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       In the French Quarter, on historic Jackson Square, there were still a few palm-readers and fortunetellers left, still toughing it out in these hard economic times.  “You will have obstacles in your path but you will overcome them,” said Mssr. Beau as he pulled both the Joker and the High Priestess out of his tarot deck.  With a hurricane coming and the most strenuous COV$D lock-down in America already here, I predicted that he was probably right.  And while I did manage to get out of town just hours before the hurricane hit, I also managed to get stuck in an elevator for a half-hour — and stuck on a streetcar that broke down.   Obstacles indeed.

    But what was even more newsworthy about my bus trip out past City Park, the Greenwood Cemetery, the Causeway and even suburban Trader Joe’s?  The fact that this gigantic hospital was practically empty.  No one in the lobby, no one in the ER and almost no one in most of the corridors.  Wha?

PS:  Speaking of COV$D, Afghanistan and hurricanes (oh my!), all this chaos appears to be Disaster Capitalism’s finest hour.  Once again, the World Economic Forum has happily released its flying monkeys to protect its treasures — and dropped a house on the rest of us.  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shock-doctrine-naomi-klein/1101584593?ean=9780312427993