UmRebel

Sirius XM's Subscriber Numbers Grow, Despite Economy

Whatever.



On May 11 01:05 AM Brandon Matthews wrote:

> In the beginning there was Howard Stern, and people who talked about
> Howard Stern; copied Howard Stern; Made fun of Howard Stern.
>
> Now there is Brandon Matthews; and people who talk about Brandon
> Matthews, Copy Brandon Matthews and make fun of Brandon Matthews.

Sirius XM's Subscriber Numbers Grow, Despite Economy

I am (very) long SIRI, but give me a break. Subscriber numbers fell. 3%, no 1 %? Whatever. They did fall. They did not go up quarter to quarter. Year over year, yes. This is grasping at straws and it comes from your wrong prediction for sub growth.
The truth does hurt but in this case it should only hurt a little. 1-3% sub loss after price increases and a faltering economy is not bad. It was also good to hear on the CC that they are finally compeltely focused on making money (not sub growth.) Let's weather this storm, get lean and mean, and come out on the other side a cash printing machine.

Note to Sirius XM: Use Buzz Words on Tomorrow's Earnings Call

WCD not as confident as he was. HE IS NOT SCREAMING ALL THE TIME ANYMORE. That makes what he spews a little less painful to read,

Note to Sirius XM: Use Buzz Words on Tomorrow's Earnings Call

wholesalecd, my wife says something negative about everything she does not understand. I do not listen to her either.

Cramer Is Not Buying into the Swine Flu

People are really missing the point on this flu. There are several important differences between swine flu, sars and bird flu.
The main thing to remember is that this flu is just the flu. Maybe a worse flu than some, but not deadly to most who get it (like the avian flu.) This flu also shows common person to person transmission (again unlike avian flu.) One of te most important problems with this flu is that there is currently no available vaccine. If widespread dissemination of this flu waits until next winter, then there might be a vaccine. This is a big unknown. This is why tracking is so important now.
Many companies were hurt financially because of the weak flu season last year. This flu almost guarantees big flu season. Either now or next winter.

The Swine Flu Effect

Of course it has not killed many people now, it is just getting started. It typically takes a couple of months before the number of active cases peak.
Also most people are stable during the initial phases of the infection It is not the influenza virus that kills people. It is the resulting complications. This can take many days. It "stacks up" because of the differences in prevalence of an easily transmissible influenza virus and the other illnesses that you have mentioned.
As times goes by, the prevalence of this virus will most likely far exceed that of SARS etc.

BTW, it is E. sakazakii, a bacterial infection, not an easily transmissible viral infection.


On Apr 28 04:13 PM Daniel Harrison wrote:

> My point is that the number of cases right now compared to the total
> population in the U.S. is so tiny that your point becomes redundant.
> In other words, it doesn't seem to be THAT deadly in the U.S. or
> Europe. If this was a "killer big" such as enterobacter sakasazii
> or some such thing, I'd give credence to your theory taht the big
> will kill off more people than SARS did, but given that almost everyone
> who gets it is reported "stable" within a matter of hours, I don't
> see how it stacks up.
>
> At least not in the U.S./Europe.
>
> On Apr 28 02:41 PM UmRebel wrote:

The Swine Flu Effect

If youthink the number of deaths from the common flu is tiny, you have your facts wrong. The number of deaths from the avian flu has been small. Yearly death totals from the "common flu" are much higher. They may not be listed as such, but pneumonia and other secondary infections from the flu are large killers every year. This is why death totals in "emerging" countries are much higher. As this flu continues to spread in this country and less healthy people are infected, the death total will rise. This can best be seen as an increase in pneumonia related deaths on the CDC's website.
Simple mathematics also proves what I originally said was true. If 90 percent of the people with avian flu die but there are only 1000 people infected that would lead to 900 deaths. If 1 percent of people die from the swine flu but 1 million people are infected (usually many more ar in the average flu season) that would lead to 10,000 deaths.


On Apr 28 12:00 PM Daniel Harrison wrote:

> UmRebel:
>
> "However, because of the much greater number of infected people there
> will probably be many more deaths."
>
> Not necessarily at all. The common cold spreads more rapidly than
> any other illness, but the number of deaths is tiny. Same for the
> common flu.
>
> Notably, there seems to be a clear distinction between the effects
> of this virus in developed countries and emerging/undeveloped ones.
> Whereas in the U.S. and the U.K. victims are being described as "stable"
> pretty much accross the board, that's not so much the case for those
> in Mexico.
>
> This is why this virus is probably more significant for emerging
> market countries (and subsequently their economies) than it is for
> the U.S. and U.K. I'm not stating that as a fact, merely pointing
> out that this is the way it seems to be panning out for now.

The Swine Flu Effect

The difference between this flu and Avian flu is the rapid person to person spread that this strain exhibits. Fortunately, it does not seem as deadly on a percentage basis. However, because of the much greater number of infected people there will probably be many more deaths. I think we have just begun to see the effects of this virus on the world economy. Not to mention, families lives.