Local bottom forming, and support strengthening, resistance remaining constant.
Breakout very likely, imho. But also a very good opportunity to counter-trade and dump coins on us.
  what's next 

Right, everybody knows spreading is inevitable. Even B. Johnson.
But if infection rate isn't going to slow down very soon, many unforeseen and unwanted side-effects will accumulate into a BIG mess, even bigger than the mess we will be going through within the next few weeks/months. It's just a question if you want to get stabbed in a hand or in the liver.
But don't worry. Give it some more weeks and everybody who is unwilling to learn will finally do it. Even if it's in a very hard way.

EDIT: Avoiding closed spaces would at least help a lot with the spreading. The virus doesn't survive for long times outside. That's what the virologists say. As long as people are gathering in rooms, halls, churches, factories, markets (i remind you of wuhan wet market), the disease will spread, faster and faster.

There is a science called "complex system theory".
The basic outline: If you respond to complex problems (like an exponentially spreading virus outbreak) with a simple solution, it is inevitable to fail.
There are many, many examples in history.

EDIT: And Boris is as simple as simple can be.


The weather also makes the virus stay alive on surfaces longer. Man, i hope you all get out of this very mess soon and healthy, i even told the kids that the annual vacation in Italy is likely to be suspended for 2020   

In these... sensitive times... more confrontation is the least we need.
Just look back at history an learn what offensive politics brought to us so far.
What's happening is all to similar to what happened just before ww2.
The ordinary people are to pay the bill for any mess that is started or fueled.
You can't be saying that you want this, or do you?

Careful.
Zinc is depleting copper, which can get you in even worse immune and heart conditions. The safe margin is 50mg (effective) for zinc, and for medium term. So it depends on the form of zinc you take. Picolinate is most effective in metabolisation, so you have to take much less of it that Zn-oxide, for example.
I have issues with my colon and i take effectively 30mg zn (picolinate) per day since more than 8 years. I get some health problems if i wouldn't and my copper levels are monitored regularly. These are always a tad below normal, but i have to take 30mg ZnP for the same effects as a healthy person might have from 5-10mg.
Zinc helps building and restoring mucosa. That's the reason for the immune "boost".

SARS-COV-2 is very effective. It needs no more than 1-2 viruses on mucosa to get you infected.
I doubt zinc will help a lot here, but if you suffer from herpes labialis, herpes simplex a lot, gum bleeding, soft and broken fingernails as well as dry skin and skin eczema, it will help and won't hurt.

When you catch a virus, a keto diet should help in improving healing and symptoms, also in prevention, as even lab tested in vivo (with mice). Hairy M.L. left a link some dozens of pages before about the lab results.

thanks dude, no problem
infos are more important
the show must go on

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Austrian province Tyrol officially on lockdown now, as it's the national hotspot (shares italian border). An infected waiter in an apres-ski bar infected many tourists, possibly in the hundreds, mainly from scandinavia. According to virologists, apres-ski bars are very efficient spreading facilities. Also because of the lazy way to "wash" (rinse, tbh) drinking glasses. Real virologists order beverages in bottles when they go out, i heard in a recent interview. So will i.
No more public meetings allowed here, parks closed, bars and restaurants too. Police will be watching from tomorrow, army reservists are called to duty. This is fine...

EDIT: corrected some embarrassing grammar errors.

woke up on alarm
blockfolio said corn's up
more than 3 percent

still cough and joint pains
my wife calls me "covid" now
me: it's just a flu

happy haiku sunday  

Situation in Austria (not Australia) is similar, we are about 10 days behind with infection counts when compared with Italy. We should reach 1000 infections today, at the current pace. About 1000 testings per day are possible. 6k done so far. 1 dead.

You know all the work/life data from fillippone already, but there seems to be a secondary effect:

Many families are staying at home together, which brings them more closely together, in an emotional way. No father/mother is distracted from being close to their loved ones by working all day and spend their earned money on hobbies or "useless" goods. This might be enough for many to question their life priorities, maybe it will be enough to shift their consciousness from being a tiny, tiny cogwheel in the global clockwork of economy, to more important things in their relatively short life than chasing wealth before dying. The economy doesn't care if worker no. 2.122.391.231 dies and is of no more use, because worker no. 2.122.391.232 will happily take his place. And so on. I'm quite happy to see the start of a transformation in the people throug a shift of values. Crisis always seems to bring people together, helping families and neighborhoods to unite. They way it meant to be, probably, until monetarization and ever growing consumption distracted us all.

It may also lead to a new baby boom. First i was laughing about this thought, but think twice  
Many couples where working all day, going to the gym, going out, considering having a baby is too expensive...
Now they don't know what to do with their time, at home, in a nice warm bed...  

I was sleeping almost all day yesterday, medium fatigue, woke up with a cough, pain in joins and muscles and a sore throat. Raised temperature, but too low for fever. And tiiired. That's why i didnt post.
May have already cought the CoV at Judo training last week, maybe it's a coincidence. I don't care, it's very mild. Not even a runny nose. All our kids are also more or less sick a little, only the two youngest ones with a little more intensity in symptoms, coughing pretty much at night. Also pretty normal. My wife is allergic, you wouldn't be able to tell if she's sick, coughing and sneezing and tiredness already for three weeks now.
Nobody goes out, just the children playing in the woods, nobody else is near. We have food stocked for two weeks and enjoy the close family life, all is well.
This is fine. I'll go take another nap now.

& that is the moment i want to catch to buy. Tax refund fiat incoming in 3... 2... 1... (weeks, unfortunately).

I just think of something like an ATH delay. Mainly because of market insecurities and (big) miner politics. S2F is a model that has to prove itself at least for another market cycle, starting with capitulation before halvening, which we kind of already had 2019, but maybe not. Maybe capitulation is now. But who is clearing 9 year old addresses? I don't have the links here on my PC, and maybe titter is a source nobody can really trust, but i guess somebody will sum up the recent market events in a nice summary, which will hopefully be found by a WO member and linked here.

Bossian... You know by now, i hate to hate people. But i would so much like to see him lose the bet.

Good morning!

Yeah, i might sound too bearish because of the $3k - $3.5k range, but i will buy at higher prices too without much loss (or much less gain, if you want to see it that way).
I'm easy with holding out and waiting, in times of uncertainty i refuse to make moves, because this has brought negative results in the past, mostly.

Merited for repeatedly giving me the best laughs on the interweb.


Yesterday we closed the border to italy. Unilaterally, like i'd expect from our snoddy, arrogant chancellor.
I heard rumors about traffic jams all the way down to Udine. Can't verify, but sounds a bit too extreme to me.
Finally, people here are starting to grasp the situation. Schools were planned to close next wednesday, today the government preponed that to monday.
Infection hotspots in Tyrol were put under quarantine. All shops closed from monday, except gas stations, pharmacies, food stores and the likes. Worried people starting to run hospitals and doctors, because the covid hotline is overloaded.
we're about two weeks behind, with only 2 dead (afaik), about 450 proven infected now. Was 202 two days ago.
I don't have to tell you what that means.

So does anybody think i'd care about the price of bitcoin?

Seconded.
On the other hand, most of us drive cars in public traffic, every day. Accidents at speeds above 30mph are potentially lethal. Additionally, most people i know that passed actually died in cars. Not from cancer, a flu or violence, nope. Car accidents. We risk our life every day. Second: Drugs. Not the nice ones, but mostly pharma stuff combined with other deadly drugs like opiates or alcohol. When you look at causes of death, ranked by occurances, and compare that with what most people fear to die of, it will leave you wondering (at least).

Set your limits, establish hygiene and prophylactic routines, stick to them no matter what. It gives you a feeling of (self)control and this is the foundation to stay clear and focused in times of trouble. Don't think ahead too much, but rather trust in yourself to handle the current situation in the best possible way, whichever and whenever it may occur. Always try to know what to do. It's the opposite of panicking.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and watch "Zombieland" both parts. It's just a horror-comedy movie, but it teaches the viewer about the benefits of developing rules and stick to them to stay alive. No need for developing compulsive strategies, though.

TBH, the way these guys wear their masks looks more like inviting a virus 

In Europe we're advised to stay home unless we really need to go out, restrict social life as much as possible. We're about 1-2 weeks ahead, so i'd recommend to think ahead and adjust. Stock things you need, before everybody else hits the supermarkets.
For anxiety/depression: It helped me a lot to adapt to a belief that my time on this planet is limited, until a special "expiration date", regardless what i do to avoid or delay it. Now imagine you're in the future where you reach that date and just died. As you look back onto your life, ask yourself what would have you done differently, starting from NOW. What did you really want to do/achieve and didn't yet do it because of whatever. Go into yourself and meditate that.
At some point you will hopefully see clearly what you want and what you have to do, to get it. This is life. Depression and anxiety is just like being semi-dead, waiting for the expiration date. Don't trust the voice in your head that keeps you from doing what you want. Because it will try even more so, after you find out what you want to do with your precious life.
Sounds esoteric? I know. It helped me a lot to get out of the depressions of my 30s and to become proud of the nerd i always wanted to get away from, just to fit in.
Life just doesn't work like that.

EDIT: Still it was a piece of work to get out of the hole, but it payed somewhat off for me.

Probably going to win the halvening prediction game?  
But i don't really want to, if you know what i mean...

These insecure times will shake out quite some hands, i guess. But after that, slow recovery should take place and depending on the world economy sentiment, we could moon again. 2021 ATH may be cancelled, though. 2022-2024 will probably take us to flying heights again.
We'll see, we'll hodl.

Look at the bright side:
you will save a lot of cash.
more money for corn!

Mills gritt is paused.
My advice: do some planking
To maintain your strength.

May someone go on?
And then somebody else, too?
For endless haiku.

That's why i heard his secret nickname is "Donald Thumb".
He can massage a prostate while squeezing both balls with two fingers each. 

I regularly suffer from sleep attacks when watching youtube videos. For real.
Most time i wake up because the back of my head smacks against the wall. My couch has no backrest, only a dozen of pillows. More like a bed in the corner of the living room. However, this is also induced by the baroreceptors near the spine. I lean back and relax, five minutes later, at max, i'm out. Born workaholic  
But when watching youtube's influencers videos, or trying to, sleep attacks kick in even when sitting at the table. The only difference is that my head nods forward. I kissed my keyboard more than once, already  

When i picked up the kids at school today (which is closing down for at least two weeks now) i heard other parents talk about investing in bitcoin, because the price sunk $1000 (...) "No, it's even down $2000! ...", "Then i'm gonna buy for sure now!" ... (and so on). I didn't join the talk, but what i really heard from it was:

"Bitcoin is low, i'm gonna catch the falling knife"
"Bitcoin is even lower, i'm finally buy the blood and become a coiner"

So i guess that BTC will tank even lower after the rise from $4.x cools off.
Many people gonna loose their newly invested money to the whales, at least to some good percentage.
I'll wait for it. I can still buy on the way up until about $6.5k if i'm totally wrong.
My final word (opinion): Bitcoin will go lower before the slow rise to next ATH. When i look at all the pumps after 04/2019, i'd say the bottom could be somewhere between $3 and $3.5k.