My thoughts are if everyone would shut everything down for 2 weeks we may be able to #flattenthecurve , otherwise, there's no stopping this.In case you need to be a member for link to work, it states: The National Association of REALTORS® has been responding to a flurry of legislative activity aimed at providing economic relief from COVID-19.

Given everything that is going on in the world today, it is pretty clear to me that we are headed for a global recession/depression due to the economic impact that will be felt worldwide from the Coronavirus.Hopefully I am wrong, but the signs are pointing this way...So to be as prepared as possible going into these time, through and coming out the other side, as this really being the first recession I have gone through that will impact me significantly (as the 2008/9 one I was young enough and going through post secondary education that the impact to me was minimal), I wanted to lean on the experience of those that have been through one of more recessions.Here are some of the questions that keep coming to mind:Previous experience:- how did you protect your downside and mitigate risk in your portfolio and personal finances when you realized where the economy was headed?

With the stock marketing dropping and home showings slowing down because of the virus and economic uncertainty.

There will be plenty of deals out there once we come out of this economic nightmare. 

(and experts in the field not paid CBS/NBC commentators).Also there are no controlled clinical trials showing the malaria drug chloroquine effectively stops coronavirus in it's tracks. 

Rents were fairly stable in the last economic recession here in the pnw.

There are probably many here that "understand" the short term rental market, as we've just experienced the longest increase in market value and economic growth since the post war era.

Continuous learning and searching with the help of experts in the industry over the next 4-6 months, you’ll get more extra $ earning in NO TIME at your convenience!  

Continuous learning and searching with the help of other experts in the industry over the next 4-6 months, you’ll get more extra $ earning in NO TIME at your convenience!

I've been reading so much about people arguing back and forth between gold, silver, USD, bitcoin, real property etc about what might be the better hedge or store of value in catastrophic economic conditions.