May21 Project: Day 28

May21 Project: Day 28 – Friday June 17, 2011. (Posted June 26)

Well, at work yesterday it was announced that we were going to start having “furlough” days. Basically we all will start taking every Friday off. There is even talk of having some shutdowns.

Honestly, I’m not sure how long the high-tech industries are going to keep going. Like I said the other day, domestic flights are virtually nonexistent and no one is flying to Asia and Europe.

Mostly it’s the fact that phones and networks are failing, but it’s also the “flu” that has been raging across Eastern Europe. They say that it’s not so bad, but there are more and more deaths getting reported… and it’s actually sounding like some strange version of “mad cow”.

The Syrians have declared martial law, and started shooting more protestors. It’s almost as bad a Libya.

In fact fighting and virtual Civil War has broken out in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara, all the northern Africa countries. This has caused millions of refugees who are flooding into France, Spain and Italy. There are UN camps getting setup, but with all those folks packed in camps, it’s looking like a recipe for disaster.

It’s not that bad here, and we still don’t seem to have many reports of the “new Flu”, but that may be because all the towns and cities are hunkering down.