The policy of the USA is interesting. They have decided to test only people who have been in China recently. So basically they will deal with the outbreaks and won't try to slow it from the beginning.
Just anecdotal reports, but people who have been to the hospital around here recently report that they can't handle the volume of patients with whatever is going around right now. Some older person somebody knows went to the hospital with flu/pneumonia symptoms and was promptly released; then the next day, he died. Then somebody else I used to work with has viral pneumonia and looks like hell. Makes me wonder if the virus is already here and it's just being considered a seasonal flu. Hopefully I had it in January.
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Dow Futures -1.5%
Oil Futures -3.42% down to $45/barrel handle
Bitcoin -2%
Gold -1%
Going to be another shit day.
Airline stocks are getting pummeled, but the trans-atlantic flights from US to Europe keep going up. Demand is going down, oil prices going down, yet those ticket prices are increasing. Sometimes I really fucking hate the airlines.
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