I am increasingly convinced that this is a problem roughly comparable in difficulty and impact to a world war. Forget these tiny steps. I want to see People’s QE with the proceeds used to finance a 3… (View Post)

Stock markets are reflecting the psychology of its participants. Normalcy bias, as highlighted by Eadric. Inability to acknowledge truly terrible events. Smart room fallacy (assuming someone somewher… (View Post)

I am in the process of rebooking my flight to avoid Middle East. I can get a single ticket for 200quid with Qantas direct. This is not normal. (View Post)

Deaths have been underreported since the start since they haven’t been doing autopsies universally and were often putting down suspicious deaths as something else on the death certificate unless ther… (View Post)

I take the opposite view that it's really good news that the numbers in Korea are jumping each day. Because of the longish incubation period, this does not mean that the rate of infection has ne… (View Post)