Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
Isn't the delivery time for babies 9 months or so? I think this would be a plan-able event. As well, if this gets really bad - the reproduction rates in Europe after the black plague always skyrocketed. Just imagine this amazing potential ...
Anyway - while I understand that shorters love to foster a good panic to make hay ... I don't think that this new flu will be much worse than other flues.
Every year around 56,000 people world wide are dying from the flu without people stopping to reproduce and putting their life on halt. 1.25 million people die every year in road crashes without people stopping to reproduce, and they don't even quarantine their cars, and only in the US (I don't found the worldwide data) are every year more than 40,000 people dying from gun violence - and hey - how do they like guns! It feels the gun lovers reproduce like cockroaches.
Just remind me - how many people died so far of the corona virus? I think the latest number was less than 60?
While shorters might be able to create some short term market ripples - the long term impact on markets and peoples lives will be ZERO.