I just love these animations. They show so clearly and graphically trends over time and this weekend it's been particularly timely.  So here I submit an animation showing the rise and fall over and over again of the pandemic from Day One until now.  These trends also of course coincide with equally dramatic events in the stock market.  And given the very dramatic events on Friday with the market crashing due to the new emerging variant in South Africa, tomorrow will be particularly telling. Will investors have digested the news by then and start picking up bargains, or will the panic continue and the indexes slide even more?  There's more suspense here than in a Hitchcock film.  Stay tuned.  

https://ritholtz.com/2021/11/visualizing-covid/

Visualizing the Pandemic, Jan 2020 – Nov 2021

November 26, 2021 4:00pm by Barry Ritholtz

The Pandemic in 60 Seconds

Source: r/Data is Beautiful

 

 

The latest Covid mutation named B.1.1.529, (Nu) appears to be increasing in most of South Africa; it has people worried about another wave of infections.

While you mull that over, give this county level animation a once over. You can see how the pandemic spreads, from person-to-person, county-to-county, state-to-state, country-to-country. This is a dangerous virus, and the people who resist masking, social distancing and vaccinations are masking it all the more difficult to get under control.

In response, the stock market shed 2%, with travel, hospitality and live entertainment falling 6-10%.

This is not over yet. That makes certain misguided people happy. More on this next week.