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uvontheterrible 6 points ago +6 / -0

They are pulling the 150M number out of their ass.

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raananh [S] 5 points ago +6 / -1

Maybe it will be less, or more, American infected with the virus. I actually think it will be much less.

I have no doubts that this year, LESS Americans will die of the flu, Corona or regular-flu, compared to other years, because of all the measures taken.

But the point that GS: even according to their calculations, the economic and human impact is very small.

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sneedwt 3 points ago +3 / -0

Agree with the fact that LESS Americans will die....also fewer are on the road, the accident totals will go down, all sorts of reasons...But the economic impact....I think we are in a precarious position..Our president will do everything he can, but when we are at the edge of the cliff, I can see his opponents giving it a push over the edge...waiting until the last minute, then not passing some sort of stimuls bill, pushing fake news to give the markets another jitter when it's starting to come back, that sort of shit.

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Dereliction 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, they're using numbers for the spread of known, highly communicable viruses. It's probably the high side of the prediction figures, but it's not conjured out of nothing.

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sneedwt 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is a good point in the last paragraph...of those dying from the Chinese virus, a certain percent of them would have died from something else in the near future..., if this didn't get them today, phenomena would have gotten them next week. But, by blaming it on this pushes the panic. Who knows what the true percentage is.

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FreeBased1 1 point ago +1 / -0

And HALF of those deaths were people with THREE preexisting health conditions. Think heart disease, diabeetus, etc.

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MAGAMillenial 3 points ago +3 / -0

How does one invest their money in stocks? I’m 27 and I have no idea how to invest.

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raananh [S] 0 points ago +1 / -1

You need to learn on you own - it's very very easy to buy stocks or invest in the stock market. Since you don't know much, and you are young, by something called "Index Fund".

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MAGAMillenial 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks for the advice on the Index Fund. I was more concerned on the HOW to purchase since I wasn’t sure if you have to go through a company or if it was something you could right out buy.

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Belleoffreedom 2 points ago +2 / -0

source?

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MaxineWaters4Prez 0 points ago +3 / -3

They're salivating at the potential windfall of mass-scale human suffering, despair, and death.

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Taxation1STheft 4 points ago +4 / -0

or mass scale human fear......I haven't seen much suffering or death. If we had an honest media this would cycling very differently. The last sentence is the key....people that were going to die later than sooner and are going to die sooner than later.