My Dad & Mom lived through the depression in the 1930s.
I was thinking about that.
My grandfather operated a hardware store, the town paper and some other stuff.
Nobody had money.
He stretched his credit to the max to keep his little town supplied with hardware needs and a newspaper, etc.
He didn't get paid cash very often as nobody had any. People gave him food when they could.
They'd bring it to his back door to avoid the embarrassment of being seen paying him that way.
I'm scared more today because unlike that 1930s time, we are less self sufficient.
We shipped factories, ability, know how, etc overseas with the free trade of the 1990s.
What farmer can you go to to get food ... maybe on credit?
We probably need to be shifting gears to take care of ourselves but our President is too busy thinking about guzzling Clorox and the Senate majority leader is focused on siphoning more money to the 1% while hoping Blue states go bankrupt.
We're about to experience an enormous test and I worry that we're not as well prepared for it as we used to be. WE do not have the leadership to respond to this challenge and the earliest we'll have it in place is Jan 2021.
We're in deep shit. And these fuckers are going to let a lot of folks die needlessly.