Re: Timely message to all

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

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