Let's be real

Things are NOT going back to normal.

The COVID-19/Coronavirus is the least of my concerns right now. What worries me is the impact this is going to have on the livelihood of countless numbers of people who are now without jobs, the overall impact on the global economy (which will be catastrophic), and the further evisceration of people's freedoms as we sink into outright tyranny.

I feel that everything I have been warning people about (and often ridiculed for) for the past 17 years is now coming to fruition right before our eyes. People are so instilled with fear over this Coronavirus that they are failing to see the wider implications this is going to have.

I will gladly eat my words if I turn out to be wrong (and I hope I am), but as a result of all this in the coming weeks/months we could very likely see....

The buckling of the supply chain
Massive increase in suicides
Deaths related to an overwhelmed health care system (from
heart attacks, diabetic crises, etc.)
Food rationing/government control over food distribution
Widespread shortages of essential goods
The buckling of the internet
Civil unrest
Martial Law
Widespread economic turmoil
Looting

I truly shudder to think where things are headed right now, but it is not good. Laugh at me and call me names if you want, but we are truly entering uncharted territory. I truly fear for humanity.

Gird your loins, people. Shit is about to get very real, very fast.

 

Looks like you were right all along.

I'm still happy I never adopted your pessimistic philosophy, and even today remain hopeful that things will eventually return to normal.

For the next few years however the country will be mired in high unemployment and in a deep recession, if not a depression. But we will come out of it stronger than ever or my name isn't John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

 

That's A Lot To Remember.... ....Can't We Just Call You "Hotwater"......



Cheers Glen.

 

OK If you insist....lol..

 

I’m ready....

 

Godspeed my friend.

 

this is the price we pay for buying into the myth that not letting governments earn their keep by making themselves useful to everybody would somehow make them cheap and everybody rich.
its also the price of the multiplier effect of there being as many of us on the planet as there are, and nature is firing a shot accross our bow.
multiplier of every else we've been doing backward headedly with our choice of technologies for our infrastructure to the neglect of their effect on environment.

there is no new normal, because there never was an old normal, but yes, these things you've mentioned, they're already becoming real in the u.s., which is not really as advanced by world standards as it may once have been. something else we've squandered by hating logic and misapplying technologies choosing of less then appropriate ones.

but there will, as this one runs its course, there will eventually be some sort of return to a kind of livable stability.

but i do think this is just the beginning. that global warming increases the frequency of mutations of deseases into ever newer forms.
that eventually cures and treatments can be found, but the process of doing so, takes time, and more time then it takes for ever newer ones to mutate once again.

sea water rise will play a role in the eventually too. we're not there yet. this one, the numbers, aren't by itself going to reduce total human population to sustainable levels.
this is why we need now, to accellerate the transition to more sustainable technologies for our transportation and energy infrastructures, and drastically reduce the human birthrate.

its not too late to save our species from complete extinction, but as for the ecopocalypse, this really just the very leading edge of what there's going to keep being more and more of,
until we wake our priorities and stop putting symbolic value and familiar non-solutions ahead of real people places and things, which is what sensible people have been trying to say ever since the first earth day back in the early 70s.

 

You're one of those TP hoarders, aren't you?

 

BEFORE YOU GO OUT IN PUBLIC, ask yourself:

- Is it worth it?
- Can I work it?
- Can I put my thing down flip it and reverse it?

 

Keep calm and COVID on

 

Isyourflippyflippyflamyet

 

that reminded me of this...

 

Okay then lets really get real.

9.6 million people die annually from various cancers.
9.1 million people die annually from starvation.
1.25 million people die annually in road accidents.
1.1 million people die annually from AIDS.

 

Made me think of this, folks being just too high strung & all

 

Relax wash your hands..

 

I'm not quite sure why, but I read that with the voice of James Brown

 

Yes...and ammunition...

 

Damn I’m totally unprepared for this.

 

Ha, glad I'm not over there!

 

You need to get guns ASAP! Either to get TP or in order to keep yours