Covid-19 has its foothold. If pandemic doubling holds at 6 days, the United States as a whole, is out of hospital beds at the beginning of May 2020. Some counties will be run out in the next week.
Panic buying has already started. Costco is sold out of toilet paper, some people buying pallets of it, and trying to sell it at inflated prices on Kijiji or Craigslist. No one wants to buy vegan products, they are never sold out. Why toilet paper. No one knows. This is a respiratory disease, doesn't affect your digestion.
What should have been frightening people this week is that President Trump is clearly in poor physical and mental health, and under increasing stress. There is better than even odds that he bursts a vessel, and we have President Pence. No one really gave much thought to the Rapture, other than the evangelicals, of who the new president was one.
And the stress skyrocketed as the stock market and oil prices all tank. Russia and Saudi Arabia conspired to depress the price of Oil, by getting into an argument about quotas, then flooding the market with cheap crude. The additional shock of the oil price war, on top of Covid-19, will hit the USA hard. We kept forgetting that Putin didn't have his money yet, and was still out for revenge. There was no normal estimate to when prices would stabilize, they would stabilize once the USA was beyond stabilizing.
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