Too many if even one non-Muslim was killed. The LGBTI issue - I am so old I don't even know what all the letters are for - is important because to track we need good information. Korea is excellent at tracking down who is infected but the people left false names. When people lie on the forms, we are all in trouble. Tracking does reduce the number of people infected in the future, but it must be accurate. Just wait until we really try to track in the US. As usual everyone will want everyone else to be tracked but they will not want to be tracked themselves. DLS

Exactly, can we focus on real issues. All this preemptive worrying about potential LGBT victims is a waste of time, in my perspective no one really could care less about LGBT people, and just want them to get on with their lives peacefully, without being attacked, and without making a big fuss. There are real issues around the world such as real humanitarian atrocities in China and Africa for example. South Korea and the US are probably the two of the countries in which we need to be least concerned.

Matthew R. - It is about the tracking not the LGBTI issue. DLS

yeah, I wouldn't call NZ lamb inferior necessarily...

It is a good-looking shirt. It is a well-made update of the old Madras shirts from India of the 60s. Madras material was guaranteed to fade and bleed each time it was washed. What a great marketing promotion. This shirt has a different fabric inside and around the neck like a Burberry. In the old days when you soiled the inside of the collar, they would sew another fabric to cover up the soiled area to save the shirt. Burberry has used this as an upscale marketing promotion to identify their shirts – so it may be a Burberry. Normally Burberry uses a plaid, but this shirt is plaid so solid fits. Fun to think of something else other than the recession and COVID-19. Thanks. DLS

Quite a hypnotic shirt. Trippy.

Agreed! And love the long term view.

...#COYG

#COYS

Great update. Thanks, DLS

You can’t repay dead people.

In Canada (according to data as at May 21st) 69% of Covid-19 fatalities were > 80 & 95% were > 60 yrs of age. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/surv-covid19-epi-update-eng.pdf

Ok, and what is the point? The obsession with “but the death rate is low” is practically “it’s just the flu”, when it comes to the extreme lack of nuance and consequences following such a blunt conclusion.

Derrick R.: "You can't repay dead people" . Such hyperbole. It's statements like that which prevent people from thinking rationally about this and keep them in a state of fear. The data points to this being much less severe than the flu for the overwhelming majority of people. This doesn't lesson the impact on those who die or their families. It's just a statement based on data. And how many people over the age of 60 are still in the workforce? Isn't it cheaper to pay them to stay home and quarantine than to shut down everything and everyone? Don't submit to fear.

Maybe not in your world, but people over 60 are in contact with people of other ages in most families and social circles. Maybe we should just put people over 60 in jail to save them?

@Mark T., looking at one statistic in the data (and as most of us know the data itself is fraught with issues) I think is not enough to capture the most likely outcome, in this case. Here's why: Forget about the death rate altogether. Pretend it kills nobody, and leave everything else about it unchanged. We'll also assume for simplicity that everyone lives alone (no mixed age households) and keep it focused on workers. We'll also assume no mutations of the virus occur that make it even worse, or more contagious than it is now. Finally we assume that a recovered patient is just as healthy as one who hasn't had the virus (this is largely not true, mostly as yet unknown, but very interesting should you look into that further) According to BLS data the median working age in the US is 42. What percentage of cases across the working age population require hospitalization? ICU? Have you looked at THOSE numbers? Do you realize how many people in the US in working age range are on medications for various conditions and are overweight and/or diabetic? Do you realize how ill-equipped the US medical system is to handle this? What percentage will miss work.... at the same time as this spreads through their social networks? What hospital capacity do we have? What risk is this load presenting to the health of the medical staff? Who is going to replace them when they get sick and can't continue working..... as more cases flood in? Beds, supplies, ventilators? Who pays the physical and monetary costs for the care? What does this strain on the system do to other patients? "Reopen because it doesn't kill everyone without one foot already in the grave" is a myth as well as a dangerously simplistic view. Productivity at scale is not recovering just because we decide we will reopen anyway. The above reasoning is why I remain skeptical of a near term full recovery. I see this simply lingering and doing damage for a longer term, in so many scenarios. A solution will eventually be teased out, but it will take time and will come in pieces and parts, not all at once. That's my view.

I see what your saying but capacity utilization is so low that supply holes could be filled quickly. The likeliest form of inflation will be from dollar devaluing not supply/demand IMO.