ajtj99's Market Pulse

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OT on your flu watch.

Bush Cheney would love the bird flu mutation pandemic. It would save tons and tons of #7 buckshot pellets.

Think of the massive reductions in medicare and social security liabilities that no spreadsheet scenario could calculate if morbidity rates were high and course of global infection lasted just a few weeks. Private life insurance insurance companies would take an upfront hit but would raise rates through the roof going forward.

Iraqis, Iranians, North Koreans, numerous South American, Central Americans Caribbean countries under the influence of leftist despots would suffer a disordinate number of fatalities since chicken and ducks would still be a vector of infection and these countries contain a high percentages of subsistence farmers where the children tend fowl like family pets. In Turkey, I think all the victims were young children who tended chickens and ducks. News commentators described how they cradedl the dead anaimals and held them close and kissed the dead chickens on the head.