Susan Glasser: "Now the US is being contained"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Susan Glasser ✔@sbg1

Now the US is being contained

Loveday Morris ✔@LovedayM

Israeli carrier El Al stops all flights to US and Germany amid coronavirus fears

8:49 AM - Mar 6, 2020

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Let me know when British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, KLM and Alitalia join in

since those all have heavier passenger volume to the USA than El Al and serve many more destinations. Until something like that happens the US is not being "contained" (and if the forehead-slap emoji means "this is a fucking stupid tweet" then you're right!)

[Dennis Donovan]

2. You missed her point

It's not about pax volume. It's about El Al deeming pax traffic from the US as too risky.

[getagrip_already]

3. There goes the stock market........

[Dennis Donovan]

4. The real test will be in 20 mins to see how the market handles the new job #'s report

If it still tanks, then *oh shit*.

[getagrip_already]

5. These numbers are being cooked.....

The labor dept is not going to report accurate numbers under this admin. So of course they were good. I don't think the markets much trust these stats anymore.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. They react to them the same way between Dem and GOP admins

Of course, *this* admin cooks the shit out of their numbers, but Wall St isn't honest with itself about it (and never has been) so they'll react like they always do... unless the coronavirus fears wipe it out.

On edit - Dow's down 700 points. Oh fuck...