Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[jfmcrr]

jfmc@ I congratulate you . that you lived through HIV -

Perhaps I wasn't clear.

The post was about fear of the unknown. I got five units of blood at a time when the virus was later known to exist in the blood supply but years before it was identified, and additional years before a test was developed. To my knowledge, only a couple of individuals survived during the early years. It was a death sentence and I had acquired a wife and kid before knowledge of the virus and the prevalence in the blood supply was public knowledge and years after I'd been transfused. I never contracted the virus and even during the very worst year of prevalence in the blood supply, the best estimate was 1 in 100 units of blood were infected. And my transfusions occurred within the coupla months either way that the virus was believed to first appear in the blood supply. In hindsight, the actual risk was probably one in a gazillion. Still the fear of the unknown and the possible infection of my wife and one of my kids was a heavy burden for years. Now, not at all. Much is known today and how to prevent and treat the disease, yet the earliest reactions still reverberates through the system.

You can rail against the weather but it doesn't care. It wreaks havoc or not. Neither does fear of the unknown care. The wife is going through a serious health issue and I've been really busy for the last 24 hours, but a recent Costco run and listening to the car radio during the trip about possible official decisions to televise sports from empty stadiums, which I had written about earlier, confirms my expectations.
Back inna day I walked the steel and raced motorcycles . I can and have dealt with risk. I've noted that others are less sanguine, especially when it's almost certain you will be exposed to the risk through no choice of your own. I'm unmargined, levered through Calls, and hunkered down for the moment. The good ship AMRN floats on the ocean of the markets and the economy, and perceptions and expectations matter first and most.