With the Dow opening down over 22 hundred points in the first minute of trading and the Covid-19 virus still unchecked and adding to it's infection totals our society here in America is anxious to say the least. What is worse of all though is that we have an appointed president who surrounds himself with unqualified personnel giving out information that is suspect if not intentionally wrong. The good news even if less comforting is that many of our state governments are acting above and beyond the call of the woeful federal government nonsense.
Each state has it's own political slant and those who are more liberal are acting with due concern for it's citizens. Those whose politics leave their state with conservative leanings are less involved in an urgent way and are lagging in accepting reality as it is. For those states the constituents are more inclined to not being prepared and more susceptible to unnecessary infections. Nothing to do about that except to keep hammering those republican led states with phone calls. Gathering for protests is not an option for now as unfortunately, transmitting the disease becomes too easily accomplished.
With more businesses shutting down or winding down and more runs on the stores by hoarders the likelihood that things will get better before getting worse is not going to happen. So panicky today and tomorrow, what, outright desperation? I don't know but the week ahead is never been less sure to me to being normal than it is at this moment. The dead wood at the top of our federal government is keeping us from making plans that are intelligent and efficient aimed at keeping the most citizens alive and not harmed economically. All trump wants to do is stay in office and use it to make money and that is not a formula for success for the rest of us if we want to keep our society from disappearing right out from under our feet!
Each state has it's own political slant and those who are more liberal are acting with due concern for it's citizens. Those whose politics leave their state with conservative leanings are less involved in an urgent way and are lagging in accepting reality as it is. For those states the constituents are more inclined to not being prepared and more susceptible to unnecessary infections. Nothing to do about that except to keep hammering those republican led states with phone calls. Gathering for protests is not an option for now as unfortunately, transmitting the disease becomes too easily accomplished.
With more businesses shutting down or winding down and more runs on the stores by hoarders the likelihood that things will get better before getting worse is not going to happen. So panicky today and tomorrow, what, outright desperation? I don't know but the week ahead is never been less sure to me to being normal than it is at this moment. The dead wood at the top of our federal government is keeping us from making plans that are intelligent and efficient aimed at keeping the most citizens alive and not harmed economically. All trump wants to do is stay in office and use it to make money and that is not a formula for success for the rest of us if we want to keep our society from disappearing right out from under our feet!
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