When the world is confronted by catastrophic problems it must manage them with what resources it has knowing there is a finite limit to those resources.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, most interviews on television are done now by Skype. The networks have not shutdown. They have managed around the problem. They use the technology they have and work online. They are working within the limits of their resources. They don’t bring people to the studio because it is against the proper edicts to manage the disease and as well the cost and risk associated with disease control mechanisms within the studio would be massive. They don’t close because if they did their engagement with the people would be lost and they would not regain it or it would at the least be severely compromised.

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To understand any request made of government is to first understand that governments have no money but yours and anything they borrow you have borrowed and anything they must repay must be paid by you. The question to ask yourself is: would you have borrowed the money for that request if it was solely your decision? Governments are also responsible for the fundamental worth of that money so that the money you have in the bank is not in a currency of no worth.

Around the world some countries have been devastated by COVID-19 but some countries have not. In some parts of the world, the financial fallout will be as economically disastrous as the disease was for the health of its people. Shops will go broke, major employers will go broke, major exporters will be lost and the financial weight bearing walls of the country’s economic house will collapse. Their currencies will be debased.