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Re: Timely message to all
On 3/25/2020 7:43 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 10:12:14 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>
>> 611/48800 this morning. I am sure they changed during the day. Its the
>> politicians and the media creating the frenzy, but its the frenzied who
>> will destroy the world. Not a virus.
>>
>> You deliberately chose not to hear what I said about flu. I said a "bad
>> flu year" in contemporary times. Years when they get the vaccine wrong
>> and the strains are stronger. The death toll is much higher than the
>> average contemporary year. I'm not talking about going back 100 years.
>> Just in your lifetime.
>>
>> So, you don't think the suicides, murders, and and deaths from poor
>> health care of a collapsed economy that will last not for one year, but
>> several, are worth considering. Ok. Your choice. I'll send any
>> referrals to Les & Jim.
>>
>> Underlying a lot of people's attidutes seems to be some misunderstanding
>> that working for money so your family survives is somehow wrong.
>> Society uses money as an "equitable" currency for exchange of goods and
>> services. Its inherent in society world wide, that those without money
>> survive on the charity of others. In local economies where few have
>> money many don't because there isn't much charity to give. No
>> politician can tax me for what I don't have to force me to give it to
>> those who choose not to work.
>>
>> If those who create jobs do not survive (businesses not just the owners)
>> then you have a society with little money for everybody, not just the
>> business owners.
>>
>> There is another problem many have not considered. Civil rights in the
>> USA are under attack during this government shutdown. Once a battle is
>> lost its lost. Rarely is an inch lost ever recovered.
>>
>> Worse? What if I am right. That its self important chest beating and
>> political hay making. A bunch of opportunists using it to their own
>> political advantage. If there is really a hard corp pandemic the death
>> toll will be much higher before anybody will believe it.
>>
>> Or you could be right. #boomerremover. There will be more freed up
>> wealth for those who survive.
>>
>> The sky is falling,
>> Chicken Little
>
> The above sounds like a paraphrased excerpt from Ayn Rand's ---- Atlas Shrugged.
>
> Turns out she was more a prophet than a philosopher
>
Interestingly as an avid Science Fiction reader who has literally read
thousands of books, (maybe tens of thousands), I have never read Atlas
Shrugged.
(The pun was just a happy accident.)
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