COVID-19 (Part 7) - by Moses

      Now that we're entering the end of April with no end in sight for re-opening markets and employing non-essential workers for the time being, how long will the average North American be able to survive financially with the current system in place?  Why did America bail out big business and the banks when it's the people that are really suffering?  When the U.S.A acts responsibly like Canada has (honoring the workforce with subsidies, employment insurance, and rent forgiveness - paid for by the Canadian Federal Government) we'll see an accurate summary of how decimated the economy in America really is.  Couldn't we just look at the year we lost as a blip in the economy and nothing more?  Just call it the 1 year lockout.  It stands to reason that middle class jobs will always be around after this scare, to support big business mantra of satisfying the coffers (the top 1 % income earners).

  The scary thing is that if this virus snowballs and stays in the system for years to come, how will we adapt until the vaccine arrives?  It is sad to say but the U.S is going to have a lot more homeless people the way they're handling the situation in their homeland.  With not enough supports being paid to small business owners and middle class homes there will be people made destitute as a cause and effect of a stagnant economy for as long as the eyes can see at this point.  Why is corporate America being given first class treatment by their Federal Government and the people being treated like lambs for slaughter?  I heard a solution that made sense.  Take everyone's bills and just add the amount of months we lost to this mess to the end of the contract.  Who really suffers when a monthly bill, or monthly mortgage is postponed for a year?  Please don't ask me to feel bad for the banks when they are constantly finding ways to make the public pay for their services and record billions in profits every quarter.  

  I feel for the guy who works in a town that has only three or four companies in their town, and as a result of the lock-down we now see a family of four being told that their $50,000/year income is almost guaranteed to be gone by the end of COVID-19 (as the companies in town may have to close down for good).  Will we see ghost towns and a deep recession as a result of trying to play by the corporations rules and authoritative practices of the institution(s) that are currently in place?   

  As for the Metropolitan's across North America, can we really practice social distancing effectively over a much longer period of time?  At what point does the bubble burst and people stop caring.  This apathy could hit, resulting in a second wave of COVID-19. 

  With respect to the testing that they're administering to the people keep in mind that about 1 Million Americans have been tested for the virus.  With a population of over 350 Million people this has to improve enormously.  What is known is that even with the virus most (95.5%) will survive it.  The problem is that in late September when the temperature starts dipping and we see the annual flu season hit, will the Corona-virus cases take precedent to the flu cases that come up?  If so, then we may see flu cases go up in number as our health care system that was accommodating the flu season annually not the Corona-virus in years' past.  This leads to an over-inflated flu epidemic in its' own right.  Say for example the 25% of all Americans that are plagued by the flu this Fall and Winter become targets for COVID.  The reality is that the flu may induce an influx of both strands of neuro-compressors as COVID and the flu strands become enshrined into the ecosystem.