Who knows maybe someone will buy this excuse.
Maybe Joe and the ho will. I certainly don’t buy one single, solitary word of it. Not a word.
Actually on a certain level she is correct.
They trapped us all like rats for over a year. There are huge psychological impacts for what they have done to us. Ranging from extreme paranoia, fear, anxiety, depression of people normally/generally considered mentally stable.
Consider for a moment those who are criminally unstable. Consider the messaging of being non-essential, your life is non-essential. Consider this online indoctrination center called the internet. BLM messaging and defund the police messaging.
Even under the best of circumstances I would expect and anticipate to see a temporary spike in crime and even murder. Just as we see a spike in travel right now too.
Lance is wrong though about the “cause.” It isn’t about ending restrictions too early. It is the normal and natural progression of a certain element within any society after being confined for soooo long.
One part of society will celebrate in a healthy way. The other will release the pent up anxiety in a dangerous way and with total disregard.
Right now is a very dangerous time for a lot of reasons. And it is really important to not let democrats use this excuse to infringe on our Right to protect ourselves. This is being ginned up, gaslighted. Heck ...it might even have been anticipated by them...I know I anticipated it.
But the spike in crime/murders has nothing to do with Republicans lifting restrictions too early and everything to do with the Mayor not understanding the psychology of confinement for torturous lengths of time.
The voters in these cities keep buying it, and voting for more of it.