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All those poor, poor drug dealers 
We have to help them!
And the airlines!
And the banks and insurance companies!
And rich people who do nothing but pay people to play the stock market for them!
What, people are getting sick?
Screw them! Criminals and corprations are losing money!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And rich people who do nothing but pay people to play the stock market for them!
How considerate. You must be happy to now be able to save 12 cents at the pump...?
While I have a varied investment portfolio, the stock market is a part of it. I don't "do nothing", and I'm not exactly "rich". Even less so after the latest report. So thank you for your thoughts.
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I would like to ask the investors, corporations, drug dealers, etc. that I mentioned:Do do you think that tax money should be expended on replacing your losses, or on taking steps to prevent and cure a disease that is killing people's husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, etc? A simple question, that will tell a lot about the person who answers it.
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I know what you're saying...but it's not like the money that got wiped off the market would ever have been reallocated to fight against the disease in the first place.
So now we'll end up in this situation:
- A huge amount of money got wiped off the market
- More (tax) money is going to be used to replace losses (but certainly not mine)
- A comparatively tiny amount might be used to fight the disease
Lose/lose/tiny win
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 Good answer.
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I'm a natural at pessimism. 
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And that proves that you can not build real value on such airy things...
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So is this latest pandemic Mother natures way of reducing the population, decimating the elderly who are biologically less valuable that the young. Her way of implementing the 3 score and ten (I know that comes from the sky pixie but lets go with that).
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decimating?
I don't know how it will end... but right now is not even thousandmating the population.
And yes... I am taking the old definition of 10% to make the "joke", not the one of drastically reducing that is more extended today
But answering your question in a bit more serious tone... I am not sure if mother nature really is after this virus or we could have something to do with it as a new conspiracy theory is saying (I don't really care) but I think it will still be less hard as we actually deserve.
If I were the Mother Nature, I would be inmensely pissed off about humanity.
Heck... being human myself, I am sometimes pissed off about humanity.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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modified 12-Mar-20 19:24pm.
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Mortality among the vulnerable is about 8% I believe (compared to about 0.1% for the flu), so decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition. When you factor in deaths by all ages that number comes down, obviously, but anyone who denies covid-19 is no more dangerous than the flu is being disingenuous.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition
I had heard that the original historical definition was to reduce to 10% (i.e. kill 90%), not reduce by 10% (i.e. leave 90%) which is the commonly understood meaning (and the one that I grew up understanding it to mean).
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No, we're being realists. The flue kills tens of thousands, and even into the hundreds of thousands each year. COVID-19 has so far killed less than 5,000 people. The real panic is because it's new.
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obermd wrote: The real panic is because it's new.
And because of the relativity of the numbers...
obermd wrote: The flue kills tens of thousands
From hundreds of millions infected
obermd wrote: COVID-19 has so far killed less than 5,000 people.
from around 110k people infected. And yes, I know.. most of them were old and not that healthy, but still the % numbers are higher than the flu.
I hope you are right and it in the end is "less than the flu", I really hope it.
M.D.V.
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The flu kills that many because it is endemic, however covid 19 has just got started. Saying covid is no worse than the flu because that kills more is like jumping off a tall building and on the way down saying "so far so good".
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You trot out "sky pixie" and anthropomorphize Mother Nature in the same post?
It's just the usual competition among various sets of genes.
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Right now, there is no problem in the USofA, is there? You've got a leader who has a natural understanding of the situation.
My question is: If the pandemic hits different population groups with different strength - like when white man arrived in the new world with viruses hitting the natives like a bomb. Imagine now that Corona hits your garbage collectors, taxi drivers, street sweepers, and at the end of the summer: Your fruit pickers. Would it at all affect you?
Or, what if the WASPs were the one that really took the blow - could they easily be replaced, in your private and work environment?
For personal relationships I guess it really doesn't matter. "I'm sorry to hear that, but I still have 5119 friends on FB." That's it. Loosing a personal friend on FB may be restricted to deleting a line in your phone book.
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Nature doesn't do things with intent, things just happen.
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"Mother nature" certainly cares about life, but in a general sense, not "hunan" life in particular. Humans are in no way special.
Any decimation of any population has attacked the weak ones, whether they are the old ones, the young ones or the sick ones, whether the attack is by diseases, predators or otherwise. You could ask Darwin about that. It is not a question about the survival of the fattest, but the survival of the fittest.
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Member 7989122 wrote: "Mother nature" certainly cares about life,
I wouldn't go that far.
Mother Nature rules Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and all the rest, too.
Life? She doesn't give a damn. It's completely irrelevant to her and to the universe.
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Life. Don't talk to me about life.
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It's a warning; quit shitting on me.
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It's probabilities: "bad habits" that eventually bite back. Like "radium" face powder for that "glow".
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