Looking outward
By Josh Resnek
This coronavirus epidemic/pandemic and its immediate fall-out will last a long time.
There is no way it wont, despite everyone wanting to get the country’s economy up and running again.
We are in for a very difficult social and economic period. We are at the beginning of it right now.
Whether you are oblivious to this climactic moment when our society hangs in the balance, or whether you are at home shivering with fear about the uncertainties of the future, this is for sure: all our bubbles have burst.
This moment in our lives is historic and dangerous, fraught with perils of every kind, but powered mainly by a deadly virus, unprecedented but similar to catastrophes that have befallen mankind throughout the course of known history since the beginning of time.
Here is what’s coming in the short term.
In fact, the moment is upon us and devouring us as this is being written.
Thousands of Everett residents are already without jobs, without businesses, without savings accounts and without health insurance in a very short time.
Cash disappears at a much more rapid rate than it multiplies.
This closedown is a monster movie featuring, a Frankenstein, a Godzilla and King Kong all put together with a huge cast of flesh eating Zombies.
No matter who you are, from the richest man or woman in Everett, to the poorest, your business, your property, your home, your bank account, your retirement and IRA, everything about your economic life has undergone a seismic event.
