I've been making some flippant and angry responses in this thread and I think I'm going to stop doing that, because it's not helpful. I'm just so angry at my country. I'm angry at the leadership for being inept and pathetic, which isn't surprising given the people in charge. But worst of all, I'm angry at the people. I'm angry at my inlaws for not taking it seriously, at my FIL in particular for not closing his office when he should have, at my neighbors for not keeping social distance like they should, at all the people who think this whole thing doesn't apply to them and is no big deal. I'm angry that corporations are going to get bailed out and all these 3 million people that got laid off are going to get fucked somehow and nobody really cares and nobody will do anything because America prizes big business and profit over human beings every single time. I'm angry that our country is so absurdly fragile that a 2-3 week shutdown (it's only been that long) causes immense financial insanity and mass layoffs. I'm angry that we have no social safety net to help all the people that are going to be hurt by this in the long run. I'm angry that people STILL downplay the virus and want to act like human lives are less important because they're old people. I'm angry that people act like this won't effect the young just as much. I'm angry that we're more worried about stocks and the economy than we are about the possibility of millions infected and hundreds of thousands or millions dying. I'm angry we can't produce enough ventilators and masks because our leadership is too weak to make it happen, so more people will needlessly die, and more healthcare professionals will get sick and die, and that's a huge travesty. I'm angry that America looks like a joke compared to every other nation, because we are, we are a joke, we failed at producing a simple testing kit because we're so arrogant we couldn't use the one provided by the WHO. I'm angry we didn't implement mass testing and distancing and stay at home orders when it would've mattered, and instead waited, downplayed, ignored, and basically pretended like America is so amazing it couldn't possibly happen here. And yet here we are, it's happening here, and it's only going to get worse. I hope it doesn't, but the numbers are pretty grim. And I'm angry at the people who don't see how flawed and fucked up our country is, how broken our culture is, how pathetic our people are, and how weak and ineffectual our leadership has been. The greatest generation is either dead or dying and what we're left with is pretty sad. Anyway, I'm angry. Sorry for the rant.
