The fast-moving pathogen, which has already invaded Europe, was found in East Coast ducks. The last outbreak that tore through the US killed 50 million birds.
I heard this after the '08 Wall Street Bailout. And when the wheels started coming off in 2020, I assumed this was going to be an even bigger one.
Except it wasn't. All the money guys circled the wagons and saved the banks before anything serious happened. The Feds shat out $1400 checks and UI and other benefits. We got a vaccine out in record time. And then we fattened up the federal budget by another trillion dollars to make up for the shortfall in private spending.
I don't know what the US would do in the face of a more-serious killer virus. But I suspect there is a core group of people that do know and will have a plan and intend to execute on it the midst of a panic.
I just don't think that plan really does much to benefit me and mine. We'll just get an even more rarefied country-club-surrounded-by-police state.
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so should I be hoping this bird flu virus takes off or not?
absolutely not. a disease with a 60% mortality rate is absolutely horrifying.
You don’t need lockdowns when everyone is dead
I heard this after the '08 Wall Street Bailout. And when the wheels started coming off in 2020, I assumed this was going to be an even bigger one.
Except it wasn't. All the money guys circled the wagons and saved the banks before anything serious happened. The Feds shat out $1400 checks and UI and other benefits. We got a vaccine out in record time. And then we fattened up the federal budget by another trillion dollars to make up for the shortfall in private spending.
I don't know what the US would do in the face of a more-serious killer virus. But I suspect there is a core group of people that do know and will have a plan and intend to execute on it the midst of a panic.
I just don't think that plan really does much to benefit me and mine. We'll just get an even more rarefied country-club-surrounded-by-police state.