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Chris Lowry

May 19, 2026

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I try hard not to be a skeptic

And it is hard…

But sometimes I wonder

Do you remember in 2020 when some weird virus popped up on the collective radar

And we shut the country down for 2 weeks to “slow the spread”

Then those two weeks turned into about six months

The government was worried about “the economy”

Rightly so, since the government put millions of people out of work

So the Fed pumped trillions of dollars out to consumers and businesses

Technically, if you chase the money, most of those trillions went to big business

Even though consumers make up 70% of the economy

Still, Big Business was hit hard too…

Except people kept buying stuff

More stuff now that they were home all day and shifting their buying to online

And after it was all over, we were left with a problem

Supply chains that had been shut down to slow the spread meant fewer goods were reaching shelves

Low supply and high demand mean one thing to those Big Business guys

Raise prices!

So they did and set a new norm for what people were willing to spend on things

Then we figured out that we didn’t really need to stay shut down so we opened back up

Which created more demand

And people were pissed anyway at how fast they were cut from their jobs

And pissed at higher prices and pissed that the Fed stopped sending out checks

And pissed because some of their small business owning friends got all sorts of loans and grants and paycheck protection

But all that left a lot of money in the system

Which combined with supply and demand, just made it tougher to buy things

Everything cost more

And that hasn’t really gone away since

Prices are up

People are still kinda pissed

Plus, there’s still a lot of money out there, which keeps prices high

You’ve heard it called inflation

Part of that problem is the Fed pumped so much money into the economy

Now, we’re facing another kind of crisis

Prices are spiraling up

Again

Gas is headed to $5 a gallon by summer

Which means Big Business is gonna pass that cost onto the consumer

And it sounds counter intuitive when I hear solutions

Because one of them is “Crash the economy.”

That’s one way to bring prices back in line and out of the stratosphere

If we had another good virus that could shut everything down for two weeks, we’d get a glut of oil on the market

And we’d be able to extract a couple trillion dollars from the circulating money

But people would suffer and it might cause a “depression” and the only way out of that that the powers that be can see

Is a big world war

Money goes to defense, a lot of the population is killed in the fighting, and post war recovery usually signals some good times

Except for those who die or starve or are bombed or have to live in the aftermath of destruction

There is another way though

Which is growing the economy through AI assistance

But Big Business is looking at AI to replace workers, and not 10X their production

We can’t blame them

There job is to make money for their company and that’s the only way they’ll earn their million dollar bonus and keep the board of directors happy

If you offered me a million bucks to fire a thousand folks,

I’d be very much, “The organization is looking to make a change.”

Left, right, and down the middle meeting a person every five minutes

Or just one email that’s BCC everybody

I think 99% of the folks giving that choice would do the same

Hence all the lay off’s right now

Because we can do more with less

The question isn’t one of can we though, it’s one of will we

Hence my skepticism about the announcment of a new deadly virus

And when folks weren’t scared enough of the cruise ship rats

They went ahead and trotted out Ebola again

Now I don’t doubt that there are virus plagues ready to sweep any and every nation

People are gross

Just watch in a public restroom and you quickly learn just how gross they are

But what if these virus alerts are just world leaders pulling pages from a playbook trying to control the chaos right now?

By creating more chaos

It might be Mother Nature doing the dirty work, but I’m skeptical it might be more man made chaos than anything

And I’m getting bored with it:

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