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Clarification Of The Lockdown Rules (Just Playing Our Part)

1. You must not leave the house for any reason, but, if you have a reason, you can leave the house.

2. Masks are useless at protecting you against the virus, but you may have to wear one because it can save lives, but they may not work, but they may be mandatory, but maybe not.

3. Shops are closed, except for those shops that are open.

4. You should not go to the doctor’s or to the hospital unless you have to go there, unless you are too poorly to go there.

5. This virus can kill people, but don’t be scared of it. It can only kill those people who are vulnerable or those people who are not vulnerable. It’s possible to contain and control it, sometimes, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won’t help, but they can still help, so wear them sometimes, or not.

7. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarkets, but there are many things missing or in short supply. You shouldn’t buy loo rolls, but you should buy some just in case you need some. They won’t run out in supermarkets, but, if they do, don’t buy them.

8. The virus has no effect on children, except those children it affects.

9. Animals are not affected, but there was a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no-one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there.

10. Stay 2 metres away from tigers. Also stay 2 metres away from people, as they might also be dangerous for many reasons as well as infectious – but probably more dangerous and more likely to be infectious than a tiger.

11. You could have many symptoms if you get the virus, but you can also get symptoms without getting the virus, get the virus without having any symptoms or be contagious without having symptoms, or be non-contagious with symptoms. If you do have symptoms, these can vary from mild to severe – just like most other illnesses. You might not even notice that you have symptoms, but you might die, which you probably will notice and others in your household will also notice.

12. To help protect yourself you should eat well and exercise. Eat whatever you have on hand, as it’s better not to go to the shops, unless you need toilet roll or a fence panel.

13. It’s important to get fresh air, but don’t sit down, except if you are old, but not for too long, or if you are pregnant, or if you’re not old or pregnant but need to sit down. If you do sit down, don’t eat your picnic, unless you have a picnic with you – in which case – you can eat it.

14. Don’t visit old people, but you have to take care of the old people and bring them food and medication, so do visit them regularly.

15. You can’t see your elderly mother or grandmother, but they can take a taxi and meet an elderly taxi driver or a young taxi driver. You can see your elderly relatives through a window – a bit like the taxi driver does.

16. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours … or four hours … or six hours … I mean days, not hours. But it needs a damp environment. Or a cold environment that is warm and dry. It also remains in the air, but only for short periods as long as the air is not in contact with plastic.

17. If you need to home-educate your children, you can start drinking alcohol at 10am if you wish.

18. If you are not home educating children, you can also start drinking at 10am.

19. The number of corona-related deaths will be announced daily but we don’t know how many people are infected as they are only testing those who are almost dead to find out if that’s what they will die of. If they actually do die, we won’t waste the test on them, so we might not know if that is why they died. Therefore, the people who die of corona aren’t counted, won’t or will be counted, but maybe not and probably will not be, but will.

20. We should stay in locked down until the virus stops infecting people, but it will only stop infecting people if we all get infected, so it’s important we get infected and some don’t get infected and maybe never will.

21. No business will collapse due to coronavirus, except those businesses that will collapse due to coronavirus.

22. You can have dates in supermarket queues during your necessary food shopping trip, if they happen to coincide and if you use the same supermarket, but you must not queue together, but you shouldn’t go on dates unless it is absolutely necessary.

We hope that makes things clearer for you.

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

Dear Streetwise Customer

I hope that you and your family are well.

I don’t have to tell you that the Coronavirus outbreak has changed everything, and nowhere more so than in the world of sports betting. With almost all our regular ‘go to’ profit makers like European football, horse racing and golf on hold, you might be excused for thinking that the opportunity to make a lucrative extra income from sports betting was gone – at least for now.

That’s what we thought until we heard from a guy called Craig Russell and how he was…

Making an extra £150-£250 a week exploiting the ‘invisible’ betting opportunities exposed by the Coronavirus mayhem.

You see Craig isn’t your typical sports bettor. Long before anyone had heard of coronavirus, he was shunning the sort of events most of us bet on in favour of little-known sports, events and fixtures taking place in obscure locations.

Why did he concentrate on those?

Because he figured that the less ‘pro’s’ there were looking at these obscure markets, and the more time he spent studying them, the greater edge he’d have over the competition.

Obvious when you think about it.

So why this message?

Because it seems like now is the perfect time to bring this to a wider audience…but not much wider!

You see, in conjunction with Craig we’ve put together a totally unique service which is tailor-made for the times we find ourselves in. But there will only be 100 places available. Ever.

For full details on what’s involved and why the limit, take a LOOK NOW.

If an extra couple of hundred pounds tax-free income would be worthwhile to you right now, I’d urge you to get in touch without delay. These places are really going to go fast.

For full details CLICK HERE

Very Best Wishes,

John Harrison
Streetwise Publications

P.S Almost forgot…you can get started with this for just £9.95. I’m pretty sure that makes it our cheapest service ever. Why? Well take a look now and all will be revealed.

www.streetwisenews.com/LP

Capitalise On The Crisis

Most crises ultimately turn out to be outstanding times to invest. There are obvious exceptions to this rule: buying shares in St. Petersburg in 1917 or Shanghai in 1949 in the hope that the situation would improve did not work out.

But assuming that the entire economic and political system in which you live is not going to be turned upside down, in which case the best investment may be some gold and a ticket to somewhere far afield, people usually look back in admiration at those who kept calm and bought at the bottom.

There are two barriers to being one of these investors. The first is identifying when you’ve hit the bottom. The second – which is often underestimated – is the sheer psychological difficulty of investing when all the news is bad, other investors are selling and everything is telling you to do so as well. There is no easy answer to either of these problems, but pound-cost averaging is one of the simplest strategies we can use.

Pound-cost averaging, also known as drip-feeding, is less sophisticated than the name sounds. It simply means feeding a sum of money into the market at regular intervals rather than in one go. So if you have £1,200 to invest this year, you might invest £100 per month. If you have £12,000, you invest £1,000 per month. The advantage of investing this way is that it reduces the risk (and pain) of buying just before the market drops.

If you put all your money in UK shares this month and the FTSE 100 drops steadily over the next year to end up down 30%, your portfolio is also down 30%. If you invest equal amounts monthly, your portfolio may end the year down half that – making it easier to hold your nerve and wait for the recovery.

Obviously if markets rise rather than fall over the time you are averaging your investments, you will make smaller profits than you would if you bought at the start. And the outcome can never be as good as it would be if you somehow invested everything right at the bottom.

Motivational Quote Of The Day

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”

Jon Bon Jovi

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman: ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

Steven Wright

Upcycling Opportunity

I was reading about a business run by Scott Hamlin in Portland Oregon, and wondered how many other people might be able to cash in on something like this.

Hamlin’s company, Loop works buys up end-of-line, unwanted fabric from warehouses in Asia which is destined for landfill or the incinerator. It then turns it into shirts, skirts, laptop sleeves and backpacks. The company is very much for profit, but has a strong environmental ethos.

Any enterprise that has a positive environmental impact will be well received by prospective customers and the media. Upcycling (converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality) is environmentally friendly and can be highly profitable if done well.

Are there upcycling opportunities in your sphere of expertise? Do you know of any waste materials that could form the basis of a new upcycling opportunity?

Today’s National Day

NATIONAL BATH DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

Dear Streetwise Customer

I hope that you and your family are well.

That’s what we thought until we heard from a guy called Craig Russell and how
he was…

Making an extra £150-£250 a week exploiting the ‘invisible’ betting opportunities exposed by the Coronavirus mayhem.

Why did he concentrate on those?

Because he figured that the less ‘pro’s’ there were looking at these obscure markets, and the more time he spent studying them, the greater edge he’d have over the competition.

Obvious when you think about it.

So why this message?

Because it seems like now is the perfect time to bring this to a wider audience…but not much wider!

You see, in conjunction with Craig we’ve put together a totally unique service which is tailor-made for the times we find ourselves in. But there will only be 100 places available. Ever.

For full details on what’s involved and why the limit, take a LOOK NOW .If an extra couple of hundred pounds tax-free income would be worthwhile to you right now, I’d urge you to get in touch without delay. These places are really going to go fast.

For full details CLICK HERE

Very Best Wishes,

John Harrison
Streetwise Publications

P.S Almost forgot…you can get started with this for just £9.95. I’m pretty sure that makes it our cheapest service ever. Why? Well take a look now and all will be revealed.

www.streetwisenews.com/LP

The Most Undervalued Asset

Over the last three months, most of us will have been glad of any uninvested cash in our portfolios. That’s partly for reassurance: since we don’t know how long the coronavirus crisis will drag on and quite how terrible the economic consequences will be, it’s psychologically easier to feel we have a bit of a buffer to cover any unexpected expenses or losses to our income.

We don’t want to have to sell investments at depressed prices or rely on dividends when they are being slashed. But more optimistically, having excess cash lets us take advantage of any opportunities that the market plunge throws up.

While cash normally seems like the dullest part of a portfolio, crises are a sharp reminder of why many notable investors see it as something valuable. For example, Warren Buffett thinks of cash differently to conventional investors. He thinks of cash as a call option with no expiration date, an option on every asset class, with no strike price.

That’s a technical way of putting it, but it captures an interesting idea. It’s natural to feel that holding cash is silly if we can’t earn much of a return on it. At best, we may get a long-term return slightly above inflation; more likely in today’s world of ultra-low interest rates, we will see its value eroded.

That’s frustrating, but thinking of cash as an option tells us why it’s not necessarily wrong to accept that small ongoing loss.

We can justify it as the premium we pay to have this option and be able to exercise it on those rare occasions – perhaps just once or twice a decade – when there are compelling opportunities (as is arguably the case today – not across the entire market, but in certain areas such as emerging Asia).