The 99 percent that are being robbed are more worried about a flu that kills 2 percent.
Like sheep being led to the slaughter.
The masses are incredibly bumb.
Things I keep hearing from 99.999 % of people around me:
1) "this is just hysteria" or "the hysteria will be over and then I'll go out to buy some food" - I try to explain them about the supply chain interruption, consumer price inflation, the link between higher demand and higher prices, the decrease of supply due to excessive demand (people stack 40 pieces of the same product and what should be on the shelves is in everyone's kitchen or bathroom)...
ALMOST NO ONE UNDERSTANDS that
THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION that might lead to
Venezuelification - but then they laugh me in the face that I'm naive and just too afraid...
2) they think the sellers are raising prices solely to make more money: again, people think it's just greed, but no:
higher demand >>> higher prices,
scarcity >>> higher prices,
more effort into making more products with the same amount of workers to satisfy demand >>> higher prices...,
harder to find resources to produce more products in order to satisfy demand >>> higher prices,
any kind of crisis >>> higher prices,
stock market crash >>> higher prices,
worse exchange rate/weakening currency >>> higher prices
effort to reduce demand due to huge uncontrollable crowds agressing food supermarkets >>> higher prices (to moderate demand)
3) "the flu is more dangerous" - needless to comment that this could potentially spread more than the flu and kill MILLIONS; also: we don't have immunity/immune system trained to fight Corona, whereas we are able to cope better with flu
4) "don't go to the stores, because they will bring more food from the deposits" - then I explain them the "just in time delivery system" and supply chain problems, but get ridiculed again... which deposits, what food? where does that come from? ...it all comes from somewhere, but people just don't understand that
WE LIVE ON A FINITE PLANET and EVERYTHING IS FINITE except love and hate
5) they watch economic news and don't understand the connection with Corona and believe it's just on "emotional basis" and things will return to "normal"
Needless to explain QE, debt, fractional reserve lending, supply chain interrupution, economic slowdown... Corona just amplifies the already existing problem.
But again, it's the measures undertaken against Corona that interrupt/destroy/ruin economies. Yes, necessary measures, but economically suicidal.
6) they don't understand the trends - what might be coming:
->> QE4 (most people have no idea what it is... let alone, the impact on their lives)
->> we'll be forced to use digital money (because cash is "contaminated"), but then negative interest rates and bail-ins and (who knows what else) will come that'll literally rob us
->> socialism (oddly, many are enthusiastic... just like the masses were for Lenin and Trotsky)
->> they delay debt for now, but later people will have to pay a huge unbearable chunk (this is why it's nuts to have ANY credit)
7) lockdown across the world, closing of banks
->> it's a good idea to tackle the pandemic, but what if these measures will stay the same for a longer time?
(Albania and Spain have banned people from going out on the streets, many bank offices have closed voluntarily in Hungary, Slovenia only allows less than 5 people to walk together in group on the street)
DICTATORS would love these measures + some governments are already being "doubled" by the army on their side (so far just "helping"), but the equivalent of "marshal law" is already in place in many European countries (under these "emergency situations" the laws are rather military laws, so it's a "junta"-like atmosphere)
->> closing of the banks will lead to bank runs later on as the economies turn worse
->> emergency situations and marshal law essentially mean lawlessness, but not anarchy, just that those in power "forget" about your rights
8) this is worse than SLOWDOWN, this is almost STOPPING the economies
->> imagine the implication for the social systems, the GDP's, the state budgets around the world(!!!) - 1 month stop is terrible, 3 months is catastrophe!
9) China gains power, Russia is barely touched by Corona!
->> not every country is severely affected by Corona: Russia is simply "too big", while China is recovering, while the West is being eroded: I have a feeling that the anti-China boomerang will hit some blonde guy between his legs (yes, that arrogant blonde guy with hay-hair) - China and Russia could turn on the west "empowered" during or after this pandemic ends
10) medical system overload due to Corona: they cannot help you if you have ANY PROBLEM - no matter how serious, how painful, how deadly
Still, I say: let's hope for the best. Peace!
