[everyone should] have the compassion to not wish DEATH on a political enemy. [People who do] are pathetic and should be ashamed.
I made some edits to reflect the horribly uncivilized rhetoric that has become endemic in much political discourse over the last few years, from many sides.
The only purified plasma currently available, I think, is from China. They already included some quantity in their A350 load of supplies and people that just arrived in Italy. Now that China has >50,000 recovered cases they probably have fairly plentiful plasma. That should by hugely beneficial to countries that don't object to learning from China.
If it is true that Trump has decreed that no medically important products/components are to be sourced outside the US that will preclude testing speed advances from Roche, testing components from Germany as well as all the very considerable knowledge China has gained at such an astronomic price.
The world is beginning to pay prices for jingoism and isolationism. We must ardently hope that we do not endure similar consequences to those of Smoot-Hawley. That one happened more than a decades after the end of the flu epidemic that began in 1918. This time we have both catastrophic conditions simultaneously. We also have US deficits that were the largest ever, even with a long running boom. Now the third rail is deficits that will be astoundingly high (nobody yet knows how much tax income the US will forego). Three coincident catastrophic events would be nearly unmanageable with a smooth running globally cooperative set of governments.
Somehow I will stand by TSLA because it will manage this disarray less poorly that will others. Otherwise I am now 100% defensive and have eliminated all speculative investments. In spectacular luck none of that ended out with losses. Without question I forewent huge unrealized gains.
I would been less pessimistic were there not so many coincident disasters. It's not just the US in meltdown, now there are fundamental political challenges in every major world economic power. The populists have successfully destroyed the power of most hard-won global institutions including the WHO,World Bank, IMF and UN, and many others. Even OPEC has lost its way.
Sorry to feel so hopeless. The last time I felt like this was in the midst of a civil war (Lebanon 1975) but then the whole world was anxious to preclude global disaster, and people who had known WWII were still forces for calm. Now we have world 'leaders' competing to be less civil than each other.
Not enough coffee.
