04-22-2020, 10:12 AM
(04-22-2020, 03:06 AM)Have at ye Wrote:(04-21-2020, 09:18 PM)Shannon Wrote: [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).
Basically, back in 2014, I saw that during 2019 (and later I realized it was 2019, 2020 and 2021), there would be serious issues for the United States. I didn't look at other countries, just the United States. I didn't talk much about it because I was worried that I had misunderstood what I was seeing and it would just make me look stupid to make predictions publicly. But what I saw was that the government and business would "have hell to pay" for past choices and current choices; there would also be a serious disruption of the money supply, possibly leading to a "significant issue" for the US dollar in 2021. I saw the risk of rioting and possibly even civil war, although hopefully it doesn't get to that point. I also saw the possibility that multiple different factions within the United States would be causing the unrest from within the country. The overall takeaway is that the United States government will be forced to "change or die" and that this is inescapable. It WILL happen, like it or not. When this is all said and done, I think the United States will survive, but it will not be the United States we had before. It also looks like this is in part paying for the result of what choices we have made as a country during the course of the entire life of the United States so far.
I had no idea that it would be triggered by a virus. Since I couldn't see what it would be triggered by, or how it would play out, I didn't talk about it. But most of what I saw appears to be happening... and this virus is the trigger, if not the cause. And almost all of these predictions I made seem to be on target. Let's hope it doesn't come to the point of civil war, and that nobody is stupid enough to start a war between countries in all of this.
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