Day 69

History will not look back on 2020 fondly.

Atlanta got hit pretty hard Friday night by riots and looting stemming from initially peaceful protests over police brutality and recent black deaths at the hands of the police.  Last night, a curfew was enforced and the smaller numbers out on the street kept the violence low. Still, anger and frustration are high, and bottling up the rage may only make it worse when it is finally unleashed. 

New cases of coronavirus and the number of daily covid-related deaths in Georgia are not declining. After an initial peak in mid-April, both numbers dropped somewhat and appear to have plateaued. As businesses reopen and people are getting back to their everyday life, the pathogen is still out there in the community and will only spread as more and more contact occurs among individuals.  This pandemic looks like it will be around for a long while.

We're only five months into 2020 and we've already seen impeachment hearings (I refuse to call the Senate proceedings a "trial"), Australia on fire, a deluge of rain in the American South, a pandemic, the worst economic depression in a century, 40 million unemployed, 100,000 dead from coronavirus, and some of the largest and angriest protests in years.  The upcoming campaigns for the presidential election are likely to be as ugly and dishonest as ever, and the climate is still relentlessly changing.  Good times.