In Which I Abandon All Hope

So in the last two weeks, 10 million people, give or take, applied for unemployment. We will soon have a jobless rate that is double that of the Great Depression. Trump has also reluctantly conceded that a couple hundred thousand people will die from Covid-19. Since the hospitals will be overwhelmed, many more will die of normal diseases and accidents. World War II level mortality rates at the very least, because let's face it, a couple of hundred thousand is really lowballing it.And what will the US government, whose negligence contributed mightily to this unprecedented catastrophe, do to help us? We already know. It will go on TV nightly to tell us that it's doing an A-plus job. Imagine that 100 Challengers were blowing up on live TV every day, and that every night Richard Feynman stood silently next to Ronald Reagan while Reagan declared that if he wasn't president as many as 1,000 Challengers might be blowing up. But it's even worse, because this government is using its power to ensure that the states that didn't elect it will suffer more than the states that did.No, Trump hasn't started a nuclear war. But our economy has blown up on his watch and hundreds of thousands of people are dying. If this isn't the end of the American experiment, I don't know what is.And another thing (I know I said I was going to stop posting, but my buttons are really getting pushed today). Can we agree to have a moratorium on "if only HRC had been elected," "Obama was a corporate shill because he didn't enact Medicare 4 All," and "Joe Biden is a senile sexual offender who stole the election from Bernie" type remarks on Twitter for a while? I feel like I'm standing on the deck of the Titanic, trying to enjoy the band's rendition of "Nearer My God to Thee," and the guy next to me keeps saying, "the Captain really should have steered around that iceberg." I mean, I get it, but the ship is sinking. Maybe I should just stop looking at Twitter.