I feel truly bad for the good citizens who have lost so much.
But I really hope federal dollars don’t flood in to “fix things”. The Mayors and the Governors need to own this problem and they need to fix the damage and they need to find a way to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Sending in billions of federal dollars, on the other hand, will pretty much guarantee that it WILL happen again. Because everybody likes that free money.
We are watching the death of American cities. I doubt many businesses will return. There will be an exodus from cities. People who can afford to leave will leave. They have already been doing it because of high taxes. For those that have not left, what did those taxes buy? We see the abject failure of city cops to protect businesses. The cops are being ordered to let things burn. The cops are being ordered to harass businesses because of a hoax flu. Cities are a failed police state where the good guys are persecuted and the bad guys are ignored. To hell with them.