 months before we completely get back to normal, By this Fall, 80% of us will have already had the coronovirus.
275 million in this country.
80% have virus means 220 million get it.
2% fatality means 4.4 million Americans dead.
02-28-2020, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ShyGuy
2% fatality rate.
275 million in this country.
80% have virus means 220 million get it.
2% fatality means 4.4 million Americans dead.
275 million in this country.
80% have virus means 220 million get it.
2% fatality means 4.4 million Americans dead.
I bet with time we'll see the perception was far worse than the reality.
02-28-2020, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SparrowBird
standby for some troll to come here and say how the virus isn't bad. That may be true but it's the panic we should be worrying about.
also the market dropped another 700 points today. We're down 4000 points in a single week. Most drop in history.
also the market dropped another 700 points today. We're down 4000 points in a single week. Most drop in history.
Maybe this virus will kill us all, but that is far from clear. The herd mentality, amplified by social media, is really driving the panic right now. As many of you have probably gathered from other posts, I've been pretty negative about AA specifically lately. But I am optimistic that the coronavirus won't be nearly as bad as some would have you believe. As always, I could be wrong.
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