MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

Post by koheripbal » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 12:32 AM UTC

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It makes sense total sense to compare, it's another respiratory virus, from a family of viruses already known. We must not reinvent the wheel when we know the dynamics of these viruses and the countermeasures to take. The key metric that determines whether COVID-19 can establish and generate a sustained outbreak is it's ability to reproduce, "R", which represents the average number of individuals to which each transm…

This is outdated information. Most newer studies put R0 >3 (e.g. [1]) and there are many well documentated cases outside of China now which confirm at least partial presymptomatic transmission (German cluster, Signapore Conference, British prisoners). [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v...

Post by sub7 » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

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There's been a grand fiscal policy experiment over the last 12 years unlike anytime before. It has resulted in every asset class losing price discovery mechanisms and basically becoming untethered from fundamentals. Nobody knows how this will end, or when. Could be months, could be decades.

I agree with your comment about the fiscal policy experiment, but not with your stated timeline of 12 years. QE was a smart way out of the crisis, but we didn't tighten as we ought've when the economy got up to speed about five years ago. I think of QE as the choke on a carbureted engine; once you get things heated up, you should lean out the mixture. Meanwhile, Bernanke is still out here talking about QE as a foreve…

Post by scirocco » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

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Where does that attitude towards tourism come from? I know this is politics but other places would welcome tourism and professional conferences with open arms. When I see a group of tourists cueing in front of something in Copenhagen - sure - I might get annoyed but those people are bringing in money. Not to me personally. But that tourist money gets taxed or spent again. And ultimately it ends up being spent on a ni…

From what I've read about Barcelona, it's more like living in a Disneyland, every day you're just swimming in crowds of tourists, from all over the world, bringing their idiosyncrasies. All (or a lot) of the shops are shops selling touristic trinkets. Want to eat at that nice restaurant? It's crowded, with loud Americans and Brits. 7 nights a week...