March 20th 2020

[Tiggnutz]

Happy Friday HMF. Be safe out there

[Ava]

Off to work as Darth Corona.... My voice is so muffled in all that I feel like Vader.

[Jason]

Suddenly feel pretty under the weather.

Not good.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

My allergies have been kicking up, and you bet I get dirty looks.

[Tiggnutz]

Worst possible time for allergies man

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Yep, and I know it's allergies because it's all the usual itchy sinus crap.

[Dream]

My allergies have been kicking up, and you bet I get dirty looks.

Same. Trying to say "It's just allergies" gets you dirtier looks.

[Dream]

Suddenly feel pretty under the weather.

Not good.

Here's hoping it's a minor cold.

[Monster]

Suddenly feel pretty under the weather.

Not good.

Here's hoping it's a minor cold.

Amen to that. Take care, Jason.

[Jason]

While it's been fun watching my stocks plummet, I just realized my 401k is doing the same. I should have cashed it out when I moved, but thought I'd roll it over to the new job. Now it's been trashed. Bit of a bummer, really.

I definitely wouldn't sell. It should restore in time as the virus passes through. But I have no degree in economics. My friend John Elway would have some sound advice, though.

[Jason]

Everyone should at least check in so we don't worry HMF family

Present. :p

Don't wanna jinx, but I woke up feeling quite normal this morning. Really odd.

[showa58taro]

While it's been fun watching my stocks plummet, I just realized my 401k is doing the same. I should have cashed it out when I moved, but thought I'd roll it over to the new job. Now it's been trashed. Bit of a bummer, really.

I definitely wouldn't sell. It should restore in time as the virus passes through. But I have no degree in economics. My friend John Elway would have some sound advice, though.

There’s no easy way out if this recession. Expect it to be bad for 1-2 years I’m guessing. Nothing to be done about that fact from here.

[Jason]

I'm leaning more toward late Summer, imo.

[showa58taro]

I'm leaning more toward late Summer, imo.

They aren’t letting any of the global workforce back into society until there or thereabouts and unemployment will be skyrocketing by then. There is simply no way this recession lasts less than a year with stock markets continuing to suffer and general economic contraction. Only real hope is that we avoid hyper inflationary economics as that’s the one thing that will crater the global economy.

Honestly, this is really bad and really disruptive. I’m just thrilled we have Rishi Sunak in the drivers seat right about now and not sone of the Brexiteers who’d have fucked this so hard, and that my job is incredibly safe.

[Jason]

We shall see. It's a waiting game, for sure.

[showa58taro]

My hope is the goal goes from isolation and suppression back to mitigation as we build hospitals and ventilators and discover a medicine that helps fight it in serious cases. That’s be nice.

[Jason]

I've pulled an aggregate from many certified medical practitioners and infectious disease experts. It's weird to see that so many experts in the same field can have drastically different opinions about this than the others.