It's 4 PM EDT on a weekday and I am just looking at Google Maps Traffic for the East Coast. Green, Green, Green on the major roads in every major city from New York to Chicago, Toronto to Miami. Who would ever have thought they would see the day.
Originally Posted by dvalley View Post
+1
I had my VTI buy set to $145 a couple of weeks ago, it came close ($145.30) but didn't trigger the purchase. I then lowered it even more to $141 thinking we'll see another big dip but today I'm undecided if I wait or just go in now and be done with it.
Lower it to 88, you'll get it soon enough..............
Down to 115 30 points down just 27 more points to go should see it next week!
Get your orders in now!
National drug shortages are not uncommon, especially for generic drugs. But I do not ever remember an “extreme” shortage, and one with strict protocols dictating usage. And this time, it is albuterol.
I think this portends a very heavy nationwide caseload of COVID 19, for sure not all confirmed, that will become more critically sick in the near coming days, with the next extreme shortage being ventilators (which we already see coming.) This email I think just gives us a better idea of where we are, as a nation, on the path to complete meltdown.
Or it could just be that everyone who is asthmatic ordered inhalers as soon as ll this started...
Is albuterol a treatment for Covid-19?
My stock funds have been hit very hard - down 25% to 40% YTD. My bond funds have been slightly positive to just very slightly negative YTD. Dramatic difference.My sister sold all several days ago. I did nothing. She was only set back 6 months. I am down 20%. So far. No change in AA (60/40). Both my equities and bond components seem to have been hit about equally. We shall see how this plays out.
I was down a third of a tank, so I went to Costco gas station after lunch. There were a couple of cars waiting, but many other pumps were empty. I pulled right in and filled up. Leaving, I had to circle the entire parking lot to get back on the street. The lot was about half full. On the way home, I stopped at Lowe's to check out their $1.50 vegetable plants. The garden area was not crowded, but there were a substantial number of people stocking up on garden stuff for the weekend. Some traffic in and out of the main store as well.
I needed gas. I did not need plants, so I just made a quick in and out of the open nursery area to verify the cheap plants weren't worth standing in the line that had formed. There were more than a few people in Target, judging from the parking lot I passed on the way home.
I don't think sheltering in place is being taken very seriously here. Maybe when there are more severe cases and some deaths in the news, people will stay home.
Here is one of those other impacts....
Squid sales are down in Italy!
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/20...-squid-orders-in-italy-spain-japan-slow-down/
“"Now [the octopus and squid trade] is practically all paralyzed," the first source said, noting that orders from Italy and also Japan, another large octopus importer, had dropped due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting the tourism industry in both countries. “
Here is one of those other impacts....
Squid sales are down in Italy!
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/20...-squid-orders-in-italy-spain-japan-slow-down/