2020, the year of the Great Lockdown, leading to what some are now calling the Great

Coronavirus Recession, it was triggered by a strategic wager, sacrifice economic momentum

in order to physically distance people all with a goal of starving and killing off a spreading

virus.

It was a huge gamble, and it hurt.

The Dow Jones flirting with 30,000 in February plummeted to under 19,000 a month later, as

I record this 22 million Americans have filed unemployment claims.

The financial fallout of the Great Coronavirus Recession has been compared to the Great Recession

of 2007 to 2009, even evoking comparisons to the Great Depression of 1929 to 1933.

Looking ahead, something the economy will bounce back to normal as soon as the virus is under

control.

Others are less optimistic.

Recessions are kill joys, they destroy small businesses, they disrupt life, they take

away our normalcy, and they cost us our happiness.

In March, our president predicted America would lose more lives to the despair of recession,

than to the virus itself saying, quote, people get tremendous anxiety in depression and you

have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies.

In far greater numbers, than the numbers that we're talking about with regard to the

virus, end quote, statistically this statement is hotly contested, but just appreciate these

words and what they say about the apparent threat of economic uncertainty on emotional

well-being.

This isn't the first recession, it won't be the last recession, so what is God up to in

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