The 2nd Wave is Coming

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12. The second wave of MANY.

Fascism dictates that the economy is more important than human lives. The economy isn't for us. It's for the wealthy. Our lives change; the lives of the wealthy stay the same. They're still making money hand over fist while the rest of us are squeaking by, and others are a few weeks from the food lines.

Here's a dark set of predictions:

So we'll see a spike in about a week or 10 days. The spike will not decline. It will continue to rise, or plateau at best. Then governors, especially the GOP governors, will have to decide to shut down again, which will be extremely expensive. Some GOP states will stay open and watch their dead citizens' bodies pile up. But they'll be able to order fried chicken dinners. It will take time, but eventually, even the GOP states will show alarm over the spiking CV deaths. Quite likely, renewed shut down orders will be issued around mid-summer, when states will just refuse to take it anymore. And THEN... the long anticipated autumn resurgence of CV will blow back from the hinterlands. More thousands will die.

Some economists are commenting that Trumpy-boy has NO IDEA what the economy will look like in 4 months. But they are telling us that it will NOT expand to anywhere near pre-CV levels. The more likely scenario is that the economy will shrink, with a depression and deflation two of the more predictable features. Right now, the stock markets are artificially high, based upon the Trump Administration's happy talk. But happy talk is a fool's errand that will soon collapse when investors are faced with a brick wall of economic death. Then there will be no words powerful enough to fend off the inevitable. Trumpy-boy will be known for his two-pronged failures: the economy and the coronavirus. He'll pull the rest of the GOP into the swirling eddy of chaos and breakdown. And all of it will be well-deserved.