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RE: COVID-19: "Post-COVID World," Losses Mount, and now "Phase Four?"
The more I read on what is happening in America, the more I'm reminded of an account I read on Mao's time as ruler in China. He took the farms from the farmers "for the country/people" and he took private businesses from the people who built them.
I see the US is bailing out the big corporations, but small businesses get loans, meaning that if they get through this, they will be practically owned by their creditors. Now I see US farmers going out of business because the supply chains they've built have been severed while the import supply chain continues to supply the supermarkets that are people's only choice for food purchases. It may not be as obvious as Mao's takeover of the country, but will the results be the same?
Making no claim to being wise enough to know @minismallholding ...
... I certainly am no fan of how this is being handled. And, at least from what I "see" in the so-called "news" and what I read "in here," the issue is far, far bigger than America alone. To an amazing extent, the world has been led into a "lock down" to one degree or another. And it has been pretty well accepted apparently ...
How are you doing there in your corner of the planet, my friend? I hope okay, all things considered. It is my very great concern, while we are also okay at the moment, that we are only in the very early stages of whatever is coming. As an inevitable consequence of the choices made by our "fearless leaders" ...
As I say, from time to time, "I hope to be proven wrong." We'll see ...
Being proven wrong would certainly be a blessing, but so far all the predictions are coming true. Our prime minister has made threats that this could go on for a year, which would well and truly destroy the majority of businesses in this country and we aren't even at the level of lockdown of some countries. Those that are still managing to tick by will eventually grind to a halt as the supply chain breaks.
At the moment my husband still has work, but my eldest had finally found work in hospitality and gymnastics coaching and weeks later it was all shut down. She's not taking it well, because she was all set to move out and find a place near the city. We're taking the brunt of that, because she doesn't want to be here any more, she wants her independence. At a time when I feel we should be pulling together as a family to get through this, she's resentful. Funny how crisis can bring out the worst in people or the best.
Yes, @minismallholding …
… we are already well on our way here. Listening this morning to some of the details of the so-called “three-phase reopening” plan here in America, I am not impressed by how clearly this is understood. Or, likely more accurately, being acknowledged ...
No matter where we are in the world, in my view, we are all in the early stages of finding out the limitations of any State's ability to “save” us. As stated inside this post, inevitably, in amongst all the internal political “wrangling” over what to do, “winners” and “losers” are being determined.
We all wait to find out which category has been selected for us …
Very true. When the facade of “preference” is stripped away, we all find out what level of “conviction” there is under the surface. Only the latter has any realistic chance of holding up in the midst of the “fire” …
Hopefully your daughter, in time, will "grow up" and accept the situation for what it is. And be the better for having gone through it properly. Sadly, at least for most of us, we tend to learn our best lessons the hard way ...