A big one for me is not the "why".. but the "if not".If I do not hustle and work my sexy little butt off, I won't be able to eat crablegs when ever I want... or call hard working people, "the help", and have 4 other mere mortals give each of my extremities a full rubdown...

It has a significantly lower mortality rate then originally thought.

:Long term mortality rate is closer to 2%.

All mortals borrow on a recourse basis at a bank. :)

I anticipate US mortality rate would be below 1%, and the stock market seems to be acting in the worst case scenario.

I clicked on this post confident I was going to give some good, sound, financial advice.. but after reading the comments, I realized that I'm just a mere mortal amongst you Legends. 

And lastly, your wrong Matt, life will go on, I am clueless how you can counter that it won't unless there is some major asteroid I am not aware of, but a virus with as high a 5% mortality rate will not end life, even 90% as nightmarish as it is means, life will go on.

The worldwide mortality rate is therefore (153,822/2,249,291 x 100) 6.839%.Now that we have a mortality rate let's go to herd immunity. 

My vacation rentals aren't in your location (we're located in the Joshua Tree, CA desert area), but just want to chime in and say that we have everything at our properties (Nintendo, tons of indoor and outdoor games, hot tub, movie projector, mortal kombat arcade, etc.) and we also have a pool table, and that thing gets used like nobody's business!

•Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess mortality compared to other European countries. especially in the elderly.AbstractObjectivesIn recent years, Italy has been registering peaks in death rates, particularly among the elderly during the winter season.