WhatsUpPup [none/use name]
I started homeschooling my kids when their public school closed. Theyre reading and doing math a grade above their current level. I have way more time at home with my wife, and I’m spending a lot of time working in the garden.
Oh, and the new fleet foxes album makes my heart soar.
It’s gonna be a great fall
I’ve managed to construct a life for my kids where advertising is largely absent from their lives. Their minds were blown the first time they saw a toy commercial.
I have family in Melbourne, Australia, where the government has instituted a massive and stringent lockdown. The civil liberty violations required to lockdown would never be possible here in the United States. In Melbourne they have forced people to stay in there homes 23 hours a day, they’re not allowed to travel more than a short distance from their house, state borders have been militarized. Fortunately the Australian people are compliant, I can’t imagine what the American government would have had to do in order to force compliance in stringent anti Covid measures.
I’ve thought a lot about this - the boomers have almost all their wealth tied up in their home equity. pretty soon they’ll need to cash out that home equity to fund their long term aged care. However if they flood the market, and millennials are still wearing economic concrete shoes, the boomers will be unable to get the prices they need to fund their long term aged care.
Enter hedge funds. All the big investment funds and hedge funds are gearing up their real estate funds. They are preparing to swoop in and bail out the boomers one last time by buying up the coming glut of residential real estate. They will become massive land lords. I’ve contacted my local government and planning body to discuss this, but they aren’t interested. No one is going to place limits of corporations buying residential real estate. This is going to be a fucking nightmare.
I know it’s just people trying to cope, but I’ve found the “2020 hate” laughable. I think people are going to really struggle in Q1 2021 when the realize there’s no end in sight. I’ve taken the mindset that this is a 5-8 year long crisis. Physicians still fundamentally do not under this virus. Expecting a vaccine in the next 18 months is delusional. We should be moving forward with the understanding that an effective vaccine is an “IF” not a “when” statement.
Compound this with worsening economic prospects, a change in government that has deluded folks into thinking anything will get better, and we have a recipe for societal wide pain. I’ve opened up a new cupboard in my house to expand my deep pantry. I’ve bought all my seeds for my garden next year. Next month I’ll be buying a 6 month supply of our prescription meds. Fuck it all.