It’s likely the past few weeks have been some of the most surreal you’ve ever experienced; I know it’s been the case for me. The largest cities in the U.S. are essentially on lockdown, the stock market is in free fall and grocery stores are being stripped bare. It feels like a very dark moment, but in such darkness I see the light of a new beginning. A new beginning that starts with each and every one of us.
One of the things that helped me navigate the last couple of months in a state of relative calm is a longstanding understanding that something of this sort was inevitable. Not a pandemic necessarily, but something was bound to come along and slam us unexpectedly, and that when it did, the impact would be shockingly disruptive given how completely brittle and phony our economies and societies have become.
It’s this deep-seated recognition that the world paradigm we reside in isn’t long for the ages which allowed me to stay focused and relatively unemotional as this pandemic unfolded. I’m also extremely lucky to have a wife who showed tremendous resolve and decisiveness by immediately taking preparations for our family all the way back in January, before even I was ready to act in a meaningful way. While people called what we were doing panicking, it was just thoughtful and reasonable preparation. Preparation that allowed us to remain calm in early March as things started shutting down, and as many found themselves flatfooted and confused.
There’s never been a better opportunity to localize and decentralize than right now.— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) March 12, 2020
Start with yourself and your family, make them as robust as possible. Then work on your community and extend outward from there.
Think about who you can touch in a positive way and how. Go.
It’s impossible to overstate the impact you can have as an individual in times like these. We’ve all seen the federal government response. From statements like “it’s just the flu,” to Trump signing charts of a short-covering rally in the stock market and the CDC’s inability or unwillingness to test Americans in the early days, this entire episode should prove to you once and for all that the centralized cavalry isn’t coming. You are the cavalry.
You have no leaders.— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) March 9, 2020
You must be the leadership you want to see in the world.
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