@SR050321:Opening vs Covid Wave 🌊😷🤒 The only things i am worry with covid is short of oxygen in the body, hard to breathe, organ shutting down or not functioning well, long covid. It maybe rare cases, we got vaccinated hopefully everyone strong enough to take it like common flu.  Continue to eat healthy food, do not go to overcrowded places, Chinese New Year is coming, still consider online gatherings and e-red packet 🧧 we go out to work no choice, have to earn 💰 but avoid to gather large group, every day different group, then it is very hard to stop the spreading.  I usually do gathering once a week, once a month, most of the time be at work/home/online at tiger 😂  Actually depends on body resistance as well,if you never get covid since 2020, unlikely yo

@Frisbee:$Apple(AAPL)$  has a reputation for being a good capital allocator. Consider that the company has repurchased more than $550 billion worth of its own stock at an average purchase price (on a split-adjusted basis) of just $47. The program "has been incredibly successful." Adding to its capital-return efforts, the company has paid out a dividend since 2012, increasing it every year. In addition to its value-creating capital-return program, the company is known for being a penny-pincher when it comes to acquisitions, decreasing the risk of Apple overspending on assets. Apple's largest public acquisition was Beats Electronics for $3 billion in 2014. Even back then, however, this was a drop in the bucket for the comp