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This is good, but misses the biggies.
1. Bureaucratic sloth, inneptitude and power mongering. The biggest looser in this is the DC bureaucracy. They have proven they are worthless, obstructionist, and sent home to “telecommute” utterly irrelevant to solving real problems or delivering real things.
2. The CCP is still a communist imperialist threat.
3. The democratic party who are first and foremost shills for #1 and #2.
Kaslin, thanks for the post. I agree good things will come from this pandemic. I have reconciled with my son who is at home with us.
8. Independence from China.
Making our own drugs and basic emergency supplies should be a priority.
We need Senate hearings about Chinese influence in our state and national politics. Swear people in and find out if they’ve taken Chinese money and if they are under Chinese control.
When IPhones broke and stores were closed a whole generation freaked out.
I’ve been working at home for three weeks. We’re on 32 acres in the sticks with lots to do on our property so it’s been no big deal. But I decided yesterday we needed to do another costco run, so we did.
It was exactly the same as any other costco run. In fact, the crowd was the same size as normal (the number of customers in the Louisville stores here is MUCH smaller than in the Seattle stores and, especially, our closest store when we lived there - Tukwilla).
However, there were minor differences:
1. there was a thin, clear plastic shield between me and the cashier.
2. they didn’t touch the card. They scanned it through the plastic.
3. At the liquor store section, they just had me take my own receipt from the cash register and they never touched the bottles. I put them on the counter, they scanned them with a hand scanner, and I took them off.
4. They created a pathway from the main lobby entrance to the store entrance so people had to come in through a single file pathway.
5. No free samples.
I think Costco will never bring back free samples and was probably looking for a way to eliminate that nonsense. This was a godsend to them for that. And the plastic may stay. But honestly, it was really just like any other trip.
The only change this thing has had to my life is that I avoid a 150 mile 3 hour daily commute. I’m good with that.
I think online schooling is huge, can be instituted for a minimum of 50% of courses, allowing teachers to retire and saving million in every community for buildings.
School taxes, the biggest component of local taxes can be cut in HALF.
Leaving cities. What hell holes.
I hope the cultural shift that does NOT occur is that we all become a nation of cowering germophobes.
This is a 100 year event. Sad, tragic, but unavoidable. This sort of thing happens on a regular cycle.
9. Americans stop buying shit made in China
Thank-you for these 7 wonderful insights!
I have been saying #1 for years.
#6 is particularly important.
We have had almost 40 years since Reagan of people who have not faced serious deprivation. There was some in the 2007-08 crash. But nothing like any of my parents’ generation faced, whether real scarcity in the Depression or gubment rationing.
After watching all this and, at times, sticking up for the newer generations who went through 9/11, this episode shows me that the Greatest Generation was still the greatest.
All I see are whiners, naysayers, “we are doomed” types rather than lots of people going, “We can whip this. Adapt, improvise, overcome.”
It all gets down to supply and demand. And our current society has gotten lazy and stupid with all the great advancements made in the last century. Instant entertainment, information, the corner liquor store and/or grocery store, he((, delivery fast food why cook, and the most intrusive, the government telling you what you are going to do, period. And it all is of society’s own doing. Called fat and sassy.
So every time the government rides in on their white horse and saves you, they get re-elected. Doesn’t make any difference it was their incompetence that got you into the muck, but they care about you so that’s the most important. Myazz. November is an important time this year. Get someone in there that does care about improvement rather than putting out fires. Trump was the first. Don’t make him the last.
You can’t stop the flu every year and you can’t stop countries the size of China forcibly to stop feeding it. But you can vote for the right people to try, honestly, how to work with it rather than scare you for their gains. So the flu is here, just like every year over the last half century. Live with it and get on with the real problems..getting rid of the people that feed on it and in it. Vote for innovators, managers, and providers of the tools for the people to succeed. Not those that want to hold you in fear like a scared animal. Don’t let the herd of sheep get any bigger. A herd is a bunch of animals — or people who act like a bunch of animals. Small scared ones.
rwood
Stop all worker visas NOW!!!!
No. 2 goes far beyond “government incompetence”. The mandates imposed by the despicably callous Democrat/Left governors of Michigan, Nevada and Oregon to ban the use of a life-saving drug for critically-ill victims of the Chinese Flu is as vile a deliberate action as any politician can take. Hopefully Americans will realize — if not acknowledge — that there are people in mainstream America who will do most anything to demonstrate their power over others — even if that power is self-assumed.
Hopefully the biggest lesson Americans learn is when a disaster hits, you are ON YOUR OWN.
The Gov is NOT going to save you!
good article, thx.