17 December

Al Capone (yes, the gangster) ran a free soup kitchen for the unemployed in the 1930s (in the pic). It fed several thousand unemployed people 3 times a day. When people can't eat or shelter without a job, you have the hijacking of society by the Economy. They also can't shelter from a virus, and you therefore get pandemics. A resilient society should be able to shut down for an extended period, if needed, without dramatic damage. This can all be planned for, in fact the military do it all the time for their operations. Instead we have individuals and businesses who collapse inside weeks, and the obscenity of people being forced to work with a lethal virus in circulation, just to keep food on the table. It's the whole idea of the Economy that needs to be weeded out of our collective minds.