posted on May, 15 2020 @ 05:26 PM
a reply to:
Vroomfondel
It's not just this country.
The snowball effect will be extreme. How sound we and the Western World are financially, directly impacts everyone down to the poorest of countries.
If we are having a difficult time getting goods to paying customers in the US, imagine the difficulty in getting food and medical supplies to Third
World countries.
Add to that, we here are the most giving people on Earth. Right now though all our largess is being focused on the fallout from this virus and our
response to it. Private donations that once went to helping the poor around the world, will now be going somewhere else and that money is finite.
The term "Butterfly Effect" is overused but applicable here. The deaths caused directly or indirectly due to the economic collapse may well outnumber
the deaths from the disease.
It may sound harsh, which would make it no less true, but by stretching this out instead of just letting it run its course, we probably have done more
harm than good. In fact, I'm certain of it. I'm just as certain that, humans being human, even after we realize that, we will do it again next time.
Lessons learned don't pass well from generation to generation.
We protect the seals, they overpopulate and wipe out the mollusks endangering them. We go overboard protecting habitat by not allowing time honored
forestry techniques to be employed, we cause huge forest fires that wipe out more forests than we ever could ourselves. It's our nature to knee-jerk
react to problems without a single synapse being used to look at the long game. But we are well-meaning
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