While the riots and other social things seem to be dominating the news cycle, here's something interesting:
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office has released their full and final autopsy report on the death of George Floyd, noting that he had tested positive for COVID-19, but it was not a contributing factor in his death.
I'm going to suggest it was a contributing factor to the rioting that followed.
Increased societal stress, cumulative fear of death from an invisible source, and then the presentation of a threat from a well known old enemy = exaggerated focused response like lifting the lid of a pressure cooker. Displacement is the term used for application of emotion from one source to another because it
cannot be expressed at the first. Can you mass protest against a virus? No. You lockdown. Can you get tribal support against a common enemy? No, you isolate.
So now we get this.
Pretending that everything is back to normal, or ignoring the virus and doing social adjustments( protesting, rioting, massing military, arresting, tear gas) instead of
isolating is going to get people
killed.
George Floyd knew he was positive. Why is he maskless, in an enclosed store, having arguments about fake money? Because 20$ is more important in the minds of the general public than 100,000+ deaths? Police officers making an arrest- are they wearing antivirus gear? No. Are they minimizing contact with people to protect themselves? No, they are busy strangling them in a close cluster so they can all inhale.
The general failure of the US education system is going to be
paid in full this year. You don't understand basic science? Tough. You or your loved ones are getting sick and
dying because you don't.
It is going to cost a lot more lives, trash the economy further, and irrevocably alter the politics.
Viral particles do not know or care about our travails. They just relentlessly do what is in their 16kb code. You think the Terminator was single minded? Ha.
Apply the understanding to the facts, and predict:
eg: the 4 accused officers with zero PPE in close proximity to the dying, gasping, exhaling, maskless Covid 19 positive man are now arrested and going to be put into a prison. They were all home with other people before that. Also - maskless, of course, in their homes because murder charges are something rather distracting eh?
What will happen next, Scooby?
