Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Have at ye]

[quote="CatMan" pid='233586' dateline='1587530972']

As for Florida re-opening... I think a lot of people in the United States have no damned clue what this thing is or how dangerous it is.  Nobody here in my area seems to be taking it seriously.  We are on state and city "lockdown" but 80% of the traffic is still there and 80% of the stores are still open.  Maybe 5% wear masks in public, 3% wear gloves and less than 1% wear both.  I think that we are going to be dealing with this thing for a long time because we in the US aren't willing to take it seriously and do what it takes to extinguish it.  We were really caught with our pants down, and don't seem to really care about pulling them back up again.  I mean, seriously, protesters because they're supposed to stay home?  I have heard a lot of people say, "Well of they're not taking it seriously, I won't either."  I have to shake my head at all of this.  Just this afternoon I drove past the beaches and they were all closed.  But on the other side of the road, there were all the same people doing all the same things in the river...

Second wave may not happen because the first one never finishes.  But hey, what do I know?

I remember you posting something predicting that this year is going to be crrrrazy for the US, and I believe that the COVID pandemic is going to be the instigating issue. The economic system could potentially collapse because it appears to be predominantly credit-based and thus unstable (in short: nobody actually controls the wealth they supposedly own). Later this year or early next year, I'm predicting anti-vaccination riots once a vaccine for COVID is developed and it's going to be made compulsory (because... anti-vaccinators... lol).