[Ah, yes. That is quite true. France thinks he's dead and in the afterlife, so he's not entirely cautious of handing out his real identity.]

[France nods understandingly at the first part before answering the second.]

When the economy goes into recession, so does our immune systems. If we catch a cold normally, we usually don't even notice, but if we catch one during a recession or a depression, then we definitely notice because we don't get better. This used to be a more localized coughcoughHACKcough phenomeon, but it's become a semi-global thing since industrialization.