Tim Knowles
3 min readMay 11, 2020

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I think the food shortage is being just as overblown as the virus. The food will get out or at least a lot of it. A lot of food was wasted before so where it is wasted matters little.

I am retirement age. Are you suggesting that I should not practice social distancing? Social distancing seems to be in my best interests.

We rarely went to restaurants or movies before, why would we start going now. My wife was a germaphobe before the pandemic. Movie theaters are gross and disgusting. Most people are pigs.

I am working from home and I don’t need this job. If they ask me to go back to work I will take a few weeks of vacation to think it over.

If, if , if. You have to learn to adapt. Nobody knows how this is going to play out and I suspect you are wrong, at best sort of close.

I have discounted mortality figures for years. Deaths don’t count, years of meaningful life is what counts. Premature death should be measured in years not deaths. If a million old people die a year earlier than expected it might not cost a single year of productive life. I had an Aunt who for years prayed to God to take her. Me, if I died today it would probably be twenty years too soon.

I cut my own grass, do my own laundry, we clean our own house, I cook our meals. Not many workers are making a living catering to us. The service economy was a house of cards. It was a huge discretionary income sink. People who could not afford those discretionary expenses made them anyway. My wife does her own nails and cuts our hair. Sometimes I have to help her cut hers. I cast my own bullets and load my own ammo. I can barely resist stopping for road killed gators.

Beside my employer the only ones profiting off us are the Government (taxes are my biggest expense), Heathcare, Utilities, Walmart and Amazon. It takes Walmart and Amazon less time to stock my purchases than it takes me to make the purchases. Well, I guess once every ten years or so I buy an automobile but if I was not working that might stretch into every 20 years. It seems I trade houses every 15 years or so but that expense seems to be lost in the equity trade. I have not had a mortgage for 10 years.

I know I am privileged in that things have worked out well for me but I have not squandered my good fortune. I know I have not shared it much with anyone but my employer and the Government. I have made significant charitable contributions.

It is time for a reset on a lot of the economy.

Vanity and elitism drive a lot of spending. I call that sin.

I used to grow my own vegetables and eggs. If I go out and shoot a pig it would probably be meat for 6 months. If I wasn’t working I could catch fish almost every day.

My only regret is that so much of my taxes go to the Federal Government not my state or local government.

It should be more important who is your Governor than who is your President.

TEK

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Tim Knowles
Tim Knowles

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