Dire Indeed
If you are at all like me, and you’ve been browsing any of the many papers and articles that people are writing about the pandemic, then you’ve seen those “How the Pandemic will Effect (X)” and it will be something about how badly this is going to screw up some sector of modern society. How will CV effect the banking industry. How CV will collapse this organization. How it could destroy that system. All of it is grim news, although it gets painted with a “if we act now” stringer at the end.
The one thing I haven’t seen, and it scares me the most, is anybody really considering the cumulative effects of all these things combined. We can already see how it’s affecting the global economy, and by almost every single analyses I have seen, it’s going to get much worse, before it gets better. Then there’s the overall medical situation, which again, is only getting worse, and is really primed to get far, far worse if somebody doesn’t stop Trump.
What about agriculture? Is there gong to be anybody to plant, care for and harvest crops this summer? But think a bit longer term… we might face shortages, ok, but what about the fact that the only things we still export are food and fossil fuels? If we here in the USA are facing shortages of food, what is happening in all the countries that depend on us for a vast amount of their food? And a bit longer term… CV is being predicted to hit the Southern Hemisphere much harder than the Northern, for a number of reasons; and South America supplies the bulk of the world’s (including the USA) fresh fruit. And while Trump credits warm weather far too much for making the virus dormant, he’s not entirely wrong, viruses do spread more easily in colder weather, and winter is coming for the South. Prepare for a possible major food shortage in the next couple years. (And maybe famine for a lot of places.)
And speaking of effects on other places, a lot of those Southern Hemisphere countries are already in trouble… violence between left wing and right wing forces, with the USA invariably siding with right wing dictators and “insurgents” against the obvious wishes of the citizens for a left wing government. We sanction some of them… what happens there? And speaking of sanctions… that opens another whole other bag of worms.
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What happens in the Middle East? Any nation that doesn’t side with the Saudi/Israeli/United States bloc, will be forced to side with the Russia/Iran/Turkey bloc, or disappear into dust. And then there’s the obvious tension of having a president who is beholden to the arch-villain of the other bloc (How do we oppose the Putin bloc in the M.E. while simultaneously kissing Putin’s ass?)
And you may as well buy the flowers for Yemen right now. I pity Yemen, who the FUCK is gonna care about Yemen?
But I digress.
How will CV effect trade? Have you considered that? With most economies in shambles, trade is going to be very difficult, and then there are the already existing tensions over trade between the two largest traders on Earth. And America is losing that war, big time. Donald Trump may not see it, but while we are over here letting a few billionaires loot our entire society, China is working as hard as it can to become the world’s most dominant nation. They are doing research, building military, educating their children, improving their infrastructure. They are looking forward to the future… we’re squabbling over fucking monopoly money that we’ve created out of nothing, because we are ruled by psychopaths. America, prepare for the day when we are not only not the best nation, but we soon won’t be the richest, or the most militarily powerful. And CV is probably hastening THAT.
And then there is our ongoing problem with our inherent xenophobia, one of our major problems even at the best of times. It doesn’t really bear thinking too much about how CV will effect us there, it’s a little too frightening to contemplate. All I have to do is picture Steven Miller whispering his Nazi agenda into Trump’s ear, and then realizing that there are more Millers whispering to more Trumps, in many countries of the world right now.
Honestly, I could go on and on, I’ve read tons of shit about how this is going to effect this and that and the other… and I could sit here listing just how bad shit is likely to get in even more areas of our society, you probably could too. Maybe even think of some I’ve missed. We really are not seeing the big picture, but perhaps it’s for the best. The big picture looks dire indeed.
