Sent this to my biz.partners tonight.

[OAITW r.2.0]

We are a small company that swings above its weight.


He starts with Italy and starts asking the bigger question. Highly recommend this analysis. Should be available online. It is realistic to a sobering degree.

How does this change us?

My thoughts…

Everything is going to change in our recovery period. Socially, economically, politically.

• Socially - until there is a vaccine - doesn’t exist. It won’t exist until we have a vaccine solution and/or a therapeutic silver bullet for those infected. Sadly, South. Korea is reporting that recovered CV-19 patients my still be possible re-infection candidates. How fast does it mutate? We don’t know until we can test. A federal government failure to date.

• Economically. We may yet be picking vegetables in the Central Valley to survive. Remember when we had immigrants doing that? Not now. Trump and the Nazi’s who run our Homeland Security and Border Enforcement are keeping immigrants from coming to the USA. But here is the point, we will need a shitload of immigrants to deal with climate change when sea levels are totally destroying our East/West Coast and our major river tributaries. Than it will get real.

******* Economics. There is no crystal ball, but we need to think about a post-industrial world after covid-19. Will the same supply chains hold? Or will nationalistic tendencies take hold? Don’t know, but I think we should engage with extrusion / diecasting suppliers in Canada, US, Mexico We have plenty of time to cultivate new relationships and prepare for the future uncertainty. And we have an option to support these new suppliers to opening lower cost producers when it may make sense for their bottom line. We ought to be selling ****** to selected extrusion/diecasters that we want to connect with in our primary markets.

• Politically, Republicanomics has failed. In 6 weeks. They are incapable of governing a democratic society. Apparently, they have no problems letting Trump’s ownership by Putin get in their way to create a 1 party state. If you want a democracy, you best vote against these evil motherfuckers.

• Religion. Easter was today. No celebration here. Nothing to celebrate. Truth be told. It’s a nice story, but I am an agnostic….thanks Jesuit education.

Anyways, look forward to comment from all ,,,,times, they are a changing……..

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. You are very much on to something.

Already a lot of people are doing things like making face masks and giving them to hospitals.

There was an article in my local newspaper today (the Santa Fe New Mexican) profiling a woman who normally does sewing work, whose business was shut down recently because it's non essential, but who had gone back (and gotten permission to go back) to work making face masks.

Also in my city, there's an empty college near downtown, and the unused dorms are now being used to house homeless people. There was a small amount of renovating/repair that needed to be done, but volunteers did it.

I'm seeing lots and lots of similar stories elsewhere.

Personally, when I get my stimulus check, because I'm have the wonderful good fortune not to need that money, I've decided that half will go to the homeless shelter, the other half to a local food bank.

As to your comments about picking vegetables in the Central Valley, I'm going to hazard a guess and say that the vegetable and fruit picking may well be done by kids not able to attend high school or college classes.

I also think that, so long as this November's election results in the kind of huge change in Congress, in State and local governments that I sincerely hope happens, we will see enormous changes in many places. Such as student loans. Such as health care for all in some form. Such as improved access to voting. What just happened in Virginia is an excellent example of that.

Oh, and if you get a chance, read The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. It essentially outlines what is going to be happening in the next few years.