re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s only percentage drops that matter — not point drops. The largest percentage drop in history was the 22.6% on Oct 22, 1987. The total 4 day decline this week is 11.13%, which is less than half the drop in the single day in 1987.

This market will all recover quickly if the coronavirus threat dissipates for this year — which is quite possible. So far, worldwide there are only 83,000 cases reported; in the US over the past 4 months there have been 29 million to 41 million cases of flu. Every time we think that some action will finally bring down this administration, we have been wrong — and so far, it doesn’t appear that this will ultimately succeed either.

True, but Trump does seem to be doing his damndest to fuck this up. Only thing worse he could do right now is put Mike “heck-of-a-job-brownie” Brown in charge of the response.