It’s pretty clear from the events of the past month, that fear itself, not some virus, will be the thing to kill us all in the end. With over half the globe in lock-down, the corporate media outlets daily broadcasting their overwrought apocalypse fantasies, the recrudescence of primal superstitious fear among the public of invisible, malevolent spirits moving through the air, more than a few us surely are experiencing whiplash as we are dragged back down into a demon-haunted world, from which total, authoritarian government is our only salvation. Or so we are told. What’s that oft-quoted line? This is why the aliens won’t talk to us.
From economist Toby Rogers’ editorial at Children’s Health Defense, if the U.S. economy hits 30% unemployment or greater, we will see up to 2 million “deaths of despair”. Remember, the initial prediction for coronavirus fatalities was 2.2 million. That prediction has now been downgraded multiple times. But the deaths due to lock-down are now unavoidable. The damage to the economy has been done, and is irreversible. And so, irony of ironies, to avoid 2.2 million theoretical COVID-19 deaths, our government locks down the economy, ensuring the deaths of 2 million Americans.
If the apocalypse is indeed upon us, it is entirely of our own making.
