Because it convinces Han Solo to come save the day.

You are about to be called on. Take a Look Around. We need you.

Rent is due in 3 days.

Try googling words like, “how many Americans are almost homeless because they are one pay check away?”

Here’s one hit: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-paycheck-away-from-the-street-2016-01-06

Likely, more than 60%.

Much of that 60% is already 1 pay check or 1 portion of a paycheck behind.

https://fortune.com/2019/01/29/americans-liquid-asset-poor-propserity-now-report/

In 10 days, potentially 60% of America will default on rent.

In barely more than 15 days, landlords will be forced to rethink their investment plans for their long term mortgages.

Banks will soon notice after another 15 days.

0% interest rate sounded like good ideas to some some days ago. Now it just sounds like junk bonds.

Please. “You can see what they’re up against:”

Hopefully before the next rent comes due, residents of the United States like you will receive dollar amounts from the government.

For a far vast majority of beneficiaries like us who will receive a dollar amount, this dollar amount will not cover the rent that will be past-due, and it will not cover the rent that will soon be due again.

Nor will it cover a complete restock of the grocery store; unless we cancel our Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple, and Disney– luxury items likely helping many maintain mental health while protecting our physical health with social-distancing.

For a vast majority of the economy, the government stimulus package will not prevent foreclosures happening months from now- – housing is a right, evictions should not occur- – landlords are beholden to banks, and banks do not agree with me. Lawmakers tend to agree with the banks.

We are all in this together because we are all soon to realize that we are actually mostly on our own: we will literally depend on each other to maintain a new type of ‘communividuality.’

“You can’t just turn your back on them,” because any further backs turned will only allow further systems to crumble in terror:

Many won’t be able to afford rent. Many landlords won’t be able to afford their mortgage.

Some of us have been stocking up on food and items for weeks. Some of us are waiting for our checks to finally come on the first of the month, and we lay with hope that there will still items for us to purchase, too.

But the stores. They will be crowded. There will be no way to maintain the recommended six feet.

Each checkout line will stretch down the center of the entire aisle, and shoppers will have to try to wiggle past while grabbing groceries and merchandise.

It may take several days to ‘normalize.’

April 1 will come and go.

And a lot will have to be sorted out by May 1.

Up to and through now, the federal government has shown no indication that it will act any quicker than its already established pace.

Keeping our seniors, disabled, and children fed and cared for: it will be up to us, together, to enable the individuals to do it alone.

This, in and of itself, is a unique challenge to our time in history that only our time in humanity can over come.

We have tools provided.

Those who can stock up on certain items more easily- we will need them to do so, and we will need them to share with those who cannot.

Keeping our restaurants, the small businesses that are the cornerstones of our neighborhoods and communities: they already know that what ever assistance package comes their way, it will not be enough.

https://la.eater.com/2020/3/25/21194144/cheesecake-factory-rent-strike-chain-restaurant

Those who can order food from restaurants more easily, we will need them to do so, and we will need to figure a way to have a maximum impact.

Our economy is clearly not built to withstand a direct, large scale-assault.

But we, like one-piloted fighters, may have a chance.

Each of us. All of us.

The targets are our small businesses and our vulnerable renters, so we will all have to use a minimum of 10% of our government issued checks to pledge to spend on your local economy.

Travel straight through the month, keeping a narrow path, spending up to $30 per week, or up to $120 per month, on local commerce, shops and eateries, or direct local charities.

Some will be able to do more, some of us, not as much. A precise coordination can help create a stabilizing reaction that could hold up our local economies. Only a precise hit will set off that chain reaction.

It is not impossible. We used to bulls-eye neighborhood shopping fairs all of the time back home. We just have to do it virtually now.

This is it. It only starts from here.

And hey,

“They could use a good pilot like you.”