CORONA West Faces "Social Bomb" As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest

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West Faces "Social Bomb" As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest

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The next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a flare-up of social unrest across major Western cities as millions have lost their jobs, economies have crashed into depressions, and the military is being called up to maintain order.
The Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that riots could be imminent in low-income neighborhoods as extreme wealth inequality has left households unprepared and without a cash buffer to weather the economic downturn.
As we've noted before, many Western households were already stretched thin before the shutdowns began, with little savings, insurmountable debts, and the lack of access to proper healthcare. Now, these folks, which many have been laid off from gig-economy and service sector jobs, have zero income and could be emotionally motivated to hit the streets and protest.
IFRC president Francesco Rocca warned on Friday during a press conference that social unrest could be imminent in Italy, reported Reuters.
"We have a lot of people who are living very marginalized, in the so-called black hole of society... In the most difficult neighborhoods of the biggest cities, I am afraid that in a few weeks, we will have social problems," Rocca said.
"This is a social bomb that can explode at any moment, because they don't have any way to have an income," he said, whose agency deploys volunteers across Europe, including in Italy, Spain, and France.
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He warned that the largest Western cities have only a 'few weeks' before social unrest is seen.
As for the US, President Trump has been deploying National Guard units across the country to fight the virus, or a perfect cover to prepare for Martial law-style shutdowns across some areas where the virus is hard-hitting.
President Trump, on Saturday afternoon, said he is considering a quarantine in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area, which would likely be enforced by the military to some degree.
We have noted that National Guard armored vehicles have already been spotted across the country and have suggested that troops are being positioned around major US metros to maintain order if social unrest was seen in low-income neighborhoods.
The Western world is on the brink of turmoil. The dominos are already falling with crashing economies in Europe and the US, triggering massive job losses that could soon lead to the unraveling of social fabric.
Governments offering universal basic income as a solution to keep their citizens content won't work this time. The West is headed for a period of instability, not just economically, but socially.
And now it all makes sense why Americans are rushing to gun stores…

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Kathy in FL

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People have been begging for shut downs and the gov to ride in to their rescue. They’ve whined for weeks that the JBTs boots weren’t on their necks hard enough. Please sir, we need more.

Now they see what they get and they complain abt that too. Well this what happens when you invite the gov up your bum.
 
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MinnesotaSmith

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Of course UBI won't work, if no one is making anything! If you need food, electricity, running water, etc., and all you have is paper that buys insufficient and ever-lessening amounts of those, you're in deep kaka, no matter how "rich" you are according to a statistics-torturing government office.
 
Dobbin

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The article is accurate in that this may be an "early & warm" spring.

"Sporty" some have euphemistically termed it.

I hope you have taken steps to defend your livestock & chattel.

Dobbin
 
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BUBBAHOTEPT said:
I don't hear regular folks calling for shutdowns at all, but the main stream media sure seems to be along with the usual suspects....
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There is supposed to be some poll floating around claiming 80%+ support it. But that is a week old and under our circumstances, a week is almost an eternity. Unless somebody pulls out a silver bullet that solves this problem, we are going to be ripe for a Leader about Oct 1.
 
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Troke said:
There is supposed to be some poll floating around claiming 80%+ support it. But that is a week old and under our circumstances, a week is almost an eternity. Unless somebody pulls out a silver bullet that solves this problem, we are going to be ripe for a Leader about Oct 1.
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October?!? A national lockdown would put tens of millions of people newly living on the streets by July. We do NOT have that long to either find a cure or accept that the Social Security set is going to take a serious hit, if not quite like gays with AIDS back in the 80s.
 
CaryC

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I just thought it was interesting.

We don't live in a predominately "Christian" country anymore, where love thy neighbor - do undo others as you would have them do unto you, was a major philosophy of society.

So I was wondering if/when those who are without, start to "claim" what is theirs by looting and taking it. I noted Portland, earlier.

'Course it would be dangerous to go about looting IMHO when the virus is out in the wild, waiting on victims, but as we have seen people are stupid.

So my wondering has turned to: will this be the next step to break our society?
 
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Dennis Olson said:
So this article is actually discussing muzloids in Europe and ghetto-scum in the US. The premise is flawed: neither group holds jobs or participates in their respective societies. They’re just gibsmedats.
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That was my instant thought! Damned few in the "neighborhoods" they are discussing ever had a job in the first place! If they riot, it's only because they think the cops are busy elsewhere (or will be reluctant to engage, either due to orders or concerns about the virus), and they see the opportunity for "free stuff".

The actual working poor are too busy trying to figure out how to feed their families, and don't see any sense in burning down nearby stores or their own neighborhoods.

Summerthyme
 
Kathy in FL

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CaryC said:
I just thought it was interesting.

We don't live in a predominately "Christian" country anymore, where love thy neighbor - do undo others as you would have them do unto you, was a major philosophy of society.

So I was wondering if/when those who are without, start to "claim" what is theirs by looting and taking it. I noted Portland, earlier.

'Course it would be dangerous to go about looting IMHO when the virus is out in the wild, waiting on victims, but as we have seen people are stupid.

So my wondering has turned to: will this be the next step to break our society?
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Those rioting will be in the lowest CFRs. Instead of utilizing that demographic to build herd immunity for everyone else, they will now use their low CFR to put fear in the hearts of those they could have protected.
 
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summerthyme said:
That was my instant thought! Damned few in the "neighborhoods" they are discussing ever had a job in the first place! If they riot, it's only because they think the cops are busy elsewhere (or will be reluctant to engage, either due to orders or concerns about the virus), and they see the opportu it for "free stuff".

The actual working poor are too busy trying to figure out how to feed their families, and don't see any sense in burning down nearby stores or their own neighborhoods.

Summerthyme
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LA riots (was it 1993?) nation wide. Meh, one way to get new housing. To go with the new clothes, and TV sets.
 
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summerthyme said:
That was my instant thought! Damned few in the "neighborhoods" they are discussing ever had a job in the first place! If they riot, it's only because they think the cops are busy elsewhere (or will be reluctant to engage, either due to orders or concerns about the virus), and they see the opportu it for "free stuff".

The actual working poor are too busy trying to figure out how to feed their families, and don't see any sense in burning down nearby stores or their own neighborhoods.

Summerthyme
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Reminds me of the thread about Chicago and San Francisco boarding up retail stores. While the working class is facing total loss and financial ruin, ghetto dwellers are still enjoying paid housing, paid utilities, and pre-paid WIC cards. Yet, gov. payouts are no longer enough to keep gibsmedats from rioting. The violence they threaten the rest of us with was never about poverty.
 
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CaryC said:
LA riots (was it 1993?) nation wide. Meh, one way to get new housing. To go with the new clothes, and TV sets.
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Not if the nation is too broke to build the worthless new huts, or no longer sufficiently guilted about them BEING worthless to be bothered about worrying if they've got more than plastic sheeting to keep the rain off.
 
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Troke said:
There is supposed to be some poll floating around claiming 80%+ support it. But that is a week old and under our circumstances, a week is almost an eternity. Unless somebody pulls out a silver bullet that solves this problem, we are going to be ripe for a Leader about Oct 1.
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Polls ...LOL.
 
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MinnesotaSmith said:
Not if the nation is too broke to build the worthless new huts, or no longer sufficiently guilted about them BEING worthless to be bothered about worrying if they've got more than plastic sheeting to keep the rain off.
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You may have a point, but I don't think people who burn their own neighborhoods down are thinking that far ahead.
 
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summerthyme said:
That was my instant thought! Damned few in the "neighborhoods" they are discussing ever had a job in the first place! If they riot, it's only because they think the cops are busy elsewhere (or will be reluctant to engage, either due to orders or concerns about the virus), and they see the opportunity for "free stuff".

The actual working poor are too busy trying to figure out how to feed their families, and don't see any sense in burning down nearby stores or their own neighborhoods.

Summerthyme
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What do you think will happen when their EBT cards still function but there's nothing left on the shelves?
 
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Dennis Olson said:
So this article is actually discussing muzloids in Europe and ghetto-scum in the US. The premise is flawed: neither group holds jobs or participates in their respective societies. They’re just gibsmedats.
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Just like the monkeys in the video, and the rats in New Orleans, without the EARNERS out and about to mug, pickpocket, etc and the stores closed for easy theft, they don't have any way for an "income". Without preying on the EARNERS, they are too broke to buy the drugs etc.

WHAT? You expect them to survive on the multiple handouts the .gov steals from earners and gives to them to do nothing?
 
Infoscout

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I disagree with the article as it pertains to the US (I can’t speak for Europe), the middle class in the US has been arming itself quite rapidly, and the political patience for any societal chaos is going to be very minimal if at all, if the specific neighborhoods become chaotic, and they try to spread stupidity, it will be met with cold hard steel. My prediction is more citizens will be trained and incorporated into volunteer police units or reserve units for regional law and order as more and more possibly become sick. This would be very different in NY or California, but especially in the South.
 
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Now add into the OP the "Antifa" types and those of all races that riot, burn, pillage just to join something, to feel something, to empower themselves and whatever cause they've been bought for lately.
 
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MinnesotaSmith said:
Of course UBI won't work, if no one is making anything! If you need food, electricity, running water, etc., and all you have is paper that buys insufficient and ever-lessening amounts of those, you're in deep kaka, no matter how "rich" you are according to a statistics-torturing government office.
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The question I never get an answer too is "say you have some of that shiny stuff. Just what are you supposed to do with it when all the shiny stuff shops are closed and you are quarantined in your house.? Just wondered about it? Can use that paper stuff shopping online.
 
Nowski

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Faroe said:
Reminds me of the thread about Chicago and San Francisco boarding up retail stores. While the working class is facing total loss and financial ruin, ghetto dwellers are still enjoying paid housing, paid utilities, and pre-paid WIC cards. Yet, gov. payouts are no longer enough to keep gibsmedats from rioting. The violence they threaten the rest of us with was never about poverty.
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Yet another post on the board, that is 100 percent spot on.

As has been stated before many times, its their Stone Age Tribal Jungle Culture.

Their culture has, and always will be, at war with other cultures.
It took me decades of research, when I finally realized that the bottom
line reason that Africans act the way that they do,
is that their culture demands dominion, over other cultures,
by whatever means is necessary, to achieve that dominion.

Just look at the former 1st world major metro areas in the ZUSA,
that are now 3rd world hellholes, just like over in Africa.
They achieved their dominance in the major metro areas,
by running White peoples off, and because of the legacy
of slavery and Jim Crow, they demanded and were rewarded
with their gibsmedat lifestyle, nothing more than bribes,
to prevent the major metro areas, from being burnt to the ground.

Now, there is nothing more to give, to a 70 IQ savage so called race,
controlled by a culture of absolute violence, destruction and mayhem.

Ferguson is the model, and this time not only are the ghettos going to be burnt,
but the White suburban areas.

Look to South Africa, as that is the future for the ZUSA, and nothing can stop
the coming destruction of the ZUSA. The CORONA planned demic most
likely is the fuse, that finally ignites the ZUSA powder house.

Even now as I type this post, its Black male this, and Black male that
on the scanner. They are in control.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 
CaryC

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Terrwyn said:
The question I never get an answer too is "say you have some of that shiny stuff. Just what are you supposed to do with it when all the shiny stuff shops are closed and you are quarantined in your house.? Just wondered about it? Can use that paper stuff shopping online.
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Anyone can paint a no win situation, Just saying.

At present anyone can still use plastic for online.

Shiny stuff is for face to face when paper stuff is gone. And the value will be whatever you're doing business with says it is.

And once NYC goes full on quarantine with military enforcement can be used as a bribe to get out.

In MHO that is why, and where you use it. In place of building a financial windfall.
 
Dennis Olson

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Terrwyn said:
The question I never get an answer too is "say you have some of that shiny stuff. Just what are you supposed to do with it when all the shiny stuff shops are closed and you are quarantined in your house.? Just wondered about it? Can use that paper stuff shopping online.
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CaryC said:
At present anyone can still use plastic for online.

Shiny stuff is for face to face when paper stuff is gone. And the value will be whatever you're doing business with says it is.
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Cary is correct. You’re ASS-U-MEing that there will always be an Internet and on-line shopping. If things go TEOTWAWKI, I assure you that that will not be the case.

CaryC said:
And once NYC goes full on quarantine with military enforcement can be used as a bribe to get out.
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Abso-freakin-lutely. Or as bribes to keep the rampaging nigras from cutting off your head.
 
Silverfox

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My take is: The civil unrest is coming, this is a game changer, that virus thing. The civil unrest will take the form of: Every man for them-self; For those that are unprepared for what is coming. Oh you may see Antifa or some other group present with all the others, but they won't have unit cohesion. Just desperation coincidental with someone else dressed for the occasion, and everyone inflamed by the consequences of prior self absorbed leadership.

Fox.
 
Raggedyman

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Silverfox said:
My take is: The civil unrest is coming, this is a game changer, that virus thing. The civil unrest will take the form of: Every man for them-self; For those that are unprepared for what is coming. Oh you may see Antifa or some other group present with all the others, but they won't have unit cohesion. Just desperation coincidental with someone else dressed for the occasion, and everyone inflamed by the consequences of prior self absorbed leadership.

Fox.
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I believe you're correct fox - its not going to be pretty. I remembering a Ric Wiles (Tru News) program I listened to several years back discussing the tribulation. he described violence in streets of America rising to the level of "human butchery" . . . I think that we can safely say that although we may be prepared for that level of horror physically I'd venture to say that NONE of us would be prepared for it mentally emotionally or spiritually.
 
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Please turn in all your term papers today as the events, associated with your thesis' are about to proof.
Raggedyman said:
. . . .I remembering a Ric Wiles (Tru News) program I listened to several years back discussing the tribulation. he described violence in streets of America rising to the level of "human butchery" . . . .
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Not sure how this citing of religion works, but since you bring it up I'd ask if you ever heard Wilkerson's vision for America? Takes the military a year to regain control of the masses. 400 million+ guns? Hell of a shoot out.

Now, the imaginary numbers and all the predictions surrounding, what will happen in a crisis that leads to civil unrest, are about to go live- This week. The experiment has been fully funded and the players are ready.
All the panic buying for the apocalypse started two ta three weeks ago, for the Wokesters; Those on a limited budget, have already gone through the purchases and now the stores are looking increasingly thin on the shelves. Just the deplorable's left for purchase.

I know some people, as I'm sure many here do, I know some people and can only imagine the anxiety they are experiencing at this time knowing they had ample opportunity to prepare for something like this but- The boat, or worse yet- That'll never happen.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1242241505433137158
View: https://twitter.com/TheJamTVShow/status/1242241505433137158


Fox.
 
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I wouldn't say none of us are prepared to deal with the coming horrors. But it isn't fun.

Back in the 1970s when I was doing EMT rotations, one of the jobs the EMT students were given at the ambulance companies was to wash out the reusable body bags.
 
Dennis Olson

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The question I never get an answer too is "say you have some of that shiny stuff. Just what are you supposed to do with it when all the shiny stuff shops are closed and you are quarantined in your house.?

The main lesson from history seems to be "don't forget where you put it." And a corollary, make sure whoever you want to benefit from your thrift and wisdom (or greed and thievery as the case may be) knows where you put it.

Hidden hoards from hard times long ago turn up all the time. And if anything most are worth more than they were when they were carefully hidden - and lost, by an owner who perhaps did not survive to recover them, or for other reasons was not able to do so. Still, the VALUE of the hoard survived, even if the original owner didn't. It seems as if there is a report of a new history making find every couple of months these days.

Please think of the fundamental purpose of money. Money is a tool to TRANSFER VALUE through SPACE and TIME. Note the emphasis.
 
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Dennis Olson said:
So this article is actually discussing muzloids in Europe and ghetto-scum in the US. The premise is flawed: neither group holds jobs or participates in their respective societies. They’re just gibsmedats.
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The premise is being driven by those large and in charge who helped create the mess in the first place....
 
Silverfox

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Dozdoats said:
And the left-wing dirt-bags are stirring up that "unrest" as hard and as fast as they can!

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. And I mean that in the practical sense, not the Biblical. Even though there is no practical difference...
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I haven't seen any of that yet. Just sayin. In fact, even Trump has tamed his tongue, i.e. twitter. Haven't heard much from the Dims either.
 
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