Learning from how past viruses impacted investing is critical to figuring out how to respond to this situation.  Bottom line, market sell offs were short term and followed by a stock market recovery.  Maintaining discipline over years and not months will allow your strategies to work and get through this current market sell off.   Yes, all our day to day lives have been impacted which creates anxiety.  However, these extreme actions are exactly what is needed to contain the virus which will help mitigate its true impact.

How markets behaved in past significant virus outbreaks
How markets behaved in past significant virus outbreaks

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