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Like the rest of you, I also felt great grief for the collective. The reason for this is simple.
Trump is tired at pretending to be a competent leader. He wants to start the economy back. He thinks he can lie and bluster and force the coronavirus to submit to his will.
Trump's plan is simple. He will lift restrictions too soon and try to convince the country that they should get back to normal as soon as possible (and also free up his businesses that had been shut down by coronavirus restrictions). Further, he is deliberately slowing aid to the states hardest hit by the coronavirus (Washington, California, and New York), in hopes that things will get so bad that their Democratic governors will take a hit. Further, he thinks that if he can hoard the supplies as long as possible, he can give it to Republican states when they get the full brunt of the disease. If things go well, he expects things to get back to normal by May at the latest.
The problem? As always, Trump lacks concern for his fellow man, a disregard for anything not related to the economy, and competence to plan anything out. This pandemic will hit the coastal cities and major metropolitan areas first, but it will eventually filter out to the rural, Republican areas. No doubt Trump believes that he can serve those areas and keep those voters happy while simultaneously saving the economy. But he forgets that the states that have the largest percentage of Trump supporters are also the states with the worst medical systems and the most health problems. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, etc., are all states with limited hospital beds, high instances of pre-existing medical and respiratory illnesses, a high percentage of people who tend to avoid medical help, be it fear or distrust of doctors or simply high health care costs, are all factors that will make Trump Country the new Hurricane Katrina. People will die in large numbers, and the economy will be disrupted anyway. Even people who do take the virus seriously will hunker down and focus on saving money in the event they get ill. They will likely not be spending it in the way that Trump hopes that he does.
Trump has a secret plan in the back of his microscopic mind that he will fool the American people, make the economy avoid a recession by convincing them the crisis is over, and hope that his lack of effort will weaken Democratic governors. But April will be the month of karma, as so many of you have foreseen. We are now in a global recession, so even if Trump does convince everyone to go back to work, he will never get the trading to get back to the levels they were before this virus hit. Further, by underestimating the deadliness of the coronavirus and the complete lack of medical facilities in Trump country, he will succeed in killing off a huge segment of the older, whiter, less-healthy voters that he needs to win the 2020 election.
Look out for April. Even though Fox News and other conservative websites will downplay or ignore the problem, many conservatives will start dying in clusters and outbreaks. And these people are Trump's most ardent supporters. Hospitals and nursing homes will be overwhelmed, and the panic that we see right now in New York will play out again and again until it hits all fifty states. So basically Trump will succeed in ensuring that his plan to make people forget about the coronavirus will backfire spectacularly, resulting in the possibility of thousands of Trump supporters being incapacitated or dead by November.
If there is any positivity to look forward to, I think we may see a brief break in June, after the virus has taken it's toll on this nation and is dying down. But don't expect this quiet time to last, as Trump will get back to what he does best: causing scandals in an attempt to rile up his base to attack the rest of us. If we are lucky, Trump will resign before then, and we won't have to deal with him anymore.
Like all of you, I am really feeling the weight of the sadness, worry and grief of the collective. I am also trying to stay well, keep busy and am regularly meditating to send light to the world for healing. It is a big job that we have being alive during these times! In any case, despite normal activities being disrupted, I am enjoying spending this difficult time together with my family and am making a special effort to consciously enjoy it as an unexpected gift that we normally wouldn’t be given of time with our loved ones.
I saw last night before I went to bed that Trump and some of his minions are starting to speak in terms of sacrificing the older generation in order to save the economy. This just makes me feel sick. I already feel that there is going to be a larger than average number of people lost to this pandemic in the US because of the inequality of access to medical care. I find it repulsive that the president and his people think that the older generation is disposable in the name of making money (and seemingly don’t realize that they are part of it). As my husband said this morning, the economy is there to serve the people and not the other way around. Without people you don’t have an economy. I do wonder how my older relatives are viewing this willingness to sacrifice and devalue their lives.
I had just the glimmer of a vision in the middle of the night. It was so striking that I still remember it this morning. I saw Trump and his people in front of the podium as something 2 dimensional and light weight like playing cards and they were flipped and scattered. I don’t know what exactly it means, but could guess that it means that there will be a lot of resignations and “reshuffling” of his administration coming up.
A prediction that I got towards the end of January this year regarding Fox News also came to mind:
Something unexpected happens with Fox News. Maybe a scandal? It exposes wrongdoing and deception on their part. This leads a large group of their viewers to start paying attention to other forms of news. The anger towards them is great but it ultimately starts the healing process amongst the people.
I think of all of you every day during my meditation and send all of you light and protection and the strength to get through these difficult times!
When Trump began botching the CV response, I immediately thought of all the times he's been trying to make cuts to Medicaid and Social Security. You don't have to make cuts to them if most of the people using them are dead.
Regarding Fox News, I just saw something online about last night's Hannity - apparently he was touting some "cure." I can imagine people believing this crap -- much like the couple who tried to take the fish tank additive because it had chloroquine in it -- and suffering for it. Perhaps this is what you saw.
My only question is this: when will he be LEAVING? They can give him a $1 billion in payoffs, I don't really care. I just want him gone. We need a sane leader who gives us some semblance of comfort and unity.
His departure won't stop the pandemic -- nor will it excise (or should I say excorcise?) the underlying rot that exists in our government and society -- but it will gift us with a bit of daylight.
@Allyn Well said. I don'tknow about the rest of you, but I am 68 years old and I ain't sacrificing anything for the Looney Toon administration.
I just realized (Trump & Pence) -- T&P = TP = Toilet paper! lol ?
While I was meditating today, I saw something unexpected:
I saw a Brutus/Caesar situation (figuratively) with Pence and T. I think he publicly disagrees/contradicts T. I saw Pence wearing a laurel crown one arm upraised holding something (a torch?) the other arm extended thumb pointing down. I think he may make a move on T’s power and has the ability to decide his political fate. He has been biding his time.
No idea if this would really happen, but it was strange and not something that I would consciously consider probable.
Hahahaaa - ain't none of us gonna hoard that!!!! No way!!!! thanks for the laugh .. I needed it.
Today is tough day... it's rained daily for the past 14 days...some days with no a bit of sun breaking through...and .. this afternoon ? A possibility of severe thunderstorms -isolated tornadoes...something we don't take lightly here in tornado alley. Only consolation is if I am hit by a tornado no one can judge me for my housekeeping LOL because it tears things up do bad. I am having trouble with how many of our politicians who are younger and Kool-Aid drinkers - are talking more and more about .. leaving those of us 60 +.. out of the care "like in Italy".. for younger to go back to work... the economy is more important than saving lives and then Impotus spouting off about getting our great workers back to work, that we lose more lives to flu and car accidents....A big reason the economic stimulus hasn't been signed yet is the GOP was sneaking in cuts to Social Security..all at a time when 401k's and retirement investment accounts have been decimated by the historic losses in the face of this Pandemic... SMH.... I am hunkering down hard... and.. trying to avoid any media today... my brain/heart/soul needs the rest... I am feeling the weight of the grief of the Collective today. May all of us.. stay strong...."Hold, Hold,Hold" We are not alone in our Grief.
HMMM, well Pence and the cabinet can invoke the 25th amendment if T decrees something that would endanger the population thus deeming him unfit to serve....(like his idea to end social distancing?).