Corona concerns

Things aren't that much better than they were three months ago, the disease spreads faster, the deaths are higher, and rising in most parts of this country. The preparation and fear is worse, way way worse. And people are practicing much less obvious distancing and prevention measures. As more information becomes available, it's becoming clear it could have longer-term medical repercussions. The economic impact is yet unclear, because the stock market is acting strangely, but it wouldn't be too much of a leap to assume a deadly pandemic that kills millions is going to be bad for the global economy. It may favor the few, but the blood-money-makers woulda' made money anyway, pandemic or not. War, famine, death, etcetera, they can squeeze monies out either way. They didn't need a global pandemic to stuff their coffers, so at least we can be glad in the knowledge that this wasn't a profit-oriented pandemic.

So what's going to happen now? How many deaths will the world have had, will America have had, by the time this is over. How's this going to turn out in India, where the deaths will be incredibly painful and distributed obviously, but the long-term health repercussions will sting the worst because people there need to be doing manual labor for their livelihoods.

I'm afraid we won't have taken any lessons out of this. America will probably have taken the wrongest possible lesson you could take out of it. Instead of using this as an opportunity to be kinder, nicer to their populations, to encourage a culture of less stress and more savoring of their lives it's entirely possible this will make American lives even more hectic. Hope someone, somewhere, anywhere, learns the right lessons.

They're talking about second waves and third waves. When the disease doesn't significantly go down, there's no waves, just one giant unending unyielding tsunami. The cure or vaccine is not a guarantee. The tests might improve, quite a bit too, they're testing dogs to great accuracy apparently, so that would curtail the spread so much. As things are, it's possible the disease won't have disappeared in six months, by this December.

In March I wrote a post here, when American numbers were in the low hundreds, worrying how America could mishandle it. It's done that now, and it's only been three months since the prediction. Three months from now and things are going to get worse, I'm afraid.

People need to feed their families, they need money. One option was to give everyone a universal income so they wouldn't need to work. Economy could be on life support while everyone avoided the disease. The alternative was to do things as usual, open things back and get everyone infected, killing a large percent of the population, causing a huge load on your healthcare system for a long long time. No one cares. It's fine. It's just a massive massive disappointment.

Makes one wonder about the future of democracy and governance. The disease will die down eventually. The ailments and infections its exposed will fester on forever. There seems to be no bandage in sight.