Covid 19 as a crisis of realization
Think - under the banalities hawked around by politicians and the press - why should a highly contagious virus cause such economic disruption? If we were living in a what we might call a primitive society and economy, if people had to stay at home for the duration, it would not make that much difference; so long as a sufficient number of workers were able to continue to provide the basic necessities of life there would be no economic melt-down. But we don’t live in a primitive society. If we aren’t able to go to work, we won’t have the cash to buy the goods and services provided by all the other people who would need to go to work, or they themselves wouldn’t have the cash to buy what we ourselves produce, and so on and so forth. We wouldn’t have the money to pay the rent, so the landlord that bought the property to let wouldn’t be able to pay the mortgage, and so on and so forth. We are all in this merry go round in which we are not so much providing goods and services that we (and o