Ann: Quarterly Activities and Cashflow Report - March 2020, page-68

Thanks for the feedback. But who is to say we don't get another one of these fake pandemics next year, and the year after that? In general terms, as this is not GOR specific, either the money to pay dividends is there or it isn't. To me, that ought to be the only criterion. My opinion on the matter is this: where it is beyond their control, companies should not use outside forces as a reason to act in a potentially deleterious manner. When I say deleterious I mean deleterious to shareholders: that could mean changes to the way a business is run or abolishing dividends altogether. Especially when these outside forces are as invisible as they are fake (a very large topic, but I have done mountains of research on this and believe me, we are dealing with nothing more than a common flu, meaning we have been taken to the cleaners).

Real or not, I understand the collaborators can legally shut down businesses, which they clearly have. But that doesn't apply in this case, and it hasn't stopped many gold miners from not just paying dividends but increasing them:

"At a time when dividend increases are few and far between, Newmont delivered a doozy: a 79% increase to its quarterly payout."

All I am saying is, let's not invoke a flu (which is what it is, even if they are not aware of that) as a reason for not following a certain course of action. And if we do, we are only being held hostage by people, the controlling bodies, who hate you and wish you harm via a vaccination program that will do just that. What you are seeing in real time is millionaires becoming billionaires, billionaires becoming trillionaires (Amazon just hired 100,000 extra people to keep up with new demand now that small businesses have been decimated), and middle classes becoming the new peasant classes. That is communism. Communism that no one voted for. Because no sane person ever would.