Day 90

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is coming apart at the seams.  

Nurses in Athens, Georgia reveal that they were instructed to fake covid-19 tests so that there would be fewer positive results, with the thought that it would somehow make the town's efforts to contain the virus look better.

A driver in Atlanta, apparently angered that he had to stop his car while a street protest passed by, took an assault rifle out of his trunk and put it in the front seat, and then drove his car into some nearby pedestrians.  Someone fired some shots at him as he sped away.  The local newspaper covered the story with the headline that protesters fired shots at a motorist, and it wasn't until the sixth paragraph that the rifle and driving into protesters were revealed.  Had the situation been reversed (black protesters brandished an assault rifle before driving a car into white pedestrians, but someone ran him off with a pistol), we'd be hearing all those "good guy with a gun" maxims.

New video shows NYC cops applying a choke hold, a procedure now banned by law, to a black man until he passed out.  Fortunately, he survived, but will the cops be arrested for breaking the law with an illegal choke hold?

The so-called "president" fired the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who just so happened to be investigating several of the "president's" allies and cronies.  The firing occurred late on a Friday afternoon, on Juneteenth, the day before the Tulsa rally, when it was hoped that not many people would notice.

The Tulsa rally.

The country, it seems, is sliding into lawlessness and corruption, with those in power, most noticeably that so-called "president" and the police, putting themselves above the law and acting without recourse or recrimination.  And the people are regressing into combative tribalism, my side versus my enemies, facilitating the kleptocracy.

Sad.