taxes, people commuting to work. lebanon also has a chronic electricity problems so people rely a lot on private generators. of course all of which also need fuel, so this has led to massive power outages. people sometimes have as little as two hours of power a day, sometimes six hours, so that has problems in terms of we are in the mediterranean, quite hot, middle of summer so without air conditioning it can be quite hard to sleep, much less to think or do any kind of work. people who live on the upper floors of buildings a lot of times i have to take the stairs because elevators do not work, problems with refrigeration. talked to hospitals who have seen huge spikes in a food poisoning, things like that. hospitals themselves are having hard time keeping their own power on because they rely on generators, so really a lot of the basics that is keeping society running ijust not present. it keeping society running i ust not resent. , , ., , ., present. it is imploding. it is a trio prese