To: waverider who wrote (106495 ) 10/8/2001 2:29:16 PM From: Lipko Read Replies (1) | Respond to Rick - and Qcom at the opening today was down 80%, not out of line with Sunw and EMC (and many others). I want to believe that, sooner rather than later, the market, as leading indicator, will look out 6-9 months and the view will be better. In the meantime, things are tough. Here in Manhattan, NYC, things are getting back to the new "normal" we are in the process of discovering and defining. New Yorkers are incredibly resilient - my friend in the office just moved back to his Battery Park City apartment (apartments on the building's other side were badly damaged), and he walks around the rubble to get there. People were back in the outdoor cafes and restaurants over the weekend, they put up with many varieties of commutation difficulties, pleasure craft are back in Hudson River and the Coast Guard gunboats (1 large caliber and two normal machine guns mounted and ready for action) no longer seek to board excursion boats checking individual photo ID's, joggers were out in Battery Park yesterday for basically the first time, people have figured out how to use different subway stations and lines in lieu on the ones destroyed. We are surviving, and even showing signs of thriving - still worrying about the next episode, but functioning pretty much on the September 10 level. We are a resilient people; our psychology has changed in just the last week; our Columbus Day Parade (with muted, memorial, participation only from our Fire and Police Departments), is just finishing now. The American Red Cross has 21,000 volunteers (19,000 from the New York area) who are working or have worked at Ground Zero or in one of the many other rescue, recovery and personal and financial recovery centers [to say nothing of the construction workers who are doing most of the actual work down at the site], and their photo ID's get them from on our busses and subways free. We as a city can recover; we as a nation will recover; perhaps sooner than the abjectly pessimistic market seems to be telling us. Thanks just for listening. Best, as always, John
