The actual coronavirus is now yesterday's story. Today's story is the political and economic fallout. This is 9/11 on steroids. Here is a list of questions all thinking people need to ask right now:

1. Where is my food coming from?

2. Where is my income coming from?

3. Where do I live? Clearly, less urban is less risky.

4. What relationships am I cultivating to complement my skill deficiencies?

5. What can I build, grow, or repair to have skills I can barter during an economic meltdown?

What happens in hyper-inflation, like the Weimer Republic in Germany when people carted paper money around in wheelbarrows to buy bread? What happens in hyper-deflation when pensions, savings, and stock portfolios are wiped out? What if both of these things happen to different portions of the economy at the same time?

What happens when trust in government and money collapses? That's when the above 5 questions determine your survivability. I'm not a gloom and doom person, but I also know that the day before Oct. 29, 1929 virtually all economic forecasts predicted rosy days ahead and continued prosperity. Within 24 hours some of those experts had jumped from their office windows.

What if your employer will not let you come back to work without a vaccination? The internet will not shut down. It will simply become the new mechanism to engage in commerce, surveillance, personal monitoring, and a host of snitches for alleged witches--people who don't cotton to the party line. Vitamin C to thwart sickness? Censored--it's not accredited medical advice.

What if the sky actually does fall this time? Nobody alive right now has ever seen anything like this, perhaps not even in history. Wisdom and prudence require that we spend some time preparing for a different world. My advice is to prepare for a world you can be as independent from as possible.

What are two things this calamity is pushing you to do that were on your back burner but have now moved to front burner status?