Who Benefits From Peak Corona Virus Panic?

[LUH 3417]

I always wonder who benefits from turning these days almost everything into a conspiracy. I mean someone ought to, these conspiracy theories don't just pop up randomly, there's got to be more to it we don't see.

The imagination benefits

 

[tankasnowgod]

Well, toilet paper companies and Costco seem to be benefiting, at least in the short run. But I somehow doubt that Charmin is behind the panic over SARS 2 (Electric Boogaloo).

One of the most overlooked possible beneficiaries has been the Chinese Government. The pollution in Wuhan has been notoriously bad, and Jon Rappaport did a good job laying out that air pollution might be the main cause of this "Epidemic."

What are the Chinese hiding in Wuhan? « Jon Rappoport's Blog
Wuhan and the polluted air as a cause of epidemic illness « Jon Rappoport's Blog

This virus is a perfect cover story. I'm also amazed at the more right wing pundit types who have been cheerleading these draconian efforts of the Chinese Government to control it's citizens. I guess a lot of those pundits aren't as pro-freedom or pro-individual as I may have thought.

The travel industry has also taken a hit, both from lockdowns within China, and just the general fear of people freaking out over this, and not wanting to travel. So, maybe look into people who shorted hotel/airline/casino stocks just before this hit.

Oh! And don't forget the Soybean Oil Industry! Remember the studies about Soybean Oil being directly causitive for obesity, diabetes, and brain and liver diseases? They were hitting the news around late January. All that negative coverage of Soybean Oil has been completely taken up with Corona Virus news instead.

America’s most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain
Dysregulation of Hypothalamic Gene Expression and the Oxytocinergic System by Soybean Oil Diets in Male Mice
America’s favorite oil causes diabetes, obesity, autism, and liver / brain disease – To Extract Knowledge from Matter

 

[Soren]

But again, Election years drive bigger ratings and revenue than trying to gin up fear about a cold and flu virus.

Cable news’ election-year haul could reach $2.5 billion
U.S. presidential election drives record ratings for cable news
TV Ratings: 71 Million Watched 2016 Election Returns Pour In; CNN and Fox News Set Records
Cable News Gears Up for a Presidential Election Ratings Bump

I don't think you'll find magazines like Adweek talking about how Corona Virus (or any of the other predicted epidemics that never panned out) were ratings blockbusters for news orgs, like a Presidential Election is. From that perspective, it's either a distraction, or a B or C level story.

Consider the $500 Million or so Mike Bloomberg spent on Ads. That was a massive revenue bump right there. What companies are dumping anywhere near that amount to advertise one way or another about Corona Virus?

True election years drive bigger ratings but the corona virus is being discussed in the media in the context of the election. The media definitely want to use in order to hurt trump. CNN already tried to call it the Trump Virus. Pretty much the entire establishment is praying that this causes a recession so that Trump gets kicked out of office. What they don't realise is it is likely to cause the opposite. I used to work as an independent trader in London and some of the people I worked with who have decades of experience are saying that this corona virus is setting up the market for a massive bull rally. All the actions that are being taken to protect the economy such as rate cuts, short term lifting of taxes etc, when in a few months the sky doesn't fall and people realise this is no way near as bad as everyone said we'll see a massive surge in the markets. Not saying low interest rates are good that's a whole other story just saying for purely a stock market bounce this could time perfectly for Trump and re-election.

To answer your question everyone who wants Trump to lose this year; Democrats, China, Russia, U.N and the EU they all benefit from this. Plus all these pharmaceutical companies racing to make a vaccine.

 

[LLight]

Northern Italy is now under lockdown.

There must be a link with US elections for sure.

 

[Max23]

True election years drive bigger ratings but the corona virus is being discussed in the media in the context of the election. The media definitely want to use in order to hurt trump. CNN already tried to call it the Trump Virus. Pretty much the entire establishment is praying that this causes a recession so that Trump gets kicked out of office. What they don't realise is it is likely to cause the opposite. I used to work as an independent trader in London and some of the people I worked with who have decades of experience are saying that this corona virus is setting up the market for a massive bull rally. All the actions that are being taken to protect the economy such as rate cuts, short term lifting of taxes etc, when in a few months the sky doesn't fall and people realise this is no way near as bad as everyone said we'll see a massive surge in the markets. Not saying low interest rates are good that's a whole other story just saying for purely a stock market bounce this could time perfectly for Trump and re-election.

To answer your question everyone who wants Trump to lose this year; Democrats, China, Russia, U.N and the EU they all benefit from this. Plus all these pharmaceutical companies racing to make a vaccine.

The P/E ratio of the S&P 500 is not very high also, meaning that stocks are not expensive right now. I also think that a bull rally is likely. During the admistation of Trump GDP growth of the USA has also been great. Under circumstances like that American presidents usually get re-elected. Not hoping for it in any way. Especially after just watching "When They See Us" on Netflix.

 

[Max23]

Corona beer company also benefits from this outbreak.

 

[Soren]

The P/E ratio of the S&P 500 is not very high also, meaning that stocks are not expensive right now. I also think that a bull rally is likely. During the admistation of Trump GDP growth of the USA has also been great. Under circumstances like that American presidents usually get re-elected. Not hoping for it in any way. Especially after just watching "When They See Us" on Netflix.

Unfortunately while Trump is better than Bernie or Biden. His spending policies are sending us to economic Armageddon. Low taxes good, low regulation mostly good (chemicals and in the environment different story) but spending like a drunken sailor like the Obama and Bush will collapse the economy at some point. Ironically it was Bill Clinton (who I am no fan of) who was the last president we had where spending was under control albeit largely because he had a republican congress. I like a lot of what he has done but the spending has just gotten even crazier. He might end up getting lucky because the rest of the world is so bad economically the US might be the last show in town so money and investment will continue to come here.

 

[animalcule]

"A broken clock is right twice a day." Say mainstream media is that clock.

I don't see this as a conspiracy. I see this as a bioweapon that escaped a lab in China. It is highly, highly contagious. Its case fatality rate is worse than the flu. The US is not prepared to provide even basic safety and protective equipment for healthcare workers, or to test widely. Containment is nearly impossible without quarantine. The only way that China has been able to contain the spread even a little is by imposing draconian measures on its citizens, forcing quarantines, and throwing anyone who is even suspected of coming into contact with a coronavirus victim into a building full of other quarantined and sick patients, and then just letting the virus burn through. They built a slew of hospitals in a short time, back when there was only a relative handful of cases. They knew something they weren't telling the rest of the world.

If this were just a typical virus rearing its head, sure, boost your immunity, do your best to stay healthy, don't panic. But this isn't a typical virus. I believe it is bioengineered, the Chinese knew this, fought to contain it, couldn't, and now the rest of the world will have to live with the consequences. There's no global conspiracy here, just hubris and stupidity.

 

[mostlylurking]

Please read this: All Hospital Beds In The US Will Be Filled With Patients 'By About May 8th' Due To Coronavirus: Analysis What if just maybe this thing got loose from a biowar lab by accident and nobody wins?

 

[TibRex]

They are panicking and I would say this time, to the middle or end of March, is Peak Corona Virus.

Who is benefiting from the incredible drumming this thing?

Perhaps the following article will answer your question!

This time I'm scared! Leading US health experts predicted Coronavirus outbreak could kill 65 million people in a year in chilling warning three months before Chinese Outbreak - Strange Sounds

 

[Nemo]

I don't understand where you're coming from. Is it not significantly more deadly than the flu?

It is not significantly more deadly than the flu. It only appeared to be because the only people getting tested for it were already in the hospital. All the mild cases that never even made it to a doctor weren't tested.

Look at the Diamond Princess sample. Thousands of mostly elderly people trapped on a cruise ship with an infected crew, yet less than a quarter of them tested positive and there have only been seven deaths.

And note the big change in the media's response to it. The initial response was to call Trump a racist for cutting off travel to Wuhan. Then the ruling class figured out they could terrify people with the pandemic narrative, and they switched their media mouthpieces to that.

I think the ruling class hoped to use it to influence the 2020 U.S. election and now Wall St. and Big Pharma are hoping to cash in (Wall St with an opportunity to buy into the market at a discount and Big Pharma with a vaccine, "treatments," etc.).

 

[Nemo]

Please read this: All Hospital Beds In The US Will Be Filled With Patients 'By About May 8th' Due To Coronavirus: Analysis What if just maybe this thing got loose from a biowar lab by accident and nobody wins?

We were told half of China would be infected by now, with 100 million dead in roughly another week. It was all bull****.

 

[animalcule]

No, it wasn’t bull****... the Chinese went full throttle towards containing this thing. Quarantines, masks for everyone, welding shut apartment building doors, building extra hospitals in weeks... Can every other country do this? No. Not even close.

This is willful ignorance.

 

[postman]

So many clueless people on this forum. You're the one who is unreasonable, and misinformed, and disinformed.

 

[boris]

Corona beer company also benefits from this outbreak.

They actually reported that less people would buy corona now.

 

[aquaman]

Question: if there was a genuine virus that harms people more than normal flu, would it be prudent to warn society so that they hopefully are more careful with Hygiene and interactions with others?

Seems a lot of people on this forum would have believed WW2 was a hoax or over-hyped, simply because it was reported by “The Media” and involved governments !

 

[aquaman]

I think @tankasnowgod is one of the biggest beneficiaries, since it allows him to spend hours a day writing his theories that it’s all a conspiracy

 

[aquaman]

We were told half of China would be infected by now, with 100 million dead in roughly another week. It was all bull****.

Can you give a source for this claim?

 

[Nemo]

Can you give a source for this claim?

I didn't save them, but there were at least a half dozen scientists/scientific groups giving estimates like this. If you go back to late January/early February on coronavirus twitter, you can find links to all of them.

 

[aquaman]

It is not significantly more deadly than the flu. It only appeared to be because the only people getting tested for it were already in the hospital. All the mild cases that never even made it to a doctor weren't tested.

Look at the Diamond Princess sample. Thousands of mostly elderly people trapped on a cruise ship with an infected crew, yet less than a quarter of them tested positive and there have only been seven deaths.

And note the big change in the media's response to it. The initial response was to call Trump a racist for cutting off travel to Wuhan. Then the ruling class figured out they could terrify people with the pandemic narrative, and they switched their media mouthpieces to that.

I think the ruling class hoped to use it to influence the 2020 U.S. election and now Wall St. and Big Pharma are hoping to cash in (Wall St with an opportunity to buy into the market at a discount and Big Pharma with a vaccine, "treatments," etc.).

you don’t think it’s weird that one quarter of all passengers on a cruise ship get a virus?!

I’m sure every cruise has a few people with the flu, but clearly 100s don’t then catch it.

An infection rate that high, despite quarantine, sounds INSANELY high

The death rate calculations also need to happen at the end, not in the middle. If another 7 of the infected die, that will put it around 2% death rate which is possibly 20x the normal flu