quote Originally posted by Fats: Exactly, it took away people's ability to know about risks nearby. I wonder what they covered up when they changed it.

It 'took it away' for the simple fact that as more and more new localities had new infections, they all overlapped and it was nearly impossible anyway to determine one red circle from another. It's the reason there is just one big red circle over the Houston or Texas area now, instead of one for Houston, another for Harris County, another for Fort Bend County and another for Montgomery County another for San Antonio etc. As Mark said, you can still 'zoom in' for each area and get a more detailed look at each area, but for 'the big map' it was just no longer feasible to show all the infections individually.

Of course, if one is a conspiracy theorist, there is nothing that is going to sway those flat Earther knuckle draggers to believe otherwise, but for the rest of us, the changes make perfect sense.

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quote Originally posted by MadMark: Yep, Rinse. Once again a bunch of hoooie. The stock market opened up today, up about 800 points on the Dow. Even with all the hate and scare mongering of the left and the media we are in a much better place than we would have ever been with Hillary in office. Or in a few short months when Trump is reelected we will be doing great. The only ones contributing to the uncertainty is the Left and the Media. Its as if you guys don't care about the little people you are hurting with your destructive agenda.

Pareidolia

That's always something to think about, in terms of the ups and downs of the stock market, and what various people have to say about it.

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An altocumulus cloud that resembles a human hand. [Credit: Manchester Astronomical Society, via the Times of London.]


Discussion topics (or "threads") are like stage plays, and prior to this moment, my last appearance on stage was back on Page 15, when I uttered some "lines" that connected the U.S. stock market's large retreat on Monday with what I described as investors being "spooked" by the unknowns or uncertainties (the word I used) of the corona virus situation. On Tuesday, while I was offstage, the stock market advanced and regained some of the ground that was lost on Monday.

quote Originally posted by rinselberg: The stock markets are "spooked" by uncertainty. New vaccines to protect against Covid-19? Not anytime soon. Tamaflu (Tamiflu) and a few other drugs have some anti-viral effectiveness against the common influenza strains, but not Covid-19. When will there be any such drug(s)? Currently, unknown. President Trump has speculated that Covid-19 could be seasonal, like the common influenza strains, coming on strong as autumn turns to winter and then largely disappearing as spring gives way to summer, but that's just speculation. More uncertainty: Russia and Saudi Arabia are now at odds about oil and natural gas production, and U.S. oil and gas producers look like they are going to be damaged if the Saudis carry through with a stated intention of flooding world export markets and driving down the price of oil. The Trump administration has either purposely or inadvertently contributed to the uncertainty that is roiling the stock markets by stumbling and slow-walking the rollout of Covid-19 testing across the United States. The stock markets can recover, but the Stable Genius of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (NW), Washington D.C. needs to start showing a steadier "hand." Showing up at a Center for Disease Control press event and sporting a conspicuously incongruent campaign prop--that "Keep America Great" or KAG cap--and then spewing nonsense in front of microphones ... that's not a Presidential communications strategy for improving investor confidence.

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What are the likely (or at least possible) elements of Pareidolia that would explain (or at least partly explain) the lines that were given to the "rinselberg" character at that moment, when he was last onstage?

The very title of this play, in and of itself, invokes the corona virus, so it is to be expected that the "rinselberg" character would have had that in the front of his mind when he came onstage (back on Page 15) to talk about the stock market.

quote Hudini...from your unique perspective, thoughts on the new Chinese corona virus(?)

That was on Monday, and there had been, on the Friday before (I think it was Friday), a public appearance by President Trump at the Center for Disease Control or "CDC" in a corona virus-related context, and so that also became part of the dialogue, in the lines that were given to my ("rinselberg") character.

Monday also came with remarks on the MSNBC television channel about developments attending the world's oil and natural gas supplies and pricing ("Russia"; "Saudi Arabia") and part of the background that audience members bring (or could bring) to these plays is that the "rinselberg" character is attuned to daily news reports from venues like NBC News(.com) and MSNBC, and can be visualized as reading from the NBC News(.com) website or viewing the MSNBC television channel when his character is offstage.

So there were the elements of a Pareidolia that could be conjectured, on the part of the "rinselberg" character, when we consider his lines about the stock market.

But what about these lines, from the "olejoedad" character of this play?

quote Never let a crisis go to waste. Crash the supply chain, wreck the economy, get Trump defeated, get rid of tarriffs....... Make it all back in six months...

Those were the lines that preceded my character's previous appearance on stage, and set the context for that appearance.

Is that Reality... or Pareidolia?

Can anyone be expected to definitively resolve that dichotomy, given the complexity of the stock market that we have today, which is shaped not only by the decisions of human investors, but also by trading algorithms?

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