{"id":15139,"date":"2020-05-26T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:43:50","slug":"the-ant-and-the-grasshopper-free-downloadable-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper-free-downloadable-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ant and the Grasshopper (+ Free Downloadable Ebook)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the classic fable The Ant and the Grasshopper<\/a>, you\u2019ll remember the ant worked hard all summer to prepare for the winter, while the grasshopper sat around playing jazz violin.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gonna store away any food?\u201d asked the ant.<\/p>\n

The grasshopper waved him away. \u201cI\u2019m practicing my arpeggios, man,\u201d he said, folding his long legs underneath him and retuning his strings.<\/p>\n

Then winter came. The ant was warm and cozy inside his comfortably-furnished ant farm, when he heard a knock at the door. \u201cWho is it?\u201d asked the ant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is I, the grasshopper. I am dying from hunger. Please, do you have any food to spare?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you can go play a few gigs with your jazz orchestra!\u201d replied the ant.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, sir, I am a solo violinist,\u201d begged the grasshopper from outside. \u201cI have no jazz combo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell then,\u201d replied the ant, \u201cyou\u2019ll have to eat your violin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moral of the story: ants are a-holes.<\/p>\n

Preparing for the Winter<\/h2>\n

The good news is that we will make it through the winter. We\u2019re humans, and humans are resilient. \u201cMaking it through\u201d is kind of what we do. In fact, we\u2019ve been through a lot worse \u2013 war, famine, Achy Breaky Heart<\/em> \u2013 and we turned out OK.<\/p>\n

If you look at this time as one big stress test of the human species, we\u2019re passing the test. Sure, we lost JCPenney, but they were going down anyway. All told, this has been very difficult \u2013 and it\u2019s difficult for all of us, in different ways \u2013 but we\u2019ve pulled through.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the good news. The bad news is this ain\u2019t over yet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re most likely in the second inning of this ballgame, not the eighth. If Coronavirus behaves like other flu viruses, it will slow down a bit in the summer, but it could be back with a vengeance in the fall. Now is not the time to practice jazz violin: like the ant, now is the time to prepare<\/em>.<\/p>\n


\n\"Coronavirus<\/center><\/p>\n

While pandemics are hard to predict, we\u2019ve laid out a likely timeline of what comes next. Remember: the vaccine is the goal<\/strong>. Vaccine means victory, which is why we are calling it \u201cV-Day.\u201d Then we can clear out the economic wreckage and rebuild a great new society. It will all be worth it.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we must prepare for the winter.<\/p>\n

Over the last several weeks, we\u2019ve been laying out a vision for the future, offering blockchain-based solutions to the biggest problems brought about by this pandemic. We\u2019ve mapped these to the three \u201cActs\u201d of this great drama:<\/p>\n