Looks like a circa 4% drop in the FTSE when it opens in just over an hour - more discounting going on as the bears continue to panic.
As for Q's worry, I'm not bothered about that person having symptoms twice. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's started coming down with a cold, then the symptoms clear up. After another week or so, wham, it hits with full force - it hadn't, in fact, cleared up, it was merely in abeyence. Note that I'm NOT saying this is as mild as a cold, it clearly isn't, but it's a similar family of viruses so no surprise if it happens here.
I'm still expecting the various containments to fail and this thing to become another variant of flu out in the wild (albeit a more potent one than the usual strains). If it does, it'd lead to the following:
No more lockdowns and panic, it'd help ease the "demographic timebomb" that everyone's fretting about, result in more houses entering the market and will relieve the bed-blocking problem due to a lack of social care for the elderly.
(And yes, I know that wouldn't be nice for those who have elderly relatives or who are elderly themselves, before anyone says it. I'm lucky, I guess, in that I'm only 40 but have no elderly relatives left; I have no children and don't want any either. I guess there are very few in the same situation.)
Originally Posted by: Retron