The looming recession

Cargill plant in Alberta is partially or completely shut down from Covid19 infecting its workers. They produce 40% of Canada’s pork and beef.

Prices are expected to go up as well as shortages.

The dictatorship that is coming.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. Rafael Correa

Asteroid impacts.
Global Warming.
The Class Divide.
Alien Invasion.

Just heard this. Crude oil is selling at negative.

Fascism as an ideology has been growing rapidly across the planet, and we are now firmly in its grip. It’s not what’s in the news which should be alarming you, but what isn’t. For example, during this pandemic the majority of people dying are the old and the sick – and no one cares. In most places people are not just sighing with relief, but are ready to start reopening now that they know it’s only immunocomprised sick people and the warehoused old in care homes who are dying in large numbers. The subtext is that the old and the disabled are unimportant, the formal adoption of which was marked the start of the Nazi regime.

We’ve seen rising backlash against the poor, the homeless, and the disabled, and in most places they’re being quietly encouraged to die through neglect and the slow strangulation of resources. Here in Ontario, the provincial Conservative government had a document leak which told hospitals that if they have a choice about who gets a ventilator, they are to give it to an otherwise healthy person rather than someone who is disabled; only the disabled community cares, and the media has barely reported it.

The reason people should be concerned is that history tells us it only starts with the poor, the sick, and the old. The number of people thrown under the wheels of the bus begins to slowly increase: communists, anarchists, trade unionists, roma, jews, and so on, boiling the frog until death squads are roaming the streets freely. But history also tells me that no one will care until they find themselves on the wrong side of the boot, and by then it will be too late.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Climate change is the number one problem

The attribution (that @SmashTheState forgot) for “First they came…” goes To Martin Niemöller.

https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/

Hurricane season

I heard a report that, due to overfishing and climate change, within 50 years, there will be no edible fish left in the oceans.

The aging electrical grid and it’s vulnerability to solar flares.
That’s all I’ve got

@lucillelucillelucille Great answer! We should invest in Faraday cages for sensitive electronics before the next solar flare. I will write my member of Parliament after the Covid19 stuff is over about solar flare preparadence.

There are patterns in History and this article explains the effects of a Pandemic..last paragraph compare Covid to Spanish Flu in 1918 effects.

Basically the economy will tank ( possible depression) unless steps are taken as outlined in this article to offset.
So pay down your debt load since it has the highest interest rates
( credit cards) then put some into a savings account. (emergency fund).

I found this article to be very interesting.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/pandemic-economy-lessons-1918-flu/

A recession is widespread economic decline that lasts for at least six months.

A depression is a more severe decline that lasts for several years.

For example, a recession lasts for 18 months, while the most recent depression lasted for a decade.

There have been 33 recessions since 1854.

Recession vs Depression: Definition, Difference – The Balancewww.thebalance.com › GDP and Growth › Recessions

Celine Dion’s new album?

Monkey Pox sounds scary enough NSFW images .