What cities across the United States are experiencing is the inevitable consequence of shuttering a vast economy for over two months. The naive policy of locking down society lit an invisible fuse, and now the consequences are becoming visible. Now we know that the lock-down policy that threw 40 million Americans out of work, destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and decimated the U.S. healthcare system was imposed in vain. COVID-19 is now widely seen as an infection dangerous only to the very old, and those with pre-existing conditions. It poses no real risk to anyone under 60, and, significantly, no risk to children. Despite this knowledge, we will be treated to pandemic theater in the fall, when kids return to school, and find the many virus protocols needlessly disrupting their childhood.
The consequences of the most suicidal policy in history, suicidal on a civilizational scale, are emerging. The riots are merely the beginning. The question now is: are we able to pull ourselves out, or have we fallen below the event horizon, from which there is no escape?
