Category Archives: Graphic

Stock Market Pinocchio Style

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

Look folks, Pinocchio’s nose is getting longer by the minute.


The market continues on a tear, even while the economy is heading in the other direction. 


I know people have been conditioned to buy on the dips, but I’m not sure that applies while we’re in the middle (or maybe still just in the beginning) of a pandemic that has claimed 286,000 lives in just over 2 months (and that’s with a global shutdown)!


Somehow, there is a notion that when things start to reopen that all the problems will just magically go away, including the $3 trillion we just added to our national debt, all the bankruptcies being declared, and all the job losses that are becoming permanent. 


If you believe this, perhaps you’d like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.


The greater fool theory is alive and well.  😉


(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

Shabbat Shalom and Stay Healthy!

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

Beautiful Shabbat is almost here again. 


A time for rest and rejuvenation. 


Each of us has to take care of and nourish our body, mind, and soul. 


Wishing everyone a Shabbat Shalom!

Please stay safe and healthy. 😉

(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

The Great COVID-19 Lie

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

We have been told that the first case of Coronavirus/COVID-19 death in the U.S. was in February 2020. 


First, we were told it was February 29 in Kirkland, Washington. 


Then that is was earlier on February 6 and 17 in California. 


But I and others who I have spoken to believe that the first cases of COVID-19 were with us many months earlier. 


Both I and my wife developed extreme coughing around the September/October timeframe. 


The coughing didn’t go away for months!


As is now being reported with COVID-19, it was like it reactivates again and again, 


I went to the MinuteClinic and was prescribed antibiotics. 


The cough lingered and got worse a second time. 


I think I went another time to Minute Clinic or to Urgent Care and got a stronger antibiotic. 


The cough lingered and got worse yet a third time. 


As I become weaker and more sick (with fever at some point(s)), I found myself waking up and barely able to even get out of bed. 


I forced myself back over to Urgent Care again. 


I was given the flu test and it was not the flu. 

 

And no one seemed to know what it was!


They told me that they were getting so many cases…I believe they said each location was seeing about 100 patients a day!


I was so weak I just laid on the doctors exam table half falling asleep and barely able to move to get up. 


I was given yet an even stronger antibiotic and I believe some steroid medication. 


After about 3-4 horrible months and almost near collapse, it finally started to get better. 


I don’t remember ever getting anything like this! 


I hadn’t traveled anywhere either. 


Lots of people seem to have had a similar experience. 


Was this COVID-19 or some precursor to it?


I/We may never know the truth. 


But these symptoms and sickness was not normal.


And the high number of cases I was hearing about was beyond anything I can remember. 


As we know everything about this COVID-19 is not normal as we can all attest to after weeks and months of global lockdown. 


The reason that you are hearing all the confusing and contradictory communications and crisis from the “experts” and in the media is because the professionals are confused!


And we are left to wonder: when will we find out the truth about what this is, when it started, what the real dangers to us are now and into the future, and whether there will really ever be a cure for it? 😉


(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

Shabbat Shalom From Elmo!

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

Remember before Coronavirus when times where a little more innocent…


When we didn’t have to worry about viruses spread by eating live or wild animals or that “escape” from weapons laboratories. 


It’s good to be a little nostalgic.


Shabbat Shalom! 😉


(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

The Covid-19 Graph — No One Wants To Confront

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

This is the Coronavirus chart that I don’t think anyone wants us to confront. 


Rather than the typical chart we are shown with one high and then it tapers off and all is well…


There could be scenarios where there are multiple curves and peaks. 


For example, if we send people back out to (work, school, etc.) and stop the social distancing too early–while there are still Coronavirus carriers around us and we don’t have an effective vaccine–then the contagion can start all over again. 


Further, even with a vaccine, if the virus mutates (and could become more virulent) then this infection can go on spreading and killing with multiple peaks. 


In short, this is the chart that speaks to cases where businesses are closed and people out of work much longer than expected, and where the recession takes hold and does some potentially real and lasting damage above and beyond what’s perhaps already priced in. 


Again, let’s hope and pray that we don’t stop the social distancing prematurely and that our doctors and scientists get the vaccine for us sooner rather than later. 


(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)

Life In The Times of Coronavirus

Posted on by Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal

I heard my daughter laughing from another room.


A real hearty bellyaching laugh. 


Then she came in and shared a WhatsApp post from one of her friends which said:

I ate 11 times and took 5 naps and I woke up and it’s still today!

Then I couldn’t stop laughing. 😉


(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)