Let’s be really clear about this: The riots are because of the lockdown. And businesses are still failing. First the weak ones failed, then the less weak, etc. But make no mistake: Even if everything went back to business as usual starting today, the other side of the storm is still coming. It is the economic side. And it will make the Great Depression look like a dry run.
I’m preparing my property for my urban family members to be able to live here next year - just in case.
I am glad to read your post. I keep trying to tell people that the tidal wave of the economic destruction for this has yet to come in. When it does, people will long for the quaintness of this non-virulent virus.
I think the other side of the storm is going to be at least as much political as economic (of course, the same could be said of the Great Depression itself). The lockdown has presented the Left with a better opportunity than they ever could have dreamed to tear down our political and social institutions and radicalize a large part of the population. The economic damage is bad but will ultimately be temporary if the economy is allowed to recover. The damage to our nationhood may be permanent.