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The Next Disaster is Happening Now
When all of this is over, and the pandemic is just a terrible blur in our rearview mirror, we’d like to think that everything will go right back to normal.
It won’t.
Even if the medical toll is less dire than we fear, the economic toll is going to change everything.
In spite of the sunny predictions coming from the White House, the economy is unlikely to come roaring back “like a rocket” and “stronger than ever.”
Economists predict that the length of the pandemic will determine the depth of the economic crash. They say that a long-lasting pandemic will shrink the global economy and may lead to a global recession or even a depression.
And, folks, this talk is not all about the stock market.
It’s a far more serious and terrifying issue that doesn’t seem to be getting any attention at the moment.
In the past two weeks, approximately 10 million people have lost their jobs. TEN MILLION. That means no income, no money for food, no money for rent or the mortgage.
And it means no health insurance.
As everybody knows, the US is the only developed country on the entire planet where a person’s ability to have health insurance is nearly always tied to their job. If you have a full-time job, you…
