yo!... not me... innit!
here in palookaville...
we ain't bigots...
if the facts change...
we change our mind..
AS GOOD AS WE GET
we can only read up an...
try ta make sense..
the real truth..
is hard ta find..
NOT THE FED
there see..
that wasn't so hard..
was it?
from tim duy
Look, I understand, in the finance and economics world we are used to
a crisis being about us.
But, this time it isn’t about us, as least not
directly.
This was as pure a shock to the national and global economies
as one could imagine.
One little tiny thing – you can’t even see it! –
blew it all up overnight.
Unlike the last two cycles, the shock did not originate in the
financial sector and spill over into the real economy.
It originated in
the real economy and spilled over into the financial sector.
Neither is
built to accept this level of damage.
Just like I can’t blame my iPhone
for shattering if I drop it from the roof of a ten-story building, I
can’t blame anyone for what is happening in the economy.
The phone isn’t
made for that, just as the economy isn’t made to not be put to work.
From a macroeconomic perspective, there is no moral imperative to
assign blame.
There is no moral imperative to root out bad actors.
There
is no moral imperative to “punish” someone in the pursuit of “creative
destruction.”
In this situation, there is simply no reason to think that
the activities that of 150 million people – our friends and neighbors–
were just six weeks ago seriously misaligned.
The only moral imperative is holding together the economy so that
those 150 million can resume their lives as quickly as possible.
The
only moral imperative is working to prevent another...
15 million people
from losing their jobs.
OUR FAULT THEN
Renowned conservationist and activist Dr Jane Goodall..
is hoping the
coronavirus pandemic will be a wake-up call..
warning the crisis is a
result of human disregard..
for nature and animals.
Dr Goodall said we should have known a pandemic-like coronavirus was
coming..
because other viruses..
such as SARS and HIV..
also jumped the
species barrier from animals..
and have been traced to live animal markets..
or wet markets..
in China.
But
Dr Goodall said the loss of animal habitat..
and intensive farming are
part of the problem..
making it easier for viruses to spread from one
animal to another..
and then to humans.
"We have to learn to think differently about how we interact with the natural world,"she said..
"And
one of the problem..
is that as more and more forests have disappeared,..
so animals themselves have come in closer contact with each other..
"Most
of these viruses that jumped to us have come through an intermediary..
So there's a reservoir host..
like a bat and in [the case of COVID-19]..
it's thought to have jumped into a pangolin..
and then into us."
Dr Goodall equates the human disregard for nature..
as also the root cause of..
climate change.
DENIAL
so
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
we saw this comin..
we did nothing to prepare..
ok grounding all airplanes..
would have been a bit unpopular..
ta say the least..
but it would have stopped the virus travelling abroad
and the airplanes are grounded now..
anyway..
we
did not lock down the social world..
but it is now locked down..
anyway..
we did not order..
PPE..
more medical staff..
more beds..
more mortuaries..
we did not warn..
the old..
the sick..
the vulnerable..
SWEET FUCK ALL
yes..
sfa
SEND NOT TO KNOW FOR WHOSE FAULT THIS WAS
we voted these people into office..
the buck stops with them..
but..
also with us..
you get the government you..
deserve..
also
we get alpha shits..
who are not even elected..
who grab power..
at times just like this..
and other times like this..
in days gone by..
THE TRUTH IS NOT WHAT IT WAS
coming up..
the big yellow virus..
come wait with me..
the world wide wait..
desperately seeking symptoms..
