Day 27: 2020 Pandemic. Looking to Italy and History For Our Immediate Future. Food, Summer.

7 April 2020 (imported to correct acount)

The picture is of volunteers standing outside a medical center in Italy. They’re holding bags of food to hand out to those less fortunate.

Italy has been in lockdown over a month now after bungling early warnings of COVID-19. If we want to get an idea where we’re headed, let’s see where they are, even as a lockdown STILL ripples across our country and our Federal response is rife with graft and profiteering and inefficiency.

In Italy, high unemployment is having a strong effect along with inadequate government support with many unemployed, especially seasonal and gig workers falling into the gaps of getting no support. Sound familiar? Right now people here aren’t hungry or desperate but they are getting that way in Italy. Community support groups are helping, but they have a more homogeneous population than we do and don’t have a government that is actively pitting citizens against each other.

Crime is on the rise. People are going hungry and many are relying on handouts to eat. Hungry people are dangerous people.

In many ways, we are going to be worse off than Italy.