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[xxxxxy] 10/3/2020 13:32

Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 10/3/2020 13:30

RBS offers three-month mortgage holiday to coronavirus victimsRival banks under pressure to follow Royal Bank of Scotland's move to help borrowers affected by the virus

[pierre oreilly] 10/3/2020 13:23

Well I just eat a tuna sandwich.

I still look reasonably human, and not at all like a tuna sandwich.

[maxidi] 10/3/2020 13:17

You are what you eat!

Hippocrates "food is your medicine"...

[pierre oreilly] 10/3/2020 13:13

Forget all those cures and magic effects.

I've been on a tour of the Aloe Vera farms. They (seriously) told us the list of things aloe vera cures - was quite comprehensive, and took the aloe vera grower a long long time to list them all out. I think it was every illness and every condition known to man. I was expecting him to say if you lose a leg, rub some of his jelly in and it will regrow. Sure beats garlic or onion juice.

[maxidi] 10/3/2020 13:12

Oh! nearly forgot, plenty of red wine..... :o)

[minerve 2] 10/3/2020 13:10

Hey, doc, do you think we should give this patient who is now bad with pneumonia some anti-virals?

Nah, cut up an onion and feed it to 'em!

ROFLMAO!

[maxidi] 10/3/2020 13:08

The quercetin is the thing in onions that has the power to fight all ills. You can buy
it in tablet form but it's expensive and not as good as the juice of fresh onion. Of course you have to have a juicing machine!
You must mix the juice with honey or fruit so it doesn't burn the throat.

[pierre oreilly] 10/3/2020 13:06

To keep coro at bay

Take lots of vit c

Take lots of vit d

Avoid any e numbers.

[minerve 2] 10/3/2020 13:00

Go for it guys!

[gotnorolex] 10/3/2020 12:54

Garlic lovers spread it fastest!

[bargainbob] 10/3/2020 12:37

The french should be safe k38

[k38] 10/3/2020 12:31

MinThe virus definitely slow you down... Start eating onions, lol

[crossing_the_rubicon] 10/3/2020 12:24

To those that trust the Chinese figures despite numerous evidence to the contrary that they're massaging them, there's also this.

9th Mar'20:-"Covid-19 & China's war on the truth"
"The Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large", wrote the noted historian Victor Davis Hanson on February 20.

According to The Sunday Times,
"Chinese laboratories identified a mystery virus as a highly infectious new pathogen by late December last year, but they were ordered to stop tests, destroy samples and suppress the news, a Chinese media outlet has revealed.

"A regional health official in Wuhan, centre of the outbreak, demanded the destruction of the lab samples that established the cause of unexplained viral pneumonia on January 1. China did not acknowledge there was human-to-human transmission until more than three weeks later.

"The detailed revelations by Caixin Global, a respected independent publication, provide the clearest evidence yet of the scale of the cover-up in the crucial early weeks when the opportunity was lost to control the outbreak."

[ekuuleus] 10/3/2020 12:24

agree. I think US will bounce. When UK reopens tomorrow to react to US's bounce. Harder to read Thu.

Will probably be still responding to Wed USA close so can reassess thu morning whether to close long or continue. Also corona updates.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 10/3/2020 12:24

@Guns...

Apparently a "Zinc" deficiency makes one more susceptible as well...but taking immune boosters such as Vit C/D a superb idea.

[alphorn] 10/3/2020 12:21

wends - your last sentence slightly strange. Is that your opinion or straight out of the Express? ;)))

[essentialinvestor] 10/3/2020 12:15

Bounces with these type of market falls are often 1-2 days in duration -
unless the correction is over, which would be a big call to make.

And of course we could be in an early stage wider bear market.

[poikka] 10/3/2020 12:12

More evidence of the lethargic EU as the UK writes to the EU Commission to get them to temporarily relax the landing slot rules that mean airlines forfeit any slots that they don't use.

So we have aircraft flying nearly empty, because of the virus, and contributing to global warming because the airlines don't want to lose their slots. Meanwhile, the EU bureaucrats wine and dine and discuss and plot...

[ekuuleus] 10/3/2020 12:12

I'm expecting USA to bounce and that will give us a slight further bounce. Bit more tomorrow subject to review this afternoon. No idea thur at the moment.

[ekuuleus] 10/3/2020 12:10

have a look at suk2. I did a dummy trade on Fri for £200,000 and got quoted a price. Will probably use more. Trying to trade shares really hard work. The metro shares I could only sell at £5,000 a pop which takes bloody ages. That was at 160 when the market was stable...

[poikka] 10/3/2020 12:07

From the NHS

"Because of its symptoms and spread, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (called coronavirus from now on), which causes COVID-19, is being compared to the annual flu virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that flu kills between 290,000 to 650,000 people each year worldwide. Some years have been even more devastating, such as the 1918 epidemic, which affected around half of the world's population and killed 40-50 million globally.

In terms of proportions rather than number of deaths, COVID-19 seems to be deadlier than the annual flu. The flu is cited by experts as having a death rate of around 0.1%. The UK government estimates that the death rate for COVID-19 is around 2% or less: other researchers put the figure at around 1%.

But COVID-19 isn't a death sentence. Around 80% of cases are mild and only a small proportion will have serious or severe infections. Interestingly, a new research paper suggests that even a 1% estimate of mortality may be a significant overestimate, on the basis that many people have such mild infection that they're never diagnosed and included in the figures.

Coronavirus has a higher basic reproduction number (the number of people each individual will infect). For coronavirus, each case will cause an average of 2.2 cases, compared to 1.3 for flu.

The concerning difference between flu and coronavirus is that this is a new virus. We don't yet know how to treat it, which medications might be effective or the long-term implications. And there isn't a vaccine yet available. Even though there are thousands of cases of flu each year in the UK, a huge number of cases are prevented by the flu vaccine. The vaccine also prevents more serious cases of flu and protects vulnerable groups who may otherwise die from flu."

[wendsworth] 10/3/2020 11:57

mitchy : I hope you took my advice ( post 7187) . I was VERY tempted to short the FTSE
pm last Friday but my broker 'talked me out of it'. In the end, the potential of such violent swings led me to conclude that I didn't fancy being screwed ...with the indices trading at all hours! As for Lloyds ...try to resist the 'itchy finger over the mouse'! I've been suckered in before on 'dead cat bounces'. Just concentrate on the TREND.You can always buy if you're in CASH! I question the philosophy that the banks aren't going to be affected . Who knows where the debts are ????? Some EU banks were reported as 'holding on with their finger nails' prior to 'Corona' . One little glimmer is that apparently EU tariff exit talks are proving to be far more constructive than anticipated. 'Corona' has injected some realism in our competitors across the channel ..it would appear?