‘worse than the great depression’

“Busi­ness ground to a halt dur­ing the pan­dem­ic lock­down in the spring of this year, and Amer­i­ca plunged into its first re­ces­sion in 11 years, putting an end to the longest eco­nom­ic ex­pan­sion in US his­to­ry and wip­ing out five years of eco­nom­ic gains in just a few months … The com­bi­na­tion of pub­lic health and eco­nom­ic crises is un­prece­dent­ed, and num­bers can­not ful­ly con­vey the hard­ships mil­lions of Amer­i­cans are facing.”
—An­neken Tappe, CNN Business

“‘Worse than the Great De­pres­sion’ was not the head­line Trump was hop­ing for … The pan­dem­ic, and the glob­al shut­down it pro­voked, are un­prece­dent­ed in the age of data. Nev­er be­fore has an epi­dem­ic of in­fec­tious dis­ease hit the mod­ern, in­ter­con­nect­ed world so severely.”
—David Von Drehele, Wash­ing­ton Post

 

**every clas­sic fail sound play­ing all at once**

People’s lives are more im­por­tant, but the rea­son I’m shar­ing this ar­ti­cle is be­cause here in the Unit­ed States, a whole lot of people’s lives are also (un­for­tu­nate­ly) linked to the health of the economy:

 

I love my town, so at the be­gin­ning of this thing, I gave my anx­i­ety a good run by con­stant­ly wor­ry­ing about all the places I love and the peo­ple I love who run them. But I’m only one per­son, so for as much as I can get take-out or bot­tle ser­vice or do­nate to go­fundme, it’s our fed­er­al government’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to ad­min­is­ter aid to the states.

That, in a nut­shell, is what they ex­ist to do. And re­al­iz­ing that all I could do was sup­port places when I can and hope for the best, I had to let it go.

Any­way, this is Trump’s mess and it wouldn’t have hap­pened if peo­ple hadn’t elect­ed a sex of­fend­er game show host with tapi­o­ca for a brain.

They want­ed change and they got it.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2020 Emi­ly Duchaine. Pic­tured: James N. Rosen­berg, Dies Irae (Oct 29), cropped, 1929, source; Clare Leighton, Bread­line, New York, cropped, 1932, source.

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