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Strategies & Market Trends : Technology Stocks & Market Talk With Don Wolanchuk
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To: mjkrw462 who wrote (133058)3/7/2020 8:55:13 PM
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I said no such thing. You are putting words in my mouth that I never said.

I said that I don't care how much or how little precaution you (or anyone else) may want to take. Should you wish to, you could join the faith based crowd.

I know it is popular these days to ignore science and just go with one's gut feeling. But if popularity made things right, we'd still be believing in flat earth.

Epidemiology is a science. people study it for years and get advanced degrees on it. And yet some armchair analyst with no understanding of how diseases spread claims that because ebola is deadlier than COVID-19 and we don't have an ebola pandemic, there is no reason to worry about COVID-19 and it is all made up by social media.

For the record, where I live has one of the highest (if not the highest) concentrations of COVID-19 in NA. I am not worried about it. A dozen or two infections in a population of millions is still a very low rate. But do the math. Allow for exponential growth of n^2.5 every 5 days and see what you'd get in a few months. That doesn't mean you should hord every bit of food you can get your hands on. It means that you should reduce close contact and wash your hands frequently. Most businesses here that have the ability to do so have asked their employees to work remotely. That is the right approach.

It is not an all or nothing case. There is a lot of distance between doing nothing, taking precautions, and panicking shitless. Where you want to fall in that spectrum is your choice (for now). But is it really so hard to wash hands frequently and avoiding unnecessary crowds and close contacts?
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