I don’t think this whole mask thing is working out as well as it could be. I went to two stores today, both of which had signs mandating the wearing of masks. As it happened, the two times I walked in the entrances, the guy ahead of me was not wearing a mask. Both stores were “crowded”. Not packed to the gills, but not ghost towns either. Overall, about 5% of the people there weren’t wearing masks at all. Another 5% were wearing them around their necks. Something like 10–15% were lowriders, wearing their masks to cover their mouths, but their noses out in the open. Several of the employees fell into this category. Both stores were in upscale suburbs. Not a MAGA hat or Confederate flag in sight. Bernie bumperstickers in the parking lots.
We’re not even through the first wave yet. As much as we can (deservedly) assign a lot of the blame for the pandemic’s spread to an abject failure of leadership at the top of the political food chain, there’s a lot of laziness and complacency in the public at large.
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The Delusion Of A Seamless Reopening Is About To Be Obliterated
According to Shadowstats.com, the real unemployment rate including U-6 measurements is 31% – around the same level as it was during the Great Depression.…
Another economic threat is the slowdown in the supply chain. There will be renewed shortages in many goods. I have received numerous emails from readers who work in manufacturing, repair and acquisitions of vital parts for major companies who have told me that simple components, such as electronic and industrial parts that are required for factories to produce goods and repair goods, are almost gone. Meaning they are not being produced overseas in places like China, either due to the pandemic or geopolitical conflict. They tell me there is a maximum of two months before these components are completely gone.
Congress Passes Bill To Build New 35-Mile Overpass Capable Of Housing Millions Of Evicted Americans. Yeah, it’s satire from The Onion.
Unfortunately, this one is not from The Onion: Trump administration pushing to block new money for testing, tracing and CDC in upcoming coronavirus relief bill
Former Fed Chairs Bernanke and Yellen testified on COVID-19 and response to economic crisis. Oddly enough, the two former Fed Chairs made no mention of how the Fed is largely responsible for creating the financial bubble, that Covid-19 was merely the pin that popped the bubble, or that the Fed’s ongoing policy initiatives will almost certainly exacerbate income disparities and intensity the virulence of the destruction of the U.S. dollar. Go figure.
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America spent the spring building a bridge to August, spending trillions and shutting down major parts of society. The expanse was to be a bent coronavirus curve, and the other side some semblance of normal, where kids would go to school and their parents to work.
The bottom line: We blew it, building a pier instead.
There will be books written about America's lost five months of 2020…
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