POLLYANNA POSES PROBLEMS

https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/butterfly-effect-the-unscientific-vaccine/

Okay, I don’t like negativity (that is, Pollyanna Karen doesn’t like negativity).

But, in my OZY.com newsletter, there was too much negativity not to comment.

NATIONALISM’S UGLY HEAD:

Many countries and many companies are working on COVID vaccines - and most are doing it in a vacuum. 

“Usually, medical researchers searching for a treatment or vaccine present their findings first to peer-reviewed scientific journals. Once the scientific community accepts those results as valid, researchers — or the companies they work for — approach regulators such as the Food and Drug Administration. After regulators are satisfied with the drug, vaccine, or device and approve it, companies mass-manufacture it for the market.”

But, this year, this virus is being developed mostly in secret.  Russia is testing its version - but hasn’t shared or published any results.  India wants its version of the COVID-19 vaccine available soon to extol around the world.  In the United States, President Trump wants his vaccine by mid-October - prior to election day. Other nations, getting billions of revenue from governmental sources, are also developing their vaccines in secret.

Where is the sharing of information?  Where is the joint testing of alpha and beta versions of the vaccine?  Will you trust a vaccine that has been rushed through all the hoops with possibly inadequate testing?  I can see the television ads in three years “Did you receive the COVID-19 vaccine in its early release.  It can cause paralysis of the colon and potential cancer.  Call the Smith Legal group at 1-800-BAD-STUFF now to be part of our lawsuit.”  Or, will the pressure to get the vaccine so vital that laws will be made that the pharmaceutical companies can not be sued?

Let's try this solution:  The many scientists, researchers, manufacturers that are looking at COVID-19 get together to share their ideas (on line).  Maybe one company has a solution that looks promising.  This is cutting across national boundaries, why should the vaccine be a nationalistic and exclusive project?  

CHECK YOUR SEWER!!!

https://www.wave3.com/2020/09/16/metro-sewers-reveal-spread-covid-new-way/

From Louisville, University of Louisville researchers have been checking sewers under the city and have found higher concentrations of COVID-19 in certain parts of town - or in certain parts of the sewers under the town.  

Does this mean that those who are sick with COVID-19 and it runs through the body system as human waste or vomit and that gets flushed down the toilet that those higher levels mean that part of town is more affected?  

THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

This part of the article says “millions of Americans faced unemployment or closed their businesses during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the wealth of U.S. billionaires grew by $845 billion — the latest sign that the fortunes of the few are completely untethered to the reality of the majority.” and “if income distribution had merely held steady in the decades since 1975, some $50 trillion would have gone to ordinary workers rather than the nation’s oligarchic leaders — enough to pay every working-class American an additional $1,144 a month. Expect income disparities to continue growing as the U.S. struggles to manage the coronavirus and restore normalcy to the economy. “ 

Hold it - since 1975, the billionaires are getting richer and the poor are getting poor?  And, now millions are out of work and those who live paycheck to paycheck and desperate!!  (Who knows, maybe some of those people are rioting about injustices in our system - and who could blame them!!!

SOMEDAY THIS WILL BECOME DUE!!!

“U.S. authorities are spending so much that European debt will become more appealing to investors, an economist told CNBC Monday.

“U.S. bonds — debt issued by the U.S. Treasury to fund government activities — are traditionally perceived as a safe asset. This means that those who buy U.S. government bonds will have stable returns in the future -- even if these are not very high -- and investors trust the U.S. government will pay that debt back.”

“However, that could change once the coronavirus pandemic is over.

“Debt in the U.S., public debt, is surging much, much more than what we see anywhere in Europe, so the comparison between buying a European bond or a U.S. bond will actually look more favorable in the future.,The U.S. Congressional Budget Office said in September that public debt is set to “rise sharply to 98% of GDP in 2020, compared to 79% at the end of 2019.”

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So, to help stabilize our economy, we are printing more money (public debt - that is the money the government borrows to help an ‘even keel’ is overwhelming our economy)!!!

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SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!
“We’ll just say it: Many of us are wondering whether the transfer of power, if one is facilitated by American voters, will go smoothly, or whether there will be fighting in the streets. It’s 2020, so anything’s possible …”

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If Biden wins, will Trump leave the White House gracefully?  

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Here is a scary thought for a duly elected government: 

“The president has declined to say whether he would accept the results of the election and has suggested that Democrats are conspiring to commit widespread election fraud to force him from the White House. If he does accept defeat, Trump may do his damnedest to guarantee that he faces no legal issues later. Wild idea: He might consider stepping down between November and January, allowing Vice President Mike Pence to briefly become president and pardon Trump for any and all investigations against him. This may not even be necessary as some scholars say Trump has the right to pardon himself.”

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Will the 2020 election cause riots in the streets?  Will neighbors rise up against neighbors?  Where will LOVE WIN?   

LOVE WILL WIN OVER HATE - I believe that - but, maybe not in my lifetime.  (Aside, in my “Read through the Bible in a Year”, I am in Revelations in the New Testament.  At the end of that period, LOVE WILL WIN - but it will be a ‘knockdown, drag-out fight’!!!

Hugs!!

Karen