Coronavirus, Chapter 1

Do you remember those now cute, zombie apocalypse movies from the early 2000s?  Some are almost comical, with an rather unusual, farcical view of some sort of disease, wide-spread illness across the globe.  My personal favorite was "Warm Bodies", featuring Nicholas Hoult (The Beast in the X-Men First Class series). It utilizes minimal makeup for a 'zombie-light' look.  It works!

Link to IMdB page: 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588173/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt/

And although that movie was cute, at times sweet, back to the real world and planet Earth in April 2020.  We're now living through that pandemic outbreak with the Coronavirus, and the "man" at the top here in the United States is doing everything he can to minimize the gravity of the situation and the severity of the virus itself.  Pretty sure it won't become serious to him until it hits Ivanka or little Barron.  By then, yeah, it will be too late for them and the rest of us.

Oh, and those "stimulus" checks from the $2 trillion bill passed by Congress, you remember those checks.  $1200 to most individuals (myself included), and $2400 for most couples (as well as $500 per child dependent).  And although that sounds great and amazing that Congress finally came together on something, this is NOT a stimulus package. NO.  10 years ago in 2009 when "the black guy" as Trump calls him (the rest of us know him as the best American President, Barack Obama), when Obama was in office, that was a much needed stimulus to boost the economy.  

Now, in 2020, it's not money being used to "boost" the economy here, it's to keep people afloat, for the foreseeable future.  How long?  Who knows.  Could be weeks.  Could be months, but hopefully, NOT years.  At this moment, April 2nd, 6.6 million people are reported to have filed unemployment claims here in the U.S. That's astonishing!

UPDATE - As of today, 04/14/2020, over 25,000 people have died here in the United States, and almost 600,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the coronavirus.

As of April 10, 2020, according to models by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, it is estimated that 60,415 in the U.S. would die of the coronavirus by August, assuming that social distancing policies continue through May.  That is down from an 82,000 prediction just a few days ago. 
 
Further, Congress has decided to bail out potentially failing companies to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars -- airlines, hospitality chains, and others.  Seems like the CEOs and board members of those companies should be digging into their own coffers to pony-up saving their employees and their companies... NOT the government.  

Because the truth here is that the $2 trillion will not be the only resource we will require moving forward.  It's only a fraction.  A band-aid, if you will.

Trump's lack of leadership soon enough (January 2020) and denial and minimizing, have lead us to this point in history.  I mention those checks for $1200 and $2400 (the bulk of them) are NOT stimulus as they were in 2009.  Donald Trump's re-election campaign is pushing for HIS signature on those checks as a reminder to "all Americans" that HE alone can fix this, and HE alone can "make our lives better" by doing this, in hopes that this shady, questionable move will somehow help him get back into office for another 4 years.  

Coronavirus current outbreak map as of 04/02/2020

Coronavirus current outbreak map as of 04/02/2020

Pay attention, people.  NO, he does not deserve another 4 years to further ruin our government, our lives or the world at-large.  Do NOT fall for Trump's b.s. move here. 
To be clear, NO, Donald Trump didn't personally cause the virus, but his response, or lack thereof, has been slow and minimal.  "Let's wait and see what happens" is his go-to, signature response.

DON'T FALL FOR HIS B.S. -- PAY ATTENTION. 

CNN's online coronavirus outbreak worldwide map:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/