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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to invest

off here this Friday my 13th Friday the 13th

actually a good day for the market today even though it's Friday at 13th

2020 and I want to put things in perspectives I can in 1969 Hong Kong flu pandemic and

also the SARS flu pandemic in 2002 both caused the stock market to take pretty good hits.

However, the market recovered and neither event caused a recession.

It's just that no one can truly say when the market hits the bottom. I can't tell you during this pandemic I

don't I don't know no one knows and this is a little bit is a bit different

it's not exactly the same but the there's a lot of fear and of course there's potential severity

of the coronavirus spreading everywhere I think it will actually to be honest

it's just how fast it will spread and that's what the that's what we're doing here in the US trying to slow it spread and that gives time for the hospitals and everybody else to get ready and also to try to come up with a antidote of some kind to the virus.

You know, a flu shot basically.

In 2009, a flu epidemic and that's or the swine flu, remember the swine flu?

2009, 2010, that last one, 2009, 2010, that was the H1N1 virus.

And then there was the first H1 endless virus there was in

18 1920 which was the Spanish flu do you remember the I don't know one

remembers that but it was a long time ago, but it was pretty severe. So that's what we're dealing with now. In 2010, there was 12,469 deaths from the swine flu.

12,469.

In America, you know, have we had so far from the,

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