Trying to make sense of all this

I think that we are going through something very different than anything that happenedin the 20th Century.

I have tried to compare this to the Great Depression but that's really not appropriate. I have tried to compare it to World war II but that's not appropriate either.

Why?

Because we were rolling along fine and unemployment was low and things economically and job wise at least were fine and then bang!

All of a sudden 1/2 of more of the businesses in the U.S. were forced to shut down especially restaurants and bars and entertainers couldn't perform anywhere except on Zoom online or something like that. Airlines are at maybe 4% of their normal business and can't find places to park their planes because they will tend to rust away most places it rains or snows a lot if they aren't flown all the time. So, places like Lancaster or Arizona or the Deserts of Australia is where they have to put those planes.

I look up from my back yard hot tub and there are about 95% less planes in the sky and no jet trails at all when I climb into my hot tub and the sky is clear enough to see them (no clouds or fog).

Recently, I thought something was wrong and it was the fact that it was so quiet it was like it was 150 years ago or something where all I can hear is the birds or a gardener or tree trimmers or 1 to 3 times a day fire engines or ambulances and that's about it.

So, it is the quiet where you can even hear hummingbird wings when they fly past you on the way to a hummingbird feeder or you can hear bumblebees pollinating our Ceanothus bushes that are very blue and beautiful right now.

So,  it is more like living in a park in a way it never was before here living at the beach because tourists aren't here any more just locals.

So, like I said I'm trying to make sense of all this in a way that works for me.

The world likely will never be the same as it once was.

It's sort of like it was a program on TV that when you turn the TV off it's gone forever like many eras of my life like the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the 20 teens. They are all gone now and it's pretty surrealistic because no one knows exactly where all this is going.

And I'm not sure studying the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is very helpful because this is the first really really big pandemic of my lifetime where millions are likely to die of coronavirus or starvation around the world before all this is over.

So, it's sort of like looking at a series of cascading crises that Americans especially aren't prepared for after living in a virtual Disneyland for at least since World War II.

Most countries have had millions that have died from starvation or killed in war (20 million died in Russia in World War II) for example. But, we haven't had anything like this since 1918 where millions died around the world in a pandemic and there wasn't the level of technology then.

So, Good Luck World!

We hope you are still here in some ways we can relate to 5 or 10 years from now!

By God's Grace