I have Covid-19 on my mind. I am concerned about the failures of our state to test a significant population of people. I’m worried about my kids and their risk of exposure. I’m worried about where we all go from here as a community. It has not hit the worst of it yet. People are not being crazy outside of stores. That time will likely come. This is a conceal and carry state after all.
It feels in ways that the fiction I consume has guided my understanding of the now and of the new normal. I read a ton of post-apocalyptic and end of the world fiction, which speaks of scenarios like these. It happens a great deal faster in books, but it does happen a lot like this. One anomaly is the weird resurgence of the stock market. That itself leads me to argue that the market is artificially inflated and influenced primarily by a handful of people–bilderberg style. These people have decided to put the market back to the ‘right’ spot and have adjusted their algorithms to make that happen.
It sounds like conspiracy theory, but it also sounds incredibly believable. There is no good reason the market should be having record days one after the other in light of the growing number of cases and deaths in the USA due to this virus. And still we are talking about “re-opening” the economy as we are only starting to discover how wide this is spread and how many lives are being lost in percentage to those who get it.
The hard truth is, the richest Americans and the majority of the leadership don’t really care if 1% die. This whole cure worse than the problem thing automatically values dollars over lives. More and more I recognize that dollars over lives is exactly what capitalism means.
This understanding is starting to filter into my writing already as this moment is influencing how I construct my next piece. The plague (for this is certainly that) will make a brief appearance and will influence how the technologies for the next story came together.
Meanwhile, everyone is trying to make a profit off of this situation and I am growing more and more disturbed by how easily people are doing so. We are looking at 3.3 million unemployed and nobody wants to think about the drain that will put on our nation and her states. Still, if there is a chance to make a dollar, lets do that. Capitalism indeed.
Some Thoughts:
- I want to work from home. Seriously.