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Taking Wooden Nickels: Man Cluelessness in Crisis can be final and fatal

Society has been proliferated with data coming from research that examines the real status of Americans.  But, no matter how profound and informative the data may be, humans have what one would call a 'selective perception' opting to believe a lie before the truth. Hence, hoping vs. reality seem to have clashed since the beginning of time. Currently, the government is supposedly determining the amount of direct funding that it would issue to its (some) citizens to help them overcome the ravages of a virus pandemic that has placed society in and obit of uncertainty.  And, while those in government are acting like they care it's arguable that our capitalistic system are revealing holes in human response.  To be perfectly clear, the banks, wall street, airlines are really the priority - just like before.  Every profit making entity supersedes human concerns for those most at risk, i.e., the elderly, disabled, and citizens in general.  Now people would like to hope that this