Loading ...-but…but… will gold ans silver follow stocks down?…they didn’t Friday nor did the $ rally…
I sold a nice sized potion in WPM on Friday at close in my IRA
I couldn’t resist. Silver looks like shit, WPM had a huge breakout, the RSI was way overbought and the shorts needed shares so I sold them to the boys. I’m going to become more active in trading again for a while. I didn’t get my option puts in GDX as I had hoped for but no reason to get punked by the boys. If it keeps going I can try my hand at something else. WPM is my largest holding and I can’t have so much skin exposed
ororeef, 0:01
vaccines, yes, we’re still waiting for a vaccine for the common cold.
…but we do have vaccines for the flu. every year we are urged to get our “flu shots.”
with coronavirus, which seems to mutate as readily as the flu, is there any reason to believe that a coronavirus vaccine would be any more effective than flu shots which do a half-assed job of protecting us from last year’s version of the flu?
I’m not going to post this on social media because it could create a panic amongst other things.
Besides economic shut downs and food disruptions from COVID it’s also affecting power plants. For those invested in these areas not to mention possible accidents.
Not just electric power but nuclear power.
The attack of the coronavirus has even altered the business of nuclear plants. U.S. nuclear plants “will be allowed to keep workers on longer shifts to deal with staffing problems in the coronavirus pandemic.”
Naturally, this is raising worries among watchdogs and people living near nuclear plants about employee exhaustion possibly causing accidents.
The nuclear industry is “scrambling to keep up mandatory staffing levels through what will be weeks or months more of the outbreak.” Extending shifts would allow workers to work up to 86 hours per week.
Nuclear plant workers are currently having their temperatures taken as they arrive for each shift, and employers are considering having workers live at plants full-time for a while, during this outbreak.
Federal inspectors on and off site would monitor employees to make sure the plants do not work any employees to the point of exhaustion, and if necessary, they could revoke the expanded shifts.
Expanded hours, say supporters of the idea, could reduce crew rotations and minimize exposure to the coronavirus.
However, fatigue has “often been deemed a factor in accidents at nuclear plants,” so this is definitely a concern.
In recent days, U.S. nuclear plants “are reporting some of the first coronavirus cases among their workers.”
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would “consider on a plant-by-plant basis 60-day exemptions that would let plants keep workers on the job for up to 86 hours in a seven-day period.”
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group, however, says this solution to preventing COVID-19 in nuclear workers, by making them work 14 12-hour days in a row, is “untenable.”
Nuclear plants are also considering bringing back former plant operators, and perhaps “sequestering crews on site.”
If things get worse, sequestering crews “remained one of the options.”
That would probably not be much different from what some of the refineries do when strikes occur, the senior management starts working long shifts to keep the plants going.
We will wait and see what happens with the coronavirus, and we hope nuclear workers don’t get so tired, accidents occur.(Associated Press, Sunday, April 5, 2020.)
Putting the puzzle together
Someone I know posted this and filled in a gap on the drug. Still be interested in knowing who owns shares of J& J who expects to have a vaccine by Sept.Now hows has that possible? They’re finally coming out on the bio lab.
Vaccines have not worked for the common cold
what makes them think ..this time,its different ? Prove it to me ,You take it first !
Do a 500 case study with 500 Democrats …and dont fudge the results…
Virus Never Sleeps
HAWAII VIRUS STATS FROM HDOH:
Total cases: 620 (1 newly reported)
Hawai’i County: 73
Honolulu County: 400
Kaua’i County: 21
Maui County: 117*
Pending: 0
Residents diagnosed outside of Hawai‘i: 9
Required Hospitalization: 72†
Hawaii deaths: 16
Released from Isolation: 541
Cumulative totals as of 12:00pm, May 2, 2020
One new case on Maui.
Maya, Tree Frog
Being in the medical field so long I’m more interested at this point the number of actual not assumed or substandard tests of infected with the serious form and how many survived.
Without actual treatment of antivirals anti inflammatory drugs all they got was palliative care. Stuck on a ventilator and maybe given antibiotics to treat a possible secondary infection from the pneumonia like symptoms from the cytokine storm and not treating the cytokine storm which you can die from by itself.
Supportive palliative care is all they got of basic needs without treatment for cause and effect except by a few pioneers doctors initially. Status quo, no new thinking or questions protocols and if they did they were conspiracy theorists while waiting for a quick fix vaccine. It all sounded more like a commercial for vaccines and dictators further infringement on people’s rights instead of saving lives, in the guise of saving lives.
treefrog @ 18:19
But you are missing a very important number in that calculation…. what was the TOTAL number of infected… and then what part of that number is the 1364 that died. That will give you the mortality rate of those who catch the infection.
Comparing the infected to the state’s total population ( if large) will tell how good a job y’all are doing at not sharing bodily fluids! 🙂
sales job.
florida’s population is 21.5 million.
the state dept. of health tells us that so far 1,364 of us have died of CV-19.
my calculator tells me that’s one in more than fifteen thousand, or 0.006 percent.
ladies and gentlemen, i think we’ve been sold a load of bullsh*t.
Maya
No matter how blessed a place is by nature the politicians can turn it to crap!
Argentina had some of the highest living standards in the world in the 1910’s and 20’s … and then turned left.
ipso facto @ 9:33
Back in the late 60’s I knew an Argentine gentleman in my small midwestern hometown. He was incredibly smart and talented, and spoke perfect English. He was a dentist, played classical piano, and was an extra class amateur radio operator where I knew him from the club. I once asked him why he left Argentina. “The political class are idiots!” was his reply. Some things never change, it seems.
Maya @ 22:11 re: Argentina
Gonna be some cryin by mining investors if they start nationalizing mines! I don’t trust that place at all. How many times have they defaulted on their debt? Mucho!
Cheers
You T/A Guys
So did yesterday’s close negate/change the potential downtrend on the weekly?
Pretty good day, although silver struggled a bit.
Ipso
“Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” 🙂
Peachy
Argentina’s government floats the nationalization of its mining industry
It was only a matter of time. Argentina’s Environment Minister Juan Cabandié in the house (translated):
“I don’t agree with mega-mining, but at the same time I understand that even the chairs on which we’re sitting today have mineral origins. Therefore, what we have to change is the way in which we do mining. If we had a robust State mining company, we would be able to control the means so that it doesn’t leave environmental health hazards.
“But I have an Australian or Canadian mining company that comes for 10 years, extracts according to its agreement and other things, we get tax revenue from a simple declaration of mine gate output. They leave me environmental hazards and pollute the water. This is where I agree with many people, that water is more important and gold.
“We enter into a contradiction: Many of the things we have are of mineral origin. The discussion we we need to have is that the mega-mines affect us all; some make profits and remit out the country, others generate very low tax revenues in relation to their margins. If we had a State mining company, all this would be different.”
Expect to hear a lot more on this subject as 2020 rolls out in Argentina. A lot of people up North seem to forget the country elected a left wing government last year. They get the rude awakening, IKN readers will be prepared.
https://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2020/05/argentinas-government-floats.html
Hawaii Virus Stats
Total cases: 619 (1 newly reported)
Hawai’i County: 73
Honolulu County: 400
Kaua’i County: 21
Maui County: 116*
Pending: 0
Residents diagnosed outside of Hawai‘i: 9
Required Hospitalization: 72†
Hawaii deaths: 16
Released from Isolation: 532
Cumulative totals as of 12:00pm, May 1, 2020
One new case in Honolulu. Governor extended ‘Stay at Home’ orders thru May 31, so we got another month of this.
Endured a horrid trip to Walmart yesterday… waiting in lines to get in… typical Walmart shoppers ignoring ‘distance’ guidelines and shoving past everyone in aisles that are marked and supposed to be ‘One Way’ to facilitate distance. Toilet Paper is limited but available now. Main thing I scored was antiseptic wipes. Still no Lysol spray to be found. No Tylenol or acetaminophen products, and no Vitamin C anywhere.
Richard640 @ 8:57
Happy fishing Up Nort’ in Minoqua. It’s still unofficially winter up there yet. Just two weeks ago they had snow. You know the four seasons in Wisconsin are:
June, July, August, and… Winter.
Jack in the Box
Kim Jong-un appears in public, North Korean state media report
KCNA news agency reports that the North Korean leader cut the ribbon at the opening of a fertiliser factory.
It adds that people at the factory “broke into thunderous cheers of hurrah” when he appeared.
The reported appearance – his first since a state media event on 12 April – comes amid global speculation over his health.
Mr Kim was accompanied by several senior North Korean officials, including his sister Kim Yo Jong, KCNA added.
The latest reports from state media could not be independently confirmed and no pictures were provided.
Asked about Mr Kim’s reported reappearance, US President Donald Trump told reporters that he didn’t want to comment yet.