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[quote=ucodegen]The death rates per age group are from a China study. It does not take into account the younger morbidly obese video game thumb jockeys we now have. We are actually seeing a large percentage of deaths in the age range from 30 to 50 in the US. [/quote]

Good point. People generally associate young=healthy. I suspect the “young and healthy” people that got taken out by the virus probably have underlining health issues that they were not aware of.

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[quote=gzz]My favorite stocks now are MET IRBT and KHC.
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My vote is to put it in the stocks market if you don’t need the money for the next few years. Not a whole lot of bargains in real estate at the moment. One would expect this coronavirus thing will eventually ripple through the housing market sometime down the road.

I actually unloaded my shares in KHC today. I like KHC, but I like SLB, CSCO & BAC better at the current prices. So that’s where my $ go.

Regarding IRBT, not sure what else they make other than ROOMBA. Definitely a niche market and it’s losing ground to the made-in China knock-offs. Bought my first roomba years ago for $400+. Needed to replace it last year and ended up buying a couple offshore brands for about $120/each. The least expensive Roomba is about $250.

To OP – how about DRIPing the money equally between US & International stock funds?

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[quote=Coronita]China reopened nature trails. Anyone want to bet when we see a spike in re-infection? I’d say maybe a month or two…

Man, if that is a hiking trail with that sort of crowd, I’ll pass. No fun. Cant imagine something like Potato Chip being like that[/quote]

I would be more worried about the bridges not holding up than catching the corona virus. Darwinism works on so many different levels. SMH.

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I am not quite sure what’s the role of a U.S. Surgeon General is. Can’t say I have any confidence in what he has to say. What do the USSG bring to the table?

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For now it’s a small price to pay. Most of us accept the reality that we all will eventually get the virus. I am fine with that. You just don’t want to be sick at the time when if you need a ventilator you’ll be competing with 500 other folks for 50 ventilators.

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What a coincidence. I have been binge-watching The Walking Dead. 28 minutes into episode 3 of season 4, Hershel is brewing elderberries tea to help his group fight off a mysterious flu-like sickness outbreak that’s been killing people left and right.

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That could be the reason. My sec cams are the no frills 720p cameras I got on amzn for $39. I could play all the videos on my phone fine with the android app – including live view. Try to do anything with them on my desktop computer was a different story until now.

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I am very unlikely to use instacart again.

There’s a major flaw with their system. I got notified via text messages for unavailable items. However, there’s no notification for the new items added by the shopper as substitute(?). I didn’t know shoppers can just add stuff to your “shopping cart” without the buyer’s authorization or knowledge.

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[quote=gzz]VLC media player is free and plays everything.

It could play h264 years ago. I think there’s a newer 265 now too.[/quote]

I have been a loyal VLC fan for years but it fails miserably with the .h264 files (those that I grab from my security cameras).
Upgraded to latest (3.x), nope.
Downgraded to some really old version (2.x), nope.
Set this, set that (demuxers, h/w accelerator), nope.

Tried GOM Player, nope.

Finally found PotPlayer, created by the same folks that created Kakao, that works like a charm without tweakings.

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[quote=spdrun]Trump was bad, Cuomo wasn’t much better. [/quote]

…and De Blasio was even more awful for being stubborn about closing down the schools. I wonder if that’s the difference between California vs New York’s infection trajectory (well, then there’s the crowded subway also).

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I spray pretty much everything, except for the meats, down with hydrogen peroxide and quarantine them in the garage for 72 hours.

A side note: finally found a video player that could play h264 video files on my computer.

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Thank goodness for credit card companies – I’ll let them sort it out. I was mindful of what’s going on (unemployment, risks that these folks are taking to do the shopping and delivering our stuff) and threw in a 20% tip on top of the $9.95 delivery fee (sigh).

Received an email from the store this morning to rate the service and took the opportunity to zero out the tip.

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[quote=spdrun]Although it’s interesting that this started in less crowded areas of cities — the index case in NYC was actually in the suburbs
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demographics

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, and the worst-affected areas are suburban(ish) Queens near JFK airport.[/quote]

follow the travel hubs.

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[quote=Coronita]3.3m unemployed people. Most in service sector, many in tourism and entertainment.
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6.6m – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-covid-weekly-initial-jobless-claims-march-28-165758189.html

it’s a ripple effect (a beautiful, yuge, bigly one).
Real estate market is next.

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[quote=Coronita]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/pelosi-s-2-5-trillion-virus-bill-delays-mortgage-car-payments

So here’s a question. Do you think our government should provide a moratorium on mortgages during this virus or not?

If so, how is this different than back during the housing crisis of 2009 many piggs were saying we should just let people lose their homes who can’t make mortgage payments?

Personally, imho this time is different in that many people could not “prevent” this thing from happening and it wasn’t an issue about moral hazard. So if that’s the case, I don’t anticipate a sudden wave of panic selling, except maybe in places where the recovery would take longer than average.

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Yes. I agree that this is a different scenario. If big banks are getting a stimulus package b/c of the coronavirus, it should be attached with the condition that the average joes should also benefit from it in the form of payment deferment. In the near term this is how I see it’s going to play out:

– stock markets are going to go side-way, but once the virus is “dealt” with it will be a quick recovery (the small potatoes are probably screwed but the warren buffetts and ackmans of the world will swoop in for the deep discounts)

– employment is going to be bad. If companies feel the need to lay off people then it’ll take them some time to stabilize to start growing again. My guess is it’s going to be bad for the next 2 years or so?

– housing will see a down tick. This virus not only inflict major damage to the world’s economies but also to the psychology of the people. Once this is over, people will be hoarding cash.

I am feeling a lot more optimistic today than a few weeks ago now that our gov’t (fed, state and locally) finally shows some leadership.

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