Sometimes perspective helps. The DOW was at 18,847 on 11.7.2016 and had risen to 20,093 by 1.23.17. It reached a peak of 29,398 before the virus hit. It is currently around 24,302 as I write this. The DOW rose 10,581 since election day and is still 5,455 ahead of where it was on 11.7.2016. It is still up more than it is down today from the peak.

I posted this on FB earlier in the week.

I've never heard of a virus as infectious with such dire consequences for so many.

I can understand the concern (I'm old enough to qualify for the early hours).

My counter to the wear-a-mask hysteria:  the general public is completely ignorant with respect to the proper method to wear a mask and the necessary hand discipline to make a mask effective.

The N95 mask (which we are told should be reserved for medical professionals) is the only mask that provides better than 60% filtering effectiveness (it is something like 97%).  Other masks provide some filtering for inhalation and much much less filtration for exhalation.  In other words, they leak and leak badly.

For kicks and giggles, watch people who wear a mask.  Look at the number of people that leave the nose exposed, look at the number of people who pull the mask down and then put it back, look at the number of people who touch their face and/or mask... repeatedly.  All of these actions greatly reduce the already low low low effectiveness of wearing masks in public.

Requiring people to wear pink running shoes would be just about as effective.

Is that an indication that you think that they're being censored by some form of government agency?

I hope being royally pissed enhances the immune system.

Dude, we don't need a depression to unseat Trump. All that's needed this time around is to run a Trump vs. Trump campaign.

Show Trump side by side saying one thing on one date vs. another thing on another date, constantly contradicting himself. Ad after ad after ad.

We can run a barely alive democrat and still do this. Which frankly, we seem to be doing...