I'm ready for this Wuhan Bat Flu pandemic to fade a little. The stock market has dropped the Dow from near 30 thousand to just under 20 thousand, a loss of about one third. My IRA is shot and unless it recovers, so are my longer term plans for retirement.
The news stories are all of the increasing number of cases, but never of the deaths, which is the real number. Cases don't mean a thing because the sampling, the testing, is not being done randomly out of the entire population, but selectively only from those who present themselves with symptoms. Deaths will be low.
Toilet paper shortages? Really? Hoarding, social distancing, businesses by the hundreds of thousands closing, layoffs, canceled presidential primaries, worry - all are becoming common. The news media is beginning to be repetitious, which is a good sign. Soon the novelty will wear off and we'll notice we need more in our lives than news about the virus.
This is the new normal for a while, so the virus and its news will become background noise for whatever else we're doing in our daily lives. It's about damned time we wake up from this fever dream and realize most of us should be ashamed of how we've been acting.
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