On the Home front have a cough this after the easing of all those symptoms. This from that all winter long flu. A pal here commented that Flu was likely the COVID-19 itself, and I made it through.
Perhaps.
I've read of cases exactly like this where 2020 winter "Flu" patients after recovery had COVID antibodies.
This with them never knowing they had it. Still this cough. An old radio comrade said she has the same, and it's likely stress.
Makes sense what with seeing the shut down of the world capital I live in. Also being on the cusp of witnessing hundreds of thousands to more than a Million die.
I've been reading as much as I can from both sane, and profoundly insane sources. They both come up with the same numbers.
However for extremely different reasons.
The nutters say deliberate population culling. The sane say it's just a straight up Pandemic being badly managed.
Either way this is deep shit.
The math holds up,...it's happening as we watch.
So here we are in rather extreme historic circumstances.
The unemployed are entering Great Depression numbers.
Societal stability in hot spots is still intact, but stressed,...so far.
'Seeing satellite images of mass graves in China, and North Korea,...lately Iran as well. These are not honest about their loses.
Btw some still say it's just a cold.
Amazing. Not even #45 sez that anymore. Both some of my former FB acquaintances , and overheard conversations say it's nothing. Add to that people's favorite hates. It only kills black people Chinese poor people liberals Queers old people sinners all that.
Human Beings are such shit.
On the upside with industry shut, and people not stinking up the planet as much. Nature is making fitful returns. The skies are clearing for the first time since the industrial revolution. Animals are wandering city streets, and the seas seem to be cleaning themselves faster that ecologists thought possible.
The Earth Abides.
If we had actually disappeared from the planet. It would be near totally healed in just a few years at the current rate. As I've written I assumed it would take millions of years.
Weeks it turns out for a first stage healing.
Just a few years less than a decade likely for near total healing.
This is hopeful,...perhaps we'll learn from this. That, and stop shitting as much all over the damned planet.
I'm doing my part by shutting down my useless unread blogs that are taking up digital space everywhere.
For now just this unread blog, and my slightly more noticed Tumblr page stays.
My Tumblr URL >>> https://cybermoonmoon.tumblr.com/
I let my Facebook page go for now.
There's no way to actually turn the damned thing off. So many of my deceased friends still have ghost pages up years after their passing. Me the same it looks like.
So I guess I have the option of going back after this die-off.
Speaking of which the COVID total is now officially at One Million.
Actually that's what's been tested or who died.
The actual number is 10x to 20x's that number.
Think 15,000,000+ to over 25,000,000+ infected if you want truthful numbers. The suppression of case #'s was, and is an economic ploy.
This from early in the Pandemic to keep business open. That or as #45 attempted to use as a strategy for an early re-opening.
40,000+ tested cases in NYS, and the Emerald City reigon where I’m posting from. About 800,000 in real numbers. These the untested. A nearby hospital is stacking the dead in refrigeration trucks.
As for business as usual. This goes along with our owners public attitude that the poor, and elderly were more than expendable for the good of the economy. They'll be "...glad to die for the economy" it was said.
Hopefully current gerontocracy,...rule by a small number of very wealthy mean old white guys. If we're lucky these shits that want us dead will themselves choke to death. That's how the COVID kill's you.
'Of course the grossly un-educated oblivious semi-literate generally stupid horny stoned greedy potentially Nazi Millennials won't be much better. However at least it'll be a different bunch of jerks in our faces with different, but just as destructive obsession's.
So you see it's going to work out swell.
Otherwise I'm fine.
To speak truth, I'm not stressed at all. If fact I'm feeling more relaxed than usual, because the mow-blow-and-go "gardeners" that regularly assassinate the peace hereabouts are much less in evidence than usual; plus it's easier to take a nice walk, as there's considerably less traffic on the roads.
ReplyDeleteBut this relative calm might be because my town currently has a much lower per-capita incidence of WuFlu than NYC. Once we get to 400-plus cases per 100,000 people, things might not be so mellow.
I imagine we're probably in for a major depression. I follow some bloggers whom I believe to be excellent financial observers. Among other things, this crisis may be the opportunity that our financial masters have been hoping will let them put some shifty business over on us: for example, the possible elimination of cash, or at least its discouragement. This has already been happening for some time in Sweden. Also, there is a form of wealth called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). These have existed since the '60s, but are available only to central banks, governments and the super wealthy; authority to create them rests with the IMF. They may wind up replacing the US Dollar as the global reserve currency, and the global economic emergency that is now brewing may possibly initiate that development. If this happens, the spending power of the dollar against other currencies will drop, which won't be good for those of us in the USA. Also, even worse, there is a danger of hyperinflation.
But let's look on the bright side. Rational, humane actions that were essentially forbidden to contemplate just a couple of months ago are now possible. For example, it was unthinkable to try to house the homeless by putting them in vacant hotel rooms; yet now Oakland and San Francisco are scrambling to do just that. It was unthinkable for government to forbid evictions or to enjoin power companies to refrain from shutting off the lights, yet for the moment that is now happening. It was unthinkable that the Feds might send substantial checks to many Americans instead of just giving all available funds to the banks, yet now it looks like they might do it.
I'm not saying things will be rosy, but I don't think we'll be going back to the old normal.
I see what you see.
ReplyDeleteYes our owners see opportunities to fuck the world a bit more. However then they're always on the look out for that.
The humane economic gestures business insists is very temporary. However once done may be difficult to undo.
Like Thatcher said to Reagan about National Health. "...Never let your people have it. Because if you do they'll love it, and there will be revolution if you try to take it away. ...which is why the Brits still have it.
Hopefully that will happen here.
The optics to mass evictions of many tens of thousands of former Homeless from those hotels will be,...unfortunate for whoever is in power just then. Same with a mass shut off of utilities, and so on.
So yes you have a good point.
The feds sending folks basic cash to live on, and desperate people housed the basic civilized needs met,...may not be undoable. Especially if they have it for a while.
Btw I get some of the stimulus cash too.
The republicans made sure that those on Social Security didn't qualify. Since we're already getting government money,...which btw we paid into all of our lives. However as a point of ideology it's charity to them which we don't deserve.
Anyway the push back was bi-partician.
What with so many of #45's voters being old white people on Social Security,...well ya see how that went.
So by unavoidable economic collateral damage elderly black people like me get cash too. Is this a great country or what. I'm buying Spam Easter chocolate bunnies a pair of shoes, and new graphic art comic books with mine!
However a Grab Back after the worse is over,...well they'll for sure try to. Especially if they win in 2020 which they likely will thanks to the Dems being so hatefully vicious to each other stupid short sighted, and in league with Satan again.
I can even see the red caps saying they don't want any Socialist Handout,...they'd rather starve. Then they'll vote for #45.
...and starve.
We so live in interesting times.