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What pushed you to sell DIS? Hi HM - I still like DIS in the long term, but prefer ALX and WFC for now. I bought DIS between $85 and $80 and would likely start buying again under $90. Also, added to WFC and started a new position in DOW. Thanks Lance Got it, that makes sense. WFC has been left for dead. Trump doing his best to put a bullet in the back of their head. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260206276216266754

Which foreign utopia are you from?

WFC

Yeah, sure developing countries have healthy populations. They are just crushing this chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy Please all go to Africa and work in subsistence farming. You'll be so healthy. Just leave all your stuff for people who decide to stay and suffer in the first world countries. They need it. ::) Healthy with respect to blood pressure and diabetes particularly is what I meant. And those are key issues for this virus as I understand it. Diabetes by country: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.DIAB.ZS/rankings Hypertension prevalence by country: https://www.who.int/gho/ncd/risk_factors/blood_pressure_prevalence/en/ Hypertension deaths by country: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/hypertension/by-country/ Here is my source for rural Africans as I initially mentioned: https://nutritionfacts.org/2017/04/06/high-blood-pressure-normal-but-not-natural/ I don't know who (population) your source includes. In another article, the same source, Dr. Michael Greger, says the same thing applies to rural Chinese. The key point is a largely vegan whole food diet, with meat a couple of times a year, leads to the good outcomes in blood pressure and diabetes. That is not what rich countries typically have. If Africans and Chinese adopt our diets, they will have the same results. The results cited by Dr. Greger refer to rural Africans with traditional diet. FWIW my sister lives in rural Laos and the diabetes rates are crazy high because of all the sticky rice.

This is being looked at by many (need models and statistics though :) ). {i live in a socialized medicine world and there are costs to waiting just as there are costs for excessive care}. It appears clear that delaying major cardiac surgeries has resulted in people dying while waiting. Also, anecdotally and progressively from more solid evidence, because of imposed shortages and people actively avoiding care, patients tend to come late for various conditions (heart attack, stroke) and obviously this limits the options that could reverse, at least partially, the consequences. The answer will become clearer when excess mortality data will be collected and analyzed. There will be excess mortality from COVID-19 and from the above but it also appears that there will be much less mortality from accidents. i read Spekulatius mentioning that hospitals are open for business but this is far from being the case in my province (especially urban centers). There are many places where a large part of the workforce is either CV+, in quarantine or simply decide to avoid work. Definitely. There are still a lot of hospitals and outpatient centers near us which are not allowed to perform many elective surgeries. In fact, my Mom had to have a series of back surgeries for a herniated disc. She had one surgery in early March and he second follow up one has been postponed (tbd). Now she isn't in immense pain or on any drugs at the moment, but it's still frustrating because he lingering issues still bothers her. Not to mention where my parents live there is not a single Covid-19 patient. I'm no surgeon, but I imagine the timing of a series of surgeries plays some type of role in effectiveness, outcome, and path forward. I imagine there are individuals in much worse situations. The hospital my wife used to work at in Ohio has cut employee pay and laid off a lot of staff simply because they are getting crushed revenue wise for not being able to perform elective surgeries. Not sure how widespread this is, but I have read reports of this happening in other states as well. Unintended consequences...truly a shame...

Exited all but one GOOG $1500 Jan 2022 leaps I bought about a little over month ago at 5.5 for 16.9 F&^k me....could I have missed out on more? Almost certainly! But damn, how can I pass this up in the short term? options = increased risk/reward and emotions Would you have taken profits?

Anyone have any thoughts on how many deaths will be related to elective surgeries being canceled? I guess you could also look at potential factors that lead to premature death as a result of postponing surgeries or treatments but I’m not sure you could quantify that.

MSGS, BRK

https://www.wtae.com/article/upmc-chief-medical-officer-what-we-cannot-do-is-extended-social-isolation/32393261 Head of UPMC in PA - 110 of 5500 beds occupied by covid patients - Average age of covid death in PA is 84 - 65% of covid patients in PA come from nursing home facilities.

Did we drain the swamp yet? His hacienda indeed. And his zombie followers fall for it (thinking he's looking out for the 'little guy') every single time. Now prepare to watch this whistleblower's name dragged through the mud by the zombies willing to do their master's bidding. You’re voting Biden right? ;D

They have to reach the pharynx which is located pretty far in. My buddy had one done for some other test and said it was uncomfortable, burned, and made his eyes water. The videos do look disturbing. He described it as "A prostate exam for your face" ;D

Are you going to get tested now? I am not eligible per prevailing criteria apparently, so no. I've heard that you can pay some doctors $100 for an antibody test. Probably depends on locality and availability though. Dr. Scott G mentioned something about it yesterday.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I’ve looked at this company a few times and it’s interesting but long term I find it hard to be confident in their “moat”. Curious what your quick take is if you don’t mind sharing.

Added both of these and a touch of RTX, VZ

Yea, I dont know but the frauds and hypocrites have been revealing themselves in full color with Biden. At least I've been honest. I could give two shits about how awful a person Trump is or how Biden is a corrupt creep but I could live with him in the WH as well. But the fake contempt people disgusted by Trumps behavior are now showing its all just blabber as they excuse and downplay and rationalize the very same issues with Joe...The #metoo frauds like Milano. Believe all women except when its inconvenient to you, right? Tara Reade doesn't remember what she put in the Senate complaint. She goes out of her way to draw attention to Biden in her complaint filed with the Senate but then doesn't even mention the assault? She complained that he made her uncomfortable and so she was assigned a new spot where she would be away from him. What else are they going to do, reassign Biden? First she went to law school, then a Biden staffer, then a singer, an actress, a cat lady. Her history doesn't point to stability -- drama, yes. Singer, actress -- attention getter. That said, it doesn't for certain mean that she is lying. Those people do exist though and instability and drama are red flags hallmarks. So she is a mix between Julie Swetnick and Christina Ford.... While your response is a reasonable one, people dont get to play this card. Not after how they behaved with the Kavanaugh allegations. Not after the incessant whining about quality of character with Trump. The presumption of innocence was destroyed by liberals over the past 4 years. You dont get it back because your guy is running. Trump is a narcissistic clown, and Biden is a world class establishment creep. Those are our candidate for POTUS. At least lets treat them the same and stop pretending this is a case of Jesus running against Hitler. Try as they might, the Conservatives cannot wash their hands clean when they find one witness against one Liberal. Clinton, yes, there were more cockroaches in the kitchen. When we find another, then another, and another, with Biden we will then know we have a creep. Not even close yet. He's almost 80 and he has been in office for decades and all you've got to show for it is a woman who cannot remember what she complained about in her report.

Answer with the classic one liner from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. Question: What do you do for a living? Response: “Ha ha.....plz *shoulder brush*” Congrats btw

Amash is worth a look for anyone looking for a candidate that is economically conservative and socially progressive. Not to mention respectful and intelligent. When I thought our candidates couldn’t get any worse than Trump and Hillary....here we are... I’ll leave it at that since this isn’t a political thread. Amash 2020

You could give the money away to a worthy charity. One such worthwhile charity is the Democratic Party :D You’d get a better return giving it to the Italian Mafia

Freedom to pursue happiness (and possibly fail) Has morphed into Freedom to pursue and pursue and pursue and pursue. Failure is now only the result of “interference” and a bailout is now apparently appropriate? Edit: Epic post

CTL Took profits. Not interested in bag holding this with whatever the "wfc like scam" is.

You've officially become the house troll here. Greg’s not wrong. Dalala already said “I’d rather vote for a guy who stutters.” I’m waiting for the Biden voters to say “we’re voting for the lesser of two evils.” It’s time Americans take a look at the two party system. The last 40 candidates have been complete and utter shit. Not a single person in the last and current election cycle have been “leaders”. All a bunch of hacks with shady pasts and motives. If you’re voting for Biden, I don’t want to hear a single negative thing about Trump from here on out. They are literally two versions of the same individual.

Trump and Biden are both unfit imo.

How does this work for pricing below 0? (I couldn't access the article)

Perfect cop out. Now shift blame to the states. It's not a cop out. Its called the 10th Amendment. States are to be in charge of heath and public safety. It's the same reason why we have State police and not Federal police in every state. All states (as far as I'm aware) have constitutions that outline public health and safety actions. Here is PA I was talking with a friend who works in the capital. They informed me there is a literally a room with hundreds of binders that have step by step action plans for every conceivable situation. Federal funding and aid does not come until states declare emergency. Many states did not declare emergency for a long time. Now this could be because a lack of leadership and awareness being made from the federal level. At the end of the day decisions and actions were taken and at some point we will have to look back and see what was done and not done correctly. Plenty of blame to go around. Don't get me wrong. There is plenty of blame to go around and the federal actions were piss poor. But the states and even local officials are also to be held accountable. Greg is not wrong about this. Lack of PPE and precautions taken at state hospitals should equally scrutinized alongside the federal response. Supreme court has rules in the past that during extraordinary times the federal govt can step in and temporarily violate the BoR such as 4th amendment. But they were clear that these violations MUST be temporary and within scope of the objective. So all the extra "pork" we are seeing in these Bills is largely unconstitutional. Alongside this, DT actually does have the authority to temporarily lock down the nation from a federal level. Clearly that's supposed to be with discretion, and probably would be handled alongside what States are already implementing.