Lies, damned lies and COVID
Mursenary has a point: we know the demographic at risk and progression. We know that governments tell whoppers, use propaganda and silence dissent by secrecy laws, defamation and so on according to whatever agenda and priorities they have. The CPI figures that exclude housing costs and "jobs" statistics are utter BS. Want some fun? Just go to you tube and looks at say Stalin comes to Berlin movie (hilarious), British Pathe and in the USA Corenet Instructional. Same mass brainwashing. Cultural Revolution is also funny and slapstick, but the consequences tragic. Same with the anti semitic BS. Fox News. And many/most lefty media and virtue signalling. The masses are pretty gullible and the politicians know it and exploit it.
Regardless of morality, COVID is two things, overwhelming hospital beds / staff and the nasty choice of rationing, the old 65+ or the 20 year old and that in turn is traded off against the economy and who controls it. Right now, financial services is about 40% GDP of major western economies and is dominated by baby boomers who own the loot and pay lobbyists heavily to keep the status quo. The politicians make noises but nothing to seriously change the carve up are reining in finance to a tiny single digit GDP. The same baby boomers control the COVID narrative out of rational self interest, albeit selfish. This is a a really big driver. I make no comment in the fairness, just the actual power dynamic.
To get really sick you basically need to be 65+ and / or obese (usual leakages and exceptions). Policy makers are copying each other with a dick size statistics war / propaganda. What they apparently don't realize is that this has permanently revolutionized the workplace and urban centres with remote work with huge impact on asset prices. My real worry is we are entering into a vaccine subscription model like a new smartphone every year / car or operating system that will dictate participation in border crossings etc. The economic dislocation is bad enough.
Let's hope our clubs will survive. Oase is probably gathering dust and deserted. Before it was full of life and girls being pounded by men in their prime enjoying the sexual summit and deep primal urge. Lots of chilled guys, grinning like kids. I cannot wait until Thailand opens or Deutschland. The soft touch of beautiful young women smiling and.