Trump was taking credit for the DOW.
Did you admonish that behavior when the DOW was up?
If you did please post the link.
If you didn't, why didn't you?
No sir. Not worth the effort. He deserves the up credit because he created a more business-friendly situation than Obama did. Obama and the progressive globalists have been working on suppressing the American economy, and building up China, for decades, encouraging export of high-paying jobs to cheap labor markets, to the benefit of non-American Corporate endtities, which our insider class of globalist corporate interests have invested in overseas. Trump has been making the playing field more competitive for American-located production, bringing jobs back here.
American workers are about 10X in productivity per employee than almost any other place. Skill, equipment, experience, work ethic culture. A Chinese yogurt plant would use less productive investment in machinery and a lot more little workers trying to make yogurt in little batches.
I do believe Trump ought to crow less, and I fully recognize that a correction is usual after a run up in the markets, and long overdue.
But this "correction" has a rational, realistic basis in impacts froim a developing pandemic, though I expect the fear projections right now can and should be met with a very successful response in developing a vaccine, and in public measures like aggressive testing and all kinds of behavioral and managerial effective measures like encouraging sniffly employees to stay home a few days, travel restrictions, quarantines.
I think Trump began appropriate responses early in January, and that the measures have helped. I believe we have good hope for an effective vaccine available with two to three months.
I think realistically, this will be a pandemic with over 40% of the world population being affected. Mortality rates will be higher in undeveloped areas with less health care infrastructure. It looks like CoViD-19 is over 100X ordinary flue in transmissability, and in mortality rate as well. So I expect the death toll could go into the millions worldwide.
Still, I think my little protocol for personal protection is as effective as any vaccine we will produce. Masks will be in short supply, but we can attack the transmission vectors with bleach fumes, chlorine and ozone, or uv lights, which will directly destroy the virus in the air, or in the upper respiratory track. And in fact, if it goes to the lungs, where is causes cell death in the lining tissues and enables opportunistic secondary infections and sepsis or toxic shock capable of causing lethal organ failures, I think there is a safe dose of chlorine that will kill the virus in the lung surfaces without significant additional damage to lung tissues.....But I'm not the doctor.
I use bleach almost daily in my work, and have done so for years. I never get the flu shots, and I haven't had the flu in years. Even when the rest of the family is down with it. Sometimes I use too much bleach in my routine, enough to send the uninitiated running for fresh air, enough I smell like it for hours after, or until I take a bath. But it is the active ingredient in effective disinfectants, and I use it for its antiviral potency in my job.
So, the fact that nobody listens to me is a bit disheartening, but the standard protocols are also going to be effective. The morbid effects of serious pneumonia will largely be the result of people not having the information, the masks, the sense to wash hands or disinfect their personal space, or the ability to just stay home, or the health care and vaccinations. Africa and Brazil, India and the Middle East, will be affected more than east Asia, where the health care and education is better. And God save North Korea, which has a large migratory work force in China and a lot of back and forth movement. And no serious health infrastructure.
