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Doubled in a week.

INTU are a disaster. Piling into offline malls as everyone piled into online warehouses. The rumour of a government bailout, though, may see this one spike up from 4p in the next few weeks.

The US a few hours ago surpassed China and Italy to become the world's no.1 most-infected C19 country, New York is almost out of control (worse than Wuhan), and the total is set to pass 100k by the weekend. The Dow is running on $6 trillion of stimulus euphoria for now, but that won't last forever.

The Dow has been astonishing in the past month. The whipsaw has matched anything seen in 1929, 1987 or 2008. Trading the swings up and down has been great fun. One of the most profitable months ever.

Labour are the new communists. Tories are the new Labour. Big tax, big debt.

Surprised at the lack of activity here. CEO has been buying shares on the downswing, quite a few contracts won or renewed in recent weeks, and the shares have bounced strongly with momentum from a -70% slide.

Is up by 500,000 in a week.

Like to see all major FTSE companies slash their dividends and reinvest the hundreds of billions in R&D.

Cut the short-term greed and focus on long-term national growth.

Way too many companies focused on short-term wasted dividends, and losing out long-term. Companies like Vodafone and BT should be ruling the world, but they waste it on excessive dividends, and keep on declining every year.

It is a relief rally. The shares had collapsed -70% in a month and were priced for total shutdown and mega debt. But they are only partly shut down, and they have plenty of cash on hand (for now), plus government wages support if needed.

If Charlie has given C19 to the 93yo Queen, 98yo Philip and the rest of his family, they could start dying off, which will spark a constitutional crisis, and the FTSE100 and 250 will tank. Could be looking at FTSE 4k, if Charlie is bad. Hopefully, though, they are fine. They get the best healthcare on Earth, personal surgeon, etc.

Interesting to see how Britain now has glorious sunny weather and blue skies -- within days of the lockdown...

No choking pollution at ground level, no hazy smog at mid level, no blocking contrails or vapour at high level.

Better weather is due to a high-pressure system parked off the coast, of course. But the skies and landscape are clearer than ever seen before.

UK should do a 2-week total shutdown every year. Give the planet a rest.

The only people working in that time should be government workers, who can continue to toil and pay into the pot, so I can claim a universal basic income (UBI) for free during the lockdown.

Give it a rest, dude.

It is very simple.

1. The C19 death rate is 10 times higher than normal flu. That means 10 x more patients in hospital.

2. The C19 disability rate is 20 times higher than normal flu. That means 20 x more patients in hospital.

3. The C19 infection rate is 2 times higher than normal flu. That means it spreads twice as fast. Exponential. Parabolic. There is no cure.

Do the maths...

Left unchecked (no quarantine or social distancing), those 40 official UK cases on Mar 1st, 2020, would be 42 million by May 1st, 2020... If 20% get critical and hospitalized and need (flu-grade) ventilators, you're looking at 8 million ventilators required... The NHS currently has about 5 thousand intensive care beds with ventilators...

Clearly, the panic started in Wuhan, China, because the local hospitals ran out of ventilators and intensive care beds in days. In early December, it was a normal hospital. In later December, waves of patients choking to death on lung fluids were piling in like zombies. That is how this all started.

A highly infectious, highly pathogenic, invisible killer that is completely overwhelming the world's healthcare systems.

So, please, give it a rest. It is getting tiresome.

Surprised there is not more activity here. ITV's viewing figures are up 20-100% since the lockdown. Bringing in a whole new generation of viewers from the 11-30 age range.

China = buy some bleach.
West = buy ten billion face masks.

After the Wuhan death plague, bat soup and pangolin burgers, it is hard to see the world warming to frankenstein fish or meat. The industry has an uphill battle to convince people it's safe.

The S&P (in that study) is part of the world's richest and most dynamic economy. It always bounces up.

By contrast, the FTSE is a heap of junk, packed with dinosaur firms from the 20th century, and almost none addressing the 21st century. It has not gone up in the past 23 years (quarter of a century).

ITV has collapsed -90% from its peak, and will never return to its peak in a thousand years of trading.

Gonna crash 1000-2000 points tomorrow. Biggest and fastest collapse in world stockmarket history just a whisker away.

The Norway government recently took a 10% stake in Norwegian Air, and the shares have dropped ~20% since then.

There will be yet another NHS crisis in 6-12 months... Just as the 2nd wave of coronation street virus hits in the autumn, there will be a massive new-baby spike, as well as a surge in suicide attempts as millions run out of cash, status and hope. A three-legged storm.

As predicted, yet again, the government is going to bailout EZJ -- but take a big equity stake. Existing shareholders will probably get diluted between 10% and 80%. No planes are going to be flying in Europe for months, perhaps 1-2 years. Nobody will want to sit in a crowded metal tube with the incurable death plague circulating in the air system.