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I must have died and gone to heaven because I've heard this more in the last two weeks than I have in the last year.

This is a perfect example of how selfish people exercising their own 'freedom' will get everyone else's FREEDOM taken away. .

You should watch some video footage of people dying and hospitals being overwhelmed and you might feel differently about tourism. Because if people continue to perpetuate the problem, this happens: https://globalnews.ca/news/6736702/coronavirus-italy-surfing/

You are, though. Since it's inadvertent, yes, I actually do/should. Think whatever you want (because that is what freedom is). We're discussing different things and you refuse to admit it. You physically and personally have the freedom to do what you want. But socially, you don't. Freedom within a society takes into account morality, ethics and the law. Your personal freedom doesn't have to. So you may not care if you get infected by CV-19 but if your 'personal freedom' might cause someone else's health (and by extension freedom) to get taken away then you will have yours removed. That's the extent of your freedom, ultimately.

Were you just on spring break in Florida last week?

I am absolutely not reading your posts incorrectly. This has nothing to do with being afraid of CV-19. I'm not afraid of it either. It has to do with how your freedom affects others inadvertently. You don't have the freedom to 'do what you want' if it takes away from someone else's freedom to live. But you just enjoy arguing with people and looking for reasons to disagree rather than reasons to agree so the discussion with you is pointless.

You are physically free to do whatever you are physically capable of. But that's not what everyone is discussing here, and you are using semantics. You are not actually 'free' to do what you want. Your 'freedom' has limitations. And it's those limitations that people are discussing. Edited to say that I agree with @THE_BEYONDER Not whether you can actually phase through people.

AFAIK phasing isn't currently physically possible. You're dodging my point. You know exactly what I'm saying. You're saying that you are free to do what you want and I'm saying that is not the concept of freedom that anyone is discussing here except you.

That's ridiculous. I won't respect your freedom to walk through me. Or does your personal freedom allow that in your world?

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45 years for me as well. I bought my first comics off the newsstand in 1975 at the age of 5

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Gang, I have a Daredevil #1 CGC 9.0 OWW available. It's a very attractive copy for the grade. Asking price $9500 (shipping included) *These are pictures of the book BEFORE it was slabbed. The book is slabbed a CGC 9.0 OWW and can provide pictures of the book in the holder shortly if needed*

Shipping: Certified books, shipping is included FREE within North America, ROW we split it. Raw books, include $10 for shipping within North America. ROW I will split with interested parties.  Who wins: Time stamp seals the deal as to who wins regardless of the form of communication (including PM, in the thread, text or phone conversation). A negotiation is not a deal until both sides have agreed on terms. If there is an unconditional posted (or communicated) it will trump all negotiations unless we have already both agreed to terms before the was posted. In that case, the will have been in vain. Except that it will give you street cred and look cool to passers by. No House Of Shame or Probationary members or any others of ill repute. Returns: I am considered a very good grader among my peers ( Here is a link to my kudos thread ) but since even CGC is inconsistent I will not guarantee a CGC grade. I will guarantee to be within one grade increment in either direction - so if I am calling the book a 9.4 it could go 9.2 or 9.6. If it falls outside of those parameters (and it does happen that they go in both directions), I will offer a refund. But I don't expect anyone to complain if I undergraded it. I will accept returns if item is otherwise not as described. Consider all books pressed. Pricing: I try to price books close to fair market value. I am open to offers but it's not very likely I'm going to be accepting offers at 30% off fair market value.

I agree with most of that but 'normal' is relative. What I do know is that even in a crash there are still people making lots of money. This is where some people make ALL of their money. Anyway, I don't think I'm naive. I do think that a rebound is inevitable just like a correction is inevitable, that's all I'm saying.

I'm not commenting on whether it is or it isn't, but I didn't expect the stock market to climb for 12 years straight either after what was supposed to be the worst economic crash in 80 years. Corrections have happened for 70 years in comics, people just forget them. AF #15 has corrected several times in the last 20 years. GA was dead for a while. Do you remember when Sterling was collecting BA horror and they were the hottest thing on the planet? All I'm saying is that things look much worse when you're hyper focused on a moment and pulling back your perspective over a few decades and things take on a different shape. I think you tend to be a 'glass half empty' guy naturally and I just think that human spirit will bounce the world back from this relatively quickly (or at least quicker than many people think possible). There are going to be literally billions of people who are going to be dying to get back out there and doing stuff, whether it's working, spending or living their lives in whatever way.

Seems crazy to be buying right now.... Sometimes that's the best time to buy. The general public panics and some people will money start buying. It's how the free markets have been working since time began and it's how some people become wealthy.

correct. it is not a problem. the u.s. learned from 08/09 about the dangers that could occur. so, this time we are going to mint 2 precious metal coins, and then transfer them permanently to the u.s. treasury as payment for the debt. problem solved. why can't other countries just do the same thing? Hyper-inflation of national currency is a result of faith in the value of the nation. I'm over simplifying of course but you guys get the point. The coins won't make people feel more comfortable. It will all rest on whether the nation can work it's way out of an economic slowdown through the GDP. But yes, everyone (including me) expected inflation to happen during the economic times of 2008 and it didn't.

I posted this in the SA Forum. We live in a time when information moves as fast as light and people's attention spans and reactions are highly exaggerated because of it. Markets swing with force and ferocity and in a wider range than anyone expects. Zooming out the lens offers perspective and the further out you zoom the more perspective you have. Zooming in to today's news offers very little perspective. Some people will either panic sell or sell because they feel they need to. Others will hold and some I know are buying like crazy now.

A worthy listen on the topic.

I'm thinking of having a large RAW book sale sale over the next week. Mainly some late Silver, mostly Bronze and some Copper run issues. Majority will be Marvel with some DC. Nothing very large or mega key (although there will be some keys). Just lots of terrific, mostly high grade books that either didn't make the cut or did not get sent off to get graded. There might be the odd esoteric GA book but not a whole lot. Lots of 9.6/9.8 raw copies from the 70s and 80s. I'm hoping to list about 200 books ranging in price from $50-150. If anyone is looking for anything specific feel free to either discuss here or message me with interest.

We live in a time when information moves as fast as light and people's attention spans and reactions are highly exaggerated because of it. Markets swing with force and ferocity and in a wider range than anyone expects. Zooming out the lens offers perspective and the further out you zoom the more perspective you have. Zooming in to today's news offers very little perspective. Some people will either panic sell or sell because they feel they need to. Others will hold and some I know are buying like crazy now.

There was a find of them. The 9.9 came from a collection where there were several copies. I think Terry O'neil found it.

Corona = crown (spanish) Roy = King (French) We should just call it the Roy Virus. Problem solved. Everyone is happy.