Musclecar prices and the possible recession

[69LM1]

Originally Posted by Late BrakeU2

Kung Flu rate of mortailty .5%

Ebola virus was 70%

The fact the Kung Flu is spreading worldwide tells you it's mild, where as Ebola never left the continent because it generally killed most folks who got it, regardless of age.

China is already through the peak of it, and getting back to producing I Phones.

As the weather gets warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, it's going to fade away.

Respective to muscle car valuations, i'd be more concerned with millenials not being in to cars in general than a virus.

Speaking of China and Kung Flu, anyone else just slightly curious to know why quite a few of the high ranking officials in Iran were the first to contract it outside of mainland China?

Exactly... Shows that there was a significant connection between the two with several overlaps. Very interesting indeed and not many people talking about that as well.

/Rich

[Tommy]

I wonder how many will attend car shows and swap meets this spring or if they will get cancelled. If everyone stays home in the garage, next season will be sure to bring out some nice finished projects or some really clean detailed hotrods! If this thing continues and I don't get jammed up because of media reactions or actual real deal problems, I should get caught on up everything I ever wanted to do around the house and in the garage. I do hope everyone stays healthy and we can look back later and Thank the Lord for seeing us through financially and health wise.

Tommy

[Mr70]

This starts tomorrow & will be a good litmus test.https://www.mecum.com/
Mecum has reserves,so it'll be interesting to see if enough people show up to get past those reserve prices.

[Lee Stewart]

New York State Setting Up 1-Mile Coronavirus Containment Zone With National Guard

The state of New York is setting up a special coronavirus containment zone in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County with the help of the National Guard, according to a press conference with state officials on Tuesday afternoon.

Westchester, which currently has 108 cases and is just north of New York City, became one of the worst hotspots in the country after a Manhattan lawyer who lives in the county was infected with COVID-19. His wife, two children, and the neighbor who drove him to the hospital also contracted the disease.

https://gizmodo.com/new-york-to-set-...new-1842241803

[the427king]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24...ama/index.html

H1n1 declared a pandemic in April 2009 ,yet declared an emergency 5 months later only after millions already infected,20000 hospitalized and over 1000 dead, and that was just counting the United States. Heres the best part. From the start of the pandemic to its finish, the stock market in 2009 INCREASED by 40%.................No bad media means no hysteria

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by the427king

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24...ama/index.html

H1n1 declared a pandemic in April 2009 ,yet declared an emergency 5 months later only after millions already infected,20000 hospitalized and over 1000 dead, and that was just counting the United States. Heres the best part. From the start of the pandemic to its finish, the stock market in 2009 INCREASED by 40%.................No bad media means no hysteria

CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.

That is a very low mortality rate. And it was only 5 months after the pandemic started that a vaccine was found,

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...-pandemic.html

[Lee Stewart]

The latest stats are:

119,176 cases

4,295 deaths

[tom406]

I would hope everyone interested in this virus situation do your own homework. In Seattle, life is currently quite different. To give you an idea of how much less people are going out right now, my wife drove home from work yesterday going through downtown at 5pm GOING THE SPEED LIMIT. Not saying that to be funny-I can't remember being able to do that on a work day in 20 years.

My wife is in the medical field, and has some doctor friends keeping tabs. She showed me the postings of a couple of doctors on the ground in Northern Italy. This is a well developed and supported part of the country. The thought was they downplayed the risks and it spread suddenly and quickly to the population. Though the percentages of people with bad reactions probably wasn't out of line with previous viruses, they all got sick at the same time and overloaded the hospitals and ER's, to the point where they're not doing elective procedures because they're trying to keep the ER afloat. The ventilators needed to keep folks alive are getting to be in short supply, so some of the hospitals are having to prioritize who gets them. If you have a pre morbidity or are into retirement age, they're going to prioritize otherwise healthy or younger people ahead of you-they're simply a better bet given the odds. This is what is feared by the other countries in Europe, and here as well.
Let's say this bug just takes out a good, quick number of the gray haired and infirm among us. That's pretty much the population every Goodguys, NCRS, and car club meeting I've been to in the last few years. Who's interested in being the one who brings the bug to your club, or your parents? Nobody here wants to die, but nobody REALLY wants to be Typhoid Mary of the Northwest, either.
I may be sensitive being in the eye of the storm here, but until you start seeing the fear and empty streets and stores, I don't think you're quite getting it.

[Zedder]

Good luck with things Tom. We were a hot spot for SARS in 2003 and have about 30 cases of Covid-19 currently, so I completely understand where you are coming from. Some of the comments here are absolutely mind boggling. No one has immunity to this virus nor can the vulnerable get a vaccine to help protect them. Given that, a mortality rate 30 times higher than influenza and a much higher rate of transmission, I can’t understand how anyone would think it is nothing to be concerned with (unless you live in the boonies and don’t visit medical centers).

[the427king]

I sure wouldnt want to have to fly or be in large groups of people right now. Fortunately I dont have to do either . I have family members in New Rochelle and that area is said to be the biggest cluster of cases currently in the US.