Oct 7, 2026 · 10 min · 7 segments
A worker at a Russian institute that studies plague and other dangerous pathogens has died from pneumonia of unknown origin, prompting quarantines, monitoring of contacts and questions from U.S…
As soon as I saw it, I was kind of like, huh, kind of did a double take on it, where we've got here the U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death and quarantines.
And as I saw that, it's no secret, if you've been paying attention to financial news at all, throughout the world, there's a lot of ups and downs, a lot of concerns that are continuing to mount about debts, deficits, currencies, but just all the various things, markets, imports, exports, all the things associated with commerce, if you will.
With that being said, as soon as I saw a plague death, it's like, whoa, I had a flashback to COVID.
Where, if you recall, when we first started hearing rumblings of COVID, at least for me and people I've spoken to the same, but most of the rumblings were taking place in Italy initially.
And what happened is now all of a sudden we see, you know, the shutdowns that we had.
And many people there have been many people who've come out, economists and economists, uh analysts out there that have said that what covid is and there are two schools of thought here covid was
you know something that was artificially put into society and others that say it just naturally happened but what most of them actually kind of agree on is the fact that What it did is it kind of pushed the pause button on what was going on in the world, financially and otherwise.
And, you know, that's something that it's interesting because you start seeing this and it's like, could we, in fact, be looking at, you know, a COVID version two by way of this plague death? So what are your thoughts on it, Chris? Am I alone? Or when you saw this, did you have kind of similar thoughts or I don't know if I'd say concerns, but thoughts? Let's use that.
As soon as I saw it, I was kind of like, huh, kind of did a double take on it, where we've got here the U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death and quarantines.
And as I saw that, it's no secret, if you've been paying attention to financial news at all, throughout the world, there's a lot of ups and downs, a lot of concerns that are continuing to mount about debts, deficits, currencies, but just all the various things, markets, imports, exports, all the things associated with commerce, if you will.
With that being said, as soon as I saw a plague death, it's like, whoa, I had a flashback to COVID.
Where, if you recall, when we first started hearing rumblings of COVID, at least for me and people I've spoken to the same, but most of the rumblings were taking place in Italy initially.
And what happened is now all of a sudden we see, you know, the shutdowns that we had.
And many people there have been many people who've come out, economists and economists, uh analysts out there that have said that what covid is and there are two schools of thought here covid was
you know something that was artificially put into society and others that say it just naturally happened but what most of them actually kind of agree on is the fact that What it did is it kind of pushed the pause button on what was going on in the world, financially and otherwise.
And, you know, that's something that it's interesting because you start seeing this and it's like, could we, in fact, be looking at, you know, a COVID version two by way of this plague death? So what are your thoughts on it, Chris? Am I alone? Or when you saw this, did you have kind of similar thoughts or I don't know if I'd say concerns, but thoughts? Let's use that.
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