WOW!!! 

These numbers sound more accurate than the 250 deaths that China is reporting.  You don't build 3 heath centers in 10 days for 250 deaths.

Some sources
28 mil affected
2.8 mill quaranteened
112k dead

Those numbers i believe.

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President Xi came out today and poured some cold water on the "this will be over soon" wishful thinking. They were supposed to open the Foxconn plants today but we will see that that actually means. Indications are this is a lot worse than what they are letting on, but on the bright side Trumps trade war might be over.

I am not surprised by the updated numbers from "intel".  A close friend is part of the State of Hawaii health emergency response-something-or-other and while no immediate alarm locally, the general message to me was the whole situation is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.  Mostly because the spread to poorer countries in the region (Vietnam, Thailand, etc) that have little to no resources for this quickly escalating virus.

I had not heard about Foxconn but I heard they reopened 10% of the Tesla plant and Apple (I think).

apple doesn't make anything
hon hai (Foxconn) is the major producer of iPhones and iPads, and I believe apple laptops, not sure about computers
they were supposed to restart today, but it was postponed

Thanks for clearing that up. I try and keep up with the business news but I find myself not remembering details correctly lately. Stress and old age.

sold the rest of my AAPL last week
for some reason, still up since then
Cramer was screaming about the effects of the corona virus on tech stocks
and yahoo reporting that docks are slow since shipments from china haven't restarted after Chinese new year
and also a report about most of pharmaceuticals coming from china
even if the infection is confined to china, it will still have a huge effect on the world economy
something or someone is still propping up the stock market, but I sold all my mom's mutual funds in her IRAs today
not that cash is going to be any better in the zombie apocalypse...

If you quote yourself and then post something new to yourself, isn’t that like talking to yourself? Heads

While I have made a great deal of money in the stock markets over the long haul, I lost my nerve back in early 2008 and sold all of my stock. In hindsight that was a great move because I sold right before the crash. The problem is I never jumped back in and missed probably the greatest rally ever. I decided to invest in real estate instead. Slow and steady wins the race they say. But it sure would have been nice if I could have sped up the process. I played the market back in the early 2000’s. I started with a couple of grand and turned it into a pretty good size chunk in a matter of a year. But I’ll never do that again. Too much work and stress for what I made. But the excitement and adrenaline when I sold big was amazing. I’m happy with my financial position I have now. I’m getting ready to retire. Just could have done better.

You can never time the market perfectly. You probably jumped out too soon. But if I learned one thing from my time in the markets. Never second guess yourself. See my comments above. I constantly second guess myself. It’s not good for you. So take your profits and wait out the virus. Just be ready to jump back in when the time looks good. Find something safe to put your money in temporarily until this whole thing blows over. Just one word. If the virus does not become a pandemic here in the US. And if our markets are not terribly affected by China’s shut down, our markets are not going to crash. So be ready every day to make that call. 

sold the rest of my AAPL last week
for some reason, still up since then
Cramer was screaming about the effects of the corona virus on tech stocks
and yahoo reporting that docks are slow since shipments from china haven't restarted after Chinese new year
and also a report about most of pharmaceuticals coming from china
even if the infection is confined to china, it will still have a huge effect on the world economy
something or someone is still propping up the stock market, but I sold all my mom's mutual funds in her IRAs today
not that cash is going to be any better in the zombie apocalypse...

If you quote yourself and then post something new to yourself, isn’t that like talking to yourself? Heads

While I have made a great deal of money in the stock markets over the long haul, I lost my nerve back in early 2008 and sold all of my stock. In hindsight that was a great move because I sold right before the crash. The problem is I never jumped back in and missed probably the greatest rally ever. I decided to invest in real estate instead. Slow and steady wins the race they say. But it sure would have been nice if I could have sped up the process. I played the market back in the early 2000’s. I started with a couple of grand and turned it into a pretty good size chunk in a matter of a year. But I’ll never do that again. Too much work and stress for what I made. But the excitement and adrenaline when I sold big was amazing. I’m happy with my financial position I have now. I’m getting ready to retire. Just could have done better.

You can never time the market perfectly. You probably jumped out too soon. But if I learned one thing from my time in the markets. Never second guess yourself. See my comments above. I constantly second guess myself. It’s not good for you. So take your profits and wait out the virus. Just be ready to jump back in when the time looks good. Find something safe to put your money in temporarily until this whole thing blows over. Just one word. If the virus does not become a pandemic here in the US. And if our markets are not terribly affected by China’s shut down, our markets are not going to crash. So be ready every day to make that call. 

I've made (and lost) plenty of money on AAPL over the years
i'm all in cash now in my SIMPLE-IRA
my ROTH-IRA is self-directed and all in real estate

are you on Bigger Pockets?

As soon as oblama crashed the markets I moved in, bought up all low,  after his reign of terror, and trump got elected I've been making a killing!     Going to lay off a while now that this china thing is getting nuts, and just incase the demos steal the election and kill the economy again.