The First Act
It has been an absolutely stunning couple of weeks, The first two in March, 2020, with the advent of the Coronavirus, (Covid-19). Storming across the world and settling in various countries and multiplying rapidly, it is the first really big pandemic in just over a hundred years, and we are woefully unprepared. No one knows how Many millions of people it will eventually infect and how many tens of thousands it will kill. But the government has acted predictably, spending trillions of dollars to shore up banks, hedge funds and the stock market. (We have just got to keep up those profits, no matter what!) For the rest of us, who will absorb the brunt of this deadly pandemic, we have been told by the people in power, that’s not their responsibility. It now has been said out loud and in exceptionally plain terms, the government only exists to promote the business aspects of our society.
This is merely a very chilling first act in an upcoming 50-year drama, the first scene in the final play of planet Earth, and everything that can go wrong, already has. Consider the next few disasters to come over the course of even a few years in the future. What are we going to do when our coastal cities start to flood? What are we going to do when the air starts to get more polluted and less breathable? What happens when the fish start to die in the oceans and it becomes less able to help oxygenate the planet. Here is a good one, what happens when the equatorial areas around the world become less habitable due to extreme temperatures? And where do a couple of billion people go to get away from the crop failures and resulting famine, less fresh water, war and more disease? Not to mention increasing storms, floods, drought, cold and heat waves, unpredictable conditions and just plain bad luck of being in the wrong place at the right time? Do we just give up on the environment and say, too bad for all the animals?
And how are we going to pay for all of this? Our little pandemic is predicted to cost many billions and billions of dollars and with the government giving away all the money in corporate subsidies and welfare to the the stock market and banks, I don’t hold out hope for any help for ordinary people. This is just the first of what will probably become a series of pandemics over the next 50 years, but I am sure that we will not learn any lessons from it. We will just stagger from economic shock to the next economic shock. How much do you think it is going to cost to wall off all those flooding coastal cities, most of them the biggest ones in the various countries of the world? Got to protect those cities and the banks and businesses there, but who cares about the people, they can move someplace else. Of course the people living elsewhere will not be very hospitable to those diseased billions of climate refugees and a great deal of conflict will occur. So the first act is now underway, sit back and grab some popcorn, the rest of the play should be very entertaining.
(in just a couple of weeks, the major cities of the world have basically become ghost towns as all the people quarantine themselves from a virus that cannot be seen unless you use a microscope.)
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