
After the last pandemic that
killed about 50,000,000 of our fellow citizens between 1918 and 1920, we turned
to automobiles and airplanes to travel.
Music changed to happier and more moving tones [Rhapsody in Blue]. The movies got bawdier and began talking to
us. Women got out of their corsets and brassieres
and began to talk back and win their place along with their vote.


Why am I thinking of these things
in this time when people should be thinking about loved ones? Or, perhaps envisioning a more positive
future? Or, maybe how we could cure the
world of this disease? The fact is it is easy for me to think this way. I am 72 years old. I do not have much of a future in the post-pandemic world. My life, for the most part, has been lived. I will not be the same, nor live
the same, in the post-COVID-19 world.
I have been locked down in
quarantine in my adopted country of Colombia since the morning of March
20, 2020. For you math whizzes out
there, that is 57 days as of 15 May 2020.
I am highly educated (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, History and
Business, respectively, along with graduate-level courses in Psychiatry and
Philosophy). I am highly intelligent
(though not the best scrivener). My
brain thinks clearly in terms of what affects human nature.


Not a great place to live, but I don’t care. I won’t be alive to see it. You chumps all decided that is where you wanted to be and you built it. Good for you. Give the people what they want I say. That is why it is called democracy. If you want a haircut or a gun in the middle of a viral pandemic, go for it. What business is it of mine to tell you how to live?

For the sake of discussion, let
us think about changing the USA . After all, it has been the dominant power in
the world for at least the last 80 years.
Maybe that will last after the pandemic, maybe not. But, let us think about what might happen.
Perhaps the people elect
occupants for the White House and the Senate and the House of Representatives who care about
people, not corporations and only themselves.
The people who voted for them get behind these new leaders and push them
to create a better place for people to live in peace and harmony in the USA and the
world.
Let us start with giving up war,
freeing up trillions of dollars better spent on people…food, shelter,
education, healthcare. Unless someone
from another nation crosses our borders and destroys a tower or mall or even a
single individual, we stay out of other countries militarily. If, however, 15 Saudi nationals destroy a
tower with airplanes, then Saudi nationals, sitting at home, will pay the
price. But, no more searching for oil
and treasure around the world.
Next, let us understand what
stopping war and building an economy creating cell phone apps means. People with skills like digging coal and rolling steel are no longer needed because there
is no need for the product or we have created robots to perform the tasks. We don’t need all these workers. We could kill them
off, perhaps with another pandemic. But that would really suck, don't you think? After all, who wants to tell someone their
grandmother or sister are not needed anymore.
Instead, let us give them enough money to live on, say $2,000 a month. Make it tax free. No more need for Medicaid or food stamps or unemployment insurance or welfare. Give people money for food and rent and leave them alone to care for themselves [America First].
Instead, let us give them enough money to live on, say $2,000 a month. Make it tax free. No more need for Medicaid or food stamps or unemployment insurance or welfare. Give people money for food and rent and leave them alone to care for themselves [America First].

For jobs, we will need people to
build roads and bridges and power plants and windmills and airports and
more. We will still need a military and
a government. Let us create a service-for-all mentality. Every citizen shall
be required to serve a minimum of two years in local, state or federal
government. Everyone must learn to work
with their fellow citizens and learn how to give to the community versus take
from the rest of us. Building bridges or
learning how to fly a military helicopter, all have a place. Perhaps even creating a hack-resistant
military or power structure is in your future.

The selfish should pass on from
this life quickly. Those who understand
they live in a world with others should prosper and grow. Think of it like the coral under the sea that
pollution killed. Get rid of the
pollution, cleanse the sea of its illness, and watch the coral regain color and
radiance.