Kimberly Steele

There are some folks predicting a total implosion of the American economy around that time. If that happens, color me not shocked. Look at our economy of building new Costcos and mini-malls sometimes literally next door or across the street from huge empty buildings and tell me that can last. I drive through a hellscape of abandoned office parks and vacant FOR LEASE stores every day on the way to work. I am a private music teacher. I was the only sane adult in these kids lives before the virus and now it's 10x worse. Every day, an army of miserable executives go off to work jobs they hate with people they cannot stand so they can raise children in overlarge, over-mortgaged, overtaxed homes. They don't know how to grow a damn tomato, or how to fix a leaky pipe, or how to pick a lock. Often they can't even manage to cook a meal or clean their own house. They hire everything done. They were the first to line up for the shots, of course, because they do what the nice man and lady on TV tells them to do. If there is any form of long economic setback that makes them even slightly hungry at night, a good quarter of them will commit suicide.