Quote from: Pauws99 on April 18, 2020, 08:03

Wanting to believe something is true doesn't make it so. Shutterstock's financial position is quite strong from what I can see or do you have evidence to the contary?

Revenue has plateaued, Net income/margin is down and declining for the past 3 years
Not to mention all the bad policies. Just look at glassdoor and some of the recent reviews. Seems like the good ones(not all) might be written by HR.
It took masterfile 6 years to go under completely. I think masterfile's lease agreement for their office was one of their biggest issues at the end. Take a look at SS lease agreement see what you think.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000110465913040280/a13-8713_1ex10d1.htm

lots of other signs but I'll leave it to you to research.

I'm not saying that SS will total go under but they've made lots of bad choices that are similar to what masterfile d id. SS still has time to turn things around.

from 538:

The number of reported COVID-19 cases is not a very useful indicator of anything unless you also know something about how tests are being conducted.
In fact, in some cases, places with lower nominal case counts may actually be worse off. In general, a high number of tests is associated with a more robust medical infrastructure and a more adept government response to the coronavirus. ...

Germany, for example, which is conducting about 50,000 tests per day � seven times more than the U.K. � has more than twice as many reported cases as the U.K., but they�ve also had only about one-third as many deaths....

Doing more tests is good, and likely leads to better long-run outcomes, even if it also results in higher case counts that people will freak out about in the short run. I don�t usually like to be so didactic, but I hope you�ll be a more educated consumer of COVID-19 data instead of just looking at case counts ticking upward on cable news screens without context. That context includes not only reporting about the amount of testing, but also indications such as hospital strain, which are more robust since they aren�t subject to as many vagaries about how tests are conducted.8 Even if you�re not from New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo�s daily briefings are worth watching because they do the best job I�ve seen of providing this context.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/

Quote from: Visualab on March 27, 2020, 19:08

It's funny how people from all over the world criticize their political leaders...if they were right all politicals are morons...the real truth is that the whole world system was unprepared...and i call it capitalism....capitalism system doesn't store resources but eat them all...that's why every states in the world is facing the same problem...lack of resources...medical in this case..

And what is your alternative? Communism? Communism where all resources are wasted, generating all sorts of shortages, even during regular times?

Morons in power is our problem. Populist morons in power.

Populist morons like dear Boris, who was shaking hands with infected people to prove how stupid he is.
Or populist morons like dear Donald, who said, for a long time, that everything is a hoax, (instead of getting ready), to prove how stupid he is.

Just what If....I know most of you hat Pres. Trump...But what if the Chinese created this virus in the lab to reduce their population of elders as the 70 year old plus people old do not produce for the Chinese government. They just use up sources/food. Something went wrong in the Chinese lab and they had a very bad accident and the virus was release/by accident.. Just what if...

You can ignore the confirmed cases numbers because the UK has also pretty much not been testing compared to lot of other countries. Another thing the WHO was pleading with them to do more of.

Quote from: HalfFull on March 17, 2020, 12:08

Quote from: trabuco on March 17, 2020, 12:01

We had that big problem. People from infected areas, Madrid, moving free around the country (like Spring holidays) and spreading the virus everywhere, like the italian tourists before them.

In my region we had a few cases until that, until the holidays from Madrid and the returned students from that area. Some deads here are linked to that.

These people should be jailed.

Agreed. If they knowingly do it it's a form of manslaughter in my books. It most cases, we're our own worst enemies. If people stick to the rules, which will be short term in the greater scheme of things, then we can get through this quicker! My fear is to begin with there will be a lot of people with the, "It's all nonsense!" attitude. It's these people that will do the most damage.

There seems to be a contradiction in what you say above and your previous post #67.  Boris and his two sidekick scientist are allowing free movement and large gatherings, keeping schools, pubs, clubs and theaters open knowing the virus will be spread far and wide.  Should they be charged with manslaughter?  They have not been testing so they cannot be accused of knowing the scale of the problem, is that their defense?