Killing the Economy, and Trump, Microscopically

THE CORONA VIRUS was so named because under a microscope the wee beastie has spikes, and resembles a king's crown, "corona" being the Latin word for "crown". Never underestimate the human capacity, or necessity, of bringing a bit of sardonic humor to the table even, or especially under the worst of circumstances. Since Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope in the early seventeenth century, about the time the telescope was invented, the micro world, unlike the macro, has revealed to us an endless abundance of lifeforms, and fairly recently we have learned that evolution happens fast in the fastness of smallness; the varieties of life keep on coming. Its not a matter of if, but of when, the Corona bug spreads around the world, taking its toll, as once again homo sapien sapiens pays its fealty to the miniature biosphere. Its happened before, most notably with the recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague, and it will happen again, this time, next time, and the time after that, until, finally, the world of human domination succumbs to the far better equipped, prepared, and versatile realm of the micro biological. Its as inevitable as the next big asteroid impact. Wave after wave of tiny creatures will infiltrate our bodies, epidemic after pandemic, causing havoc, death, and societal chaos, well into the future, what there might be of it, just as they have in the past, all the way back to Adam, or amoeba, whichever came first. In short we are doomed to suffer the slings and arrows of spiky ugly little things, attacking us by the trillion. Some or most of us will survive, this time. The economy, the most fragile of man's fabrications, will not. Already our vaunted, arrogant stock market, realm of the rich and powerful, is taking a pummeling, its downward spiral predicated not on anything actual, but on the fear of things to come, not on the disease, but, as is usually the case, upon our preparations for the pandemic; the cure is worse than the disease, as we shutter ourselves from each other's contagion, and shut down our supply lines, production, and commerce as an unintended side effect, with unintended but unavoidable, financially disastrous consequences. In the past four days alone nearly two trillion dollars have vanished from our portfolios, with more, much more, to come. And make no mistake; the blame for this, all of it, belongs squarely in the orange rat's nest of none other than Donald J. Trump, criminal at large. Why the hell not? How can it be otherwise? Is he not solely responsible for the supposedly booming economy he actually inherited from Barack Hussein Obama? Well, the way it works, is, you take the credit, you get the blame. Forget that no American president is ever solely responsible for anything, including the economy. Trump is different. By his own proclamation, he alone has brought America to prosperity, has made America great again. Now, as the house of cards he has built crumbles and collapses, the house which houses only the wealthy and leaves hundreds of millions of unwashed, un-portfoliod masses outside his the gated community, he gets the blame, lock, stock , and virus, even though he will inevitably choose to assign it elsewhere, anywhere. Not to worry, There are plenty of us still around, not yet bed ridden, to assign it for him, to him.