Anyone loading up on 3M Company stock? They are the ones that make most of those masks everyone is wearing.
So we're just gonna assume 100% contagion? Hey guise, the bubonic plague killed half a billion people and we've learned nothing since, so we're ALL getting Wuhan!
The best part is that those masks do nothing. The virus spreads through contact with mucous membranes. So unless you plan on installing a decon shower and wearing a full BSL suit to work everyday you may as well not use one. Moreover, it's infectious before signs start showing, has a high probability of mutation given the total number of people infected, and is airborne. I saw a guy at the local grocer stocking up on masks. I didn't have the heart to tell him that first, the masks he had were for non-infectious use, and second the virus spreads through any mucous membrane and is capable of living for quite a long time (relatively speaking) on surfaces. Short hospitality, travel, etc stocks. Give it until next earnings season and we'll see the actual damage.
I am in Asia and EVERYONE is wearing these right now. Specially in malls that a lot of Chinese go to. Its pollution season here so they are in high demand as it is but normally you see maybe 50% of people in masks, now its close to 80%. My brother told me in Toronto they are completely sold out at the moment. These masks are probably a small part of the 3M business but they do also make a lot of hazmat stuff and I'm sure hospitals around the world are stocking up. The chart is in a sell off but I think 155 would be a good level to load up. Next earnings will be a surprise beat for sure.
Its the dry summer season here so there is a lot of natural and man made forest fires around South East Asia. The PM 2.5 particles rise to dangerous levels and most people wear the masks and have air filters running in their homes.
besides the mouth & nose what other mucous membranes you got exposed? The eyes? I sure as hell don't have my genitals out in public
Ok then you should like fígaro. There is also a video of a Chinese singer on this song who actually did the whole thing without any computer synthesis.
G'damn it China, stop eating well known infectious vectors and just buy Viagra like every one else in the 21st century. Animals sold for food are suspected to be the reservoir or the intermediary because many of the first identified infected individuals were workers at the Huanan Seafood Market. Consequently, they were exposed to greater contact with animals.[30] A market selling live animals for food was also blamed in the SARS epidemic in 2003; such markets are considered to be incubators for novel pathogens.[46] The outbreak has prompted a temporary ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals in China.[47] However, some researchers have suggested that the Huanan Seafood Market may not be the original source of viral transmission to humans.[14][48] With a sufficient number of sequenced genomes, it is possible to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree of the mutation history of a family of viruses. During 17 years of research on the origin of the SARS 2003 epidemic, many SARS-like bat coronaviruses were isolated and sequenced, most of them originating from the Rhinolophus genus of bats. 2019-nCoV has been found to fall into this category of SARS-related coronaviruses. Two genome sequences from Rhinolophus sinicus published in 2015 and 2017 show a resemblance of 80% to 2019-nCoV.[11][12] A third unpublished virus genome from Rhinolophus affinis, "RaTG13", is said to have a 96% resemblance to 2019-nCoV.[49] For comparison, this amount of variation among viruses is similar to the amount of mutation observed over ten years in the H3N2 human flu virus strain.[50]