Ron opines.

Sure quiet out there this mornin. No cars drivin around . . . nobody at the Tom Thumb gettin coffee ‘n’ donuts . . . no joggers . . . no air movin, just some thin clouds and an anemic half moon. Great for thinkin while strollin with Dawg.

Now, I realize that since DJT mentioned the possibility of more people dying by suicide because of the coughing virus than by the disease itself, the mainstream media will pooh-pooh the idea and insist that it won’t happen because . . . well, just because.

What’s happened here is that about 300 million people have been placed on house arrest for lengthy periods which will likely get even longer. Thousands, probably tens of thousands, and maybe even hundreds of thousands of small businesses either have already shut down permanently or will do so later this year.

About 10 million people who were until recently employed and made financial commitments based on that employment now find themselves unemployed without much hope of their jobs coming back any time soon.

Children are out of school and hanging around the house, full of energy but with nothing to do, placing great mental and economic strain on parents, especially single mothers who may still be working but can’t afford child care or babysitting fees.

Hoarders are grabbing merchandise off store shelves before some people can even get TO the stores, and certain food items are beginning to be hard to find along with disinfectant and household sanitation products.

Entertainment diversions, such as sports events, which would relieve some of the angst and tension in people trapped in their homes with nothing to do, have been cancelled, and travel outside the residence for anything other than food and medicine is either restricted or banned.

Yeah . . . that’s the sure-fire formula for anxiety, which is a major factor in the suicide rate. Historically, and using the Great Depression as the best example, a strong and undeniable link between unemployment and suicide is more than obvious.

Pretty clear to me that a whole lotta people are gonna die as a result of the containment efforts rather than from the disease itself, which right now is less than 2% mortality range for anyone under 65 with no serious health problems otherwise.

Some people will see their life savings dry up like spilt milk on a hot sidewalk and their retirement porfolios shrink like men’s boners when they see fotos of Mad Maxine or SanFranShitShow Nan or Her Rotten Heinous.

There’ll be bankruptcies, domestic violence, strokes, coronaries, accidents, and suicides galore. And you can bet that AntiFa, Planned Parenthood, the DNC, Black Lives Matter, and the Screen Actors’ Guild will wind up providing precisely ZERO assistance to blacks, latinos, the unemployed, health-care workers, or anybody else.

We will, however, come out of it with more national debt than even DingleBarry could scrounge up and a whole tax season with virtually no revenues from anyone except the very rich, who will busily buy up all the prime stocks and bonds people will be forced to sell at a loss just to buy food.

We’ll also discover the true color of a lotta people’s hair, except entertainers, of course, and who are our true friends, which WON’T include China or the WHO or the UN or DNC. In fact, the WHO and the UN are already criticizing the Trump administration for incompetent handling of a situation which he got a firm grip on MUCH earlier than his arrogant predecessor would have.

Quid Pro Joe Biden and Kameltoe Harris and Squinty Joe Scarborough and the MadCow and the pie-faced cueball Stelter have been hammering away at DJT for weeks now, offering advice on what he SHOULD have done, almost all of which is precisely what he DID fargin do.

Unsurprisingly, Schiff and Pelosi are forming committees to investigate Trump’s incompetent handling of the situation which allowed it to become a crisis, and to look into his pharmaceutical holdings to see if he’s made any profits from touting the anti-malarial drug cocktail which by all accounts is actually saving lives.

Yeah, I think he’s right . . . we’re gonna see more people die in the US from unintended conditions caused by the virus than by the disease itself, cardiac, manslaughter, and suicide.

Trump being impeached by people such as Nadler and Schiff and Waters and Pelosi and Green is very much like George Washington being called a traitor by a dissolute king deep in third-stage syphilis dementia.

Trump’s problem is not incompetence, or unpreparedness, or unconventional approaches to management . . . it’s just bad luck by being in charge during a year written by Stephen King. Either that or his failure to forward that e-mail to 10 other people.