Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Can things get any worse?  Over 100,000 dead from the virus, record unemployment, businesses going bankrupt, another police killing of a black man on camera, peaceful protests turning into riots, burning and looting.  Meanwhile our president says that he going to name a domestic group terrorists and threatens to use the military on our own soil and not against a foreign power.

Well, it certainly can get worse.  With the country opening up as the virus stabilized, we may get a second wave, if not during the summer then likely during the winter.  I think the death rate will decrease because many of the most vulnerable, such as the elderly in nursing homes, have already been victims.  We know more how to protect those who survived and even though we don't have a cure or a vaccine, we will be able to treat patients better.  But there are plenty of people who will be infected because they are not careful, because people around them not careful, or because they have jobs that make them more vulnerable.

Even with businesses opening up, the economy will continue to be poor.  Many people will remain unemployed as businesses go bankrupt.  There will be little confidence in the economy.  Travel, restaurants, entertainment may improve for a time but if there is any outbreak again, people will stay away from these businesses.

Police killing of black men followed by riots are like mass shootings, we are almost numb to them.  A journalist can just use the same article he wrote before, just change the name, date and locale.  Just like mass shooting we don't seem to be able to do anything about it.  Before the trial of the cop who killed Floyd is over, I predict there will be at least another killing of a black man by a cop or vigilante claiming self defense caught on camera.

The frustration of the public, in particular the African American community, is understandable.  But that does not excuse those who destroy properties and loot business establishments.  These people do not honor the men who were murdered.  Nor do they advance the cause of freedom as the peaceful protesters are trying to do.  In fact, the looting and burning will turn some Americans, who may otherwise be sympathetic to the protesters, to against them instead.

One person who is not sympathetic to the protesters is the president.  His leadership from the virus to the trade war, to the division of the country is beyond terrible.  He threatens to send in the military and shoot the "thugs".   I wonder what the protesters in Hong Kong think of the U.S. government after asking it to rescue them from China.  Well, that is for another blog, we have too much problems on our own hands right now.