Well they can always try, but that's not "how it works" Trump haters can spin shit all they want, that's not what gets factored in the end, they aren't the only bullshitters out there trying to manipulate markets their way ... You have a permanent sea of fears and bad news, which carries within itself a potential for risk, look at wars, look at all shits, government shutdown public deficits, borders, brexit, youNameIt Markets are used to that, just a rumor or an overblown rumor isn't going to cut it, it has to materialize in any meaningful way before anyone starts to really pay attention, it's not as if good news was the norm If it fails to materialize in a meaningful way it's jut business as usual What's real is that factories are paralyzed, and not just a couple of random factories in an irrelevant country, it's in china, the world's factory, everybody relies on supplies from china. It's not a matter of "make a wish", shit is stuck. You can always put a gun on workers' head, they aren't going to perform well on production lines if they are sick en masse, if they are able to do anything at all to begin with, aside from coughing to no end. You can always attempt to relocate but it takes time and it's not cost free. Needless to mention that it's not going to be cost efficient as it used to be in china. It has to be factored in, you have no choice, it's not just a "maybe" ... Now I get that the anti trumpers want it to blow over in order to blame trump, but that's retarded. Nobody's going to buy that. First because even if they could print their way out of this, trump has no direct authority over powell and the federal reserve and central banks to begin with. Second, because trump isn't that freaking virus, it's nobody's fault, shit happens and has its consequences. Even chinese with their totalitarian population control failed to prevent the virus from going global. What is trump supposed to do then? It's like blaming trump for an asteroid strike and its economic consequences essentially, it's non sense