We're going to make it
Wild animals are returning as our guides and friends. They must lead us out of lockdown.
These friends should guide us to a new life - free from Chinese plastic junk and disease.
I wonder sometimes: Would there be a panic if Trump were not in charge?
“Trump is Hitler”; “Banning travel is racist” to “He must order a lockdown.” Life comes fast.
Other thoughts:
Why did the economy not die in the Spanish flu? Media? Not as much debt?
Corona is terrible - especially for the sick and those vulnerable to it. It is a scourge. Radical steps needed to, and must still, be taken, but not mass curfews and swarming of hospitals.
But there are reasons for some hope.
First, deaths are only a lagging indicator - and the ‘models’ are all behind. Andrew Cuomo of New York is using the crisis to score political points:
In reality - we must admit our ‘models’ - which cause the panic - barely predict anything. Listen to data - not media nonsense.
And maybe Europe has already peaked:
Remember - deaths are lagging indicator!
And death count is wrong!
Reality is only approximately ten percent according to Italian health authorities! Italy is likely to hit similar deaths to previously bad flu seasons. Read a study here - instead of Facebook opinions from your mom’s friends.
The over-measuring of Corona caused deaths are now official policy:
People will die - but death, where is your sting? The Easter sunrise is on Sunday. Believe. Read Plato and understand eternity is pure logic:
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine, if he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal ; and since he is ever cherishing the divine power, and has the divinity within him in perfect order, he will be perfectly happy.
Later, I will show you why it has now been proven right that China did this. It came from a lab. I was right. People mocked me, quite badly. You may now give me the benefit of the doubt on all other things. As well as on an effective treatment that was covered up by hospitals and pharmacies because it was cheap and simple.
Stay in touch. May God’s love be with you.
Thank you for the post, Chris. Beautiful to see the animals, and Plato is always a delight to read. I agree that the media and debt have both fuelled the extent of this economic shock compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu.
I will add that the levels of greed and speculation in the world have contributed significantly to the size of the 2020 shock. Throughout history markets have been driven in yin/yang fashion by greed and fear, where the one has always contained the seed of the other. In 2020 asset prices have been pushed to delusional heights by greed. This was not the case in 1918. For example, US stocks stood on a cyclically adjusted price earnings ratio (CAPE) of only 5 in 1918. In 2020 the number reached 32 (and is currently sitting on 25 -- still high compared to its long term average of 17). Using another measure, US stock prices relative to the size of the economy reached a historic high in 2020. Simply put: stocks have never ever been this expensive. The stage was set for a spectacular collapse; only a trigger was needed for the Seed of Fear to sprout.
Interestingly, John Hussman wrote a well-reasoned piece in 2018 called “Measuring the Bubble” in which he came to the conclusion that stocks had to fall by two-thirds. It is still worth reading today (as the crash is possibly not over yet). It can be located online with a simple google search. The economic situation may become quite serious.