https://www.cnet.com/news/san-francisco-bay-area-on-lockdown-over-coronavirus/
https://www.bing.com/covid
[PADA: It finally happened, the whole 7 million folks in the San Francisco Bay area are on a mandatory lockdown. No one is allowed to be outside except for doing essential errands, like getting groceries or taking a local walk. "Shelter in place for all residents for the next three weeks." It was already pretty quiet what with the airlines, hotels, tourist spots, busses, restaurants, cinemas, sports events and so on pretty much empty. No traffic jams at all for the past week, so people were already back pedaling.
One thing we noticed here is that the China container ships seem to be almost totally absent from the bay as well, and for the past few weeks. There was one smaller ship here at the docks last week, but that was about it. Almost no container trucks on the freeway either for the past 10 days. They laid off a bunch of container truck drivers, nothing to deliver.
So that is why the economics are getting hit so hard, the products we normally get from China to sell, just are not getting here for one reason or another. So there is already a shortage of some items like wedding dresses, pharmacy medications, medical supplies, car parts, electronics and so many other things, some of which are 95 percent made there. Bad move to be so dependent on such a complex process of making and shipping everything from across the globe to over here every day.
Anyway, this is good news and bad news.
The world needed a break from all the frantic and crazy madness of constant struggling in all the traffic, bus, train and so on, and all that so we can all run out and buy a bunch of China made big screen TV sets. People needed a chill pill somehow or other and maybe this is nature's way of forcing that upon them. This is going to make the air super clear and smog free too. And its going to save a few million gallons of gas getting burnt up every day.
The bad news is, many of the rank and file devotees are already struggling at lower end wage jobs, some are sales clerks and Uber drivers etc. and they are going to have a tough economic time if this extends on for too long. So its going to be especially hard on these vulnerable souls -- if its not fixed and soon. And there is no guarantee this temporary lull is going to fix things for the longer period scheme of things. Anyway, this is why Srila Prabhupada said we need our own farms, the materialistic culture is very artificial and topsy turvy, as we keep seeing in constant examples.
What can be done? We just have to roll with it, and depend on Krishna. And maybe that is what Krishna is trying to teach us, what with all this going on in the first place. We really are not the controllers of much of anything, and surrendering to Krishna is the only real process to get factual and lasting relief from the onslaught of the material world. Maybe that is what Krishna is trying to show us? OK so now will probably be a good time for me -- to get on working with some more of my music and art projects. "Make the best of a bad bargain." ys pd
https://www.bing.com/covid
[PADA: It finally happened, the whole 7 million folks in the San Francisco Bay area are on a mandatory lockdown. No one is allowed to be outside except for doing essential errands, like getting groceries or taking a local walk. "Shelter in place for all residents for the next three weeks." It was already pretty quiet what with the airlines, hotels, tourist spots, busses, restaurants, cinemas, sports events and so on pretty much empty. No traffic jams at all for the past week, so people were already back pedaling.
One thing we noticed here is that the China container ships seem to be almost totally absent from the bay as well, and for the past few weeks. There was one smaller ship here at the docks last week, but that was about it. Almost no container trucks on the freeway either for the past 10 days. They laid off a bunch of container truck drivers, nothing to deliver.
So that is why the economics are getting hit so hard, the products we normally get from China to sell, just are not getting here for one reason or another. So there is already a shortage of some items like wedding dresses, pharmacy medications, medical supplies, car parts, electronics and so many other things, some of which are 95 percent made there. Bad move to be so dependent on such a complex process of making and shipping everything from across the globe to over here every day.
Anyway, this is good news and bad news.
The world needed a break from all the frantic and crazy madness of constant struggling in all the traffic, bus, train and so on, and all that so we can all run out and buy a bunch of China made big screen TV sets. People needed a chill pill somehow or other and maybe this is nature's way of forcing that upon them. This is going to make the air super clear and smog free too. And its going to save a few million gallons of gas getting burnt up every day.
The bad news is, many of the rank and file devotees are already struggling at lower end wage jobs, some are sales clerks and Uber drivers etc. and they are going to have a tough economic time if this extends on for too long. So its going to be especially hard on these vulnerable souls -- if its not fixed and soon. And there is no guarantee this temporary lull is going to fix things for the longer period scheme of things. Anyway, this is why Srila Prabhupada said we need our own farms, the materialistic culture is very artificial and topsy turvy, as we keep seeing in constant examples.
What can be done? We just have to roll with it, and depend on Krishna. And maybe that is what Krishna is trying to teach us, what with all this going on in the first place. We really are not the controllers of much of anything, and surrendering to Krishna is the only real process to get factual and lasting relief from the onslaught of the material world. Maybe that is what Krishna is trying to show us? OK so now will probably be a good time for me -- to get on working with some more of my music and art projects. "Make the best of a bad bargain." ys pd
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