South China Morning Post: Coronavirus overtakes Sars, 60 million Chinese in Chinese Cities Locked Down

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About five million residents left Wuhan before the city went into lockdown, revealed mayor Zhou Xianwang on January 26. Most headed to other cities in Hubei province according to Baidu, China’s popular search engine.
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  • Posted by BillJ 4 years ago
    Since you are posting about the stock market and the effects of the virus, I wanted to ask a more general about gold and silver. I am seeing a rather unprecedented occurence. Historically when the market sells of, gold and silver prices go up. But during this sell off the opposite is happening and I can't find an explanation except I am prepared to take advantage of it.

    There is more to all of this in regards to history but i really would like to understand this.

    Does anyone have an explanation as to what is going on?
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    • Posted by 4 years ago
      The "price" of silver is more than one price today.
      The traditional price of silver is the price of physical silver. That price goes up in times of troubles. Per this article, that is still true:
      https://realmoney.thestreet.com/inves...
      The "price" of physical silver 1 ounce rounds is about $24/oz.
      The price that you are seeing dropping is the Wall St manipulated price of a silver index fund which has no connection whatsoever to physical silver. Originally it was advertised as a way to "trade" silver while having the silver in inventory of the company that started the index fund. For more than a decade that "price" has been manipulated by Wall St companies to assure that their trading of metals was profitable and on a day to day basis they do not have to have silver in inventory. Holders of the index funds have no right to exchange their shares for physical silver. It is fiat silver.
      Today the price of physical silver has nearly a 100% premium over the index fund pricing.
      Wall St is a den of thieves and looters. The current silver index price is a perfect example.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years ago
    Inherited a bunch of stocks from my late Dad that's now in my own will.
    Not worried about the plunge. Stupid to sell now. The share prices will all climb back up when the scare goes away.
    It's possible the latest pandemic may kill this old dino; but whenever I get to take my dirt nap, I won't care.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 4 years ago
    See the Four Corners documentary on coronavirus, about 45 minutes long. See if you think the Chinese government's reaction to the doctors who starting trying to figure this out makes any sense. To me it doesn't.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 4 years, 1 month ago
    Liquidated most of my equities in light of this. Tough to do in this market. I hope I’m wrong...
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    • Posted by 4 years, 1 month ago
      Today the market is up because we shouldn't fear coronavirus. Last week it was down in fear of coronavirus. Today WS creating an opportunity to short the market; tomorrow WS puppets will announce that the death toll is much higher than reported and the DOW will drop 1000. Then the bad news on Tesla motors will be announced and WS will make big profits on the short sales they are making today. As the wicked witch said, "What a world. What a world." Wall Street fiddles as the world burns. (Speculation on my part.) Note: 20% increase in China infected today.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 4 years, 1 month ago
    This virus changes very quickly. And it appears to have a segment mid-RNA much like HIV. Seems to be man-made to this observer.
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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 4 years, 1 month ago
    Over the past few days, the mainstream press has vigorously pushed back against a theory about the origins of the coronavirus that has now infected as many as 70,000+ people in Wuhan alone (depending on whom you believe). The theory is that China obtained the coronavirus via a Canadian research program, and started molding it into a bioweapon at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. Politifact pointed the finger at Zero Hedge, in particular, though the story was widely shared across independent-leaning media.

    The theory is that the virus, which was developed by infectious disease experts to function as a bio-weapon, originated in the Wuhan-based lab of Dr. Peng Zhou, China’s preeminent researcher of bat immune systems, specifically in how their immune systems adapt to the presence of viruses like coronavirus and other destructive viruses. Somehow, the virus escaped from the lab, and the Hunan fish market where the virus supposedly originated is merely a ruse.
    Now, a respected epidemiologist who recently caught flack for claiming in a twitter threat that the virus appeared to be much more contagious than initially believed is pointing out irregularities in the virus’s genome that suggests it might have been genetically engineered for the purposes of a weapon, and not just any weapon but the deadliest one of all.
    In “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag“, Indian researchers are baffled by segments of the virus’s RNA that have no relation to other coronaviruses like SARS, and instead appear to be closer to HIV. The virus even responds to treatment by HIV medications.
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