Every storm EVENTUALLY runs out of rain. The coronavirus started out as a non-event for U.S. equities, which, for nearly two months, kept climbing into all-time highs, despite reports from China. The comparisons made to SARS, Ebola and MERS caused investors to assume that this was a NOTHING-BURGER, but then contagion caught on and the tides TURNED so quickly that we saw the FASTEST AND BLOODIEST bear market slam in history.