Editor’s Note: Of course I goofed — it wouldn’t be 3WW, it would be 3W. But this is propaganda we’re talking about, so lulz.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The fundamentals of the economy are fine. But in the immediate near term, we have more pressing, existential metrics to use than the daily close of the Dow Jones. We need to worry about three things: 1) Food 2) Lights 3) Military readiness.
If we can’t keep those three things going, then everything is going to be a disaster. We have to have those three things to do the next thing: make sure we save as many people as possible. If we’re worried about the economy as we rush towards such a unprecedented long term crisis, we’re only going to ensure that a lot of people get sick and or die.
But we focus on those three metrics above going forward, we can save a lot of lives without the distraction of making sure plutocrats are able to make an extra billion here or there. We have to put human life first, no matter what.
Of course, that’s not at all what is going to happen. In fact, the first thing we’re going to have to worry about is if Trump implodes or explodes on a mental level. Is he going to turn into a puddle in the Oval Office, or is he going to go transactional with his insanity? He is going to get really passive aggressive on Twitter, saying we hate him, etc, etc. Ugh. He’s a big baby. A deranged, moronic baby. And in the near term, when we should be trying to save as many people as possible, we’re going to have to figure out how to babysit Trump so he doesn’t get us all killed one way or another.
I’m really concerned about one particular group — the elderly. If we don’t get our act together there’s going to be a great culling of elderly people we may look back upon as The Gray Plague. Yes, the Spanish Flu killed a lot of otherwise healthy people, but COVID19 may kill a lot more elderly people simply because our population is significantly larger and they’re a lot more vulnerable on an existential level.
Anyway, we see this as a war with battles that we may win or lose. I think we should call it 3WW — World War WuFlu. It’s catchy and evokes WW3 to give people some sense of how tough a fight this is going to be.
Keep the faith.
