we have surpassed the number of unemployed people during the peak of the great depression. it will easily rise to 37 million by the end of the month. the recession is over. welcome to the superior depression or great depression 2.
i estimate that 150K americans will die in 2020 as a side effect of this mildly contagious virus. yet 22 million are out of work and countless lives will be economically devastated and permanently destroyed in 2020. in 10 years, 250K americans will have died of complications from the virus. yet i predict by then 680K — above and beyond the total for the period of 340K following the existing 34K annual total — will have died of suicide. let me repeat that for emphasis: suicide alone will kill nearly 3 times the number of americans. the number of americans — above the existing annual totals — for deaths related to domestic violence, poverty, gun violence, heart disease, diabetes, strokes, infant mortality (i.e., stress related deaths and deaths related to poor economic conditions) — will likewise skyrocket. they seem likely to double.
so — again — i hope it was worth it.