Social Distancing
  (Except for protesters, rioters, and construction workers.  Also, they don't need to wear masks either.)


Americans are already a stand-offish, somewhat intra-alienated people anyway.

Social disparity has always been the norm ("George Floyd" anyone?), and most people congregate primarily with their "own kind" (as a rule), showing either disinterest or insensitivity toward anyone who lives or thinks differently from the way they and their friends/lovers/close relatives do.

Plus Americans are immensely "communication deficient" by nature.
They have this inexplicable aversion to transparency, and any kind of display of compassion or empathy toward anyone outside their personal or social sphere usually has an air of disingenuous undertones about it.

I wonder how much loyalty Trump supporters still have for the illustrious Commander-In-Chief after having pledged $2-trillion-plus in aid to "keep the American economy going" last March and April.

Definitely a 180-degree turnaround from earlier this year.
Had to suffer all those addresses on national television he gave at the time.
Surely the 'Pres is one of the most gauche speakers I've ever heard.  One wonders, with such a lack of charisma, how he manages to garner so many followers.

Are "spending cuts" still on hold, or is everything going "back to normal" enough to resume the illusions of "economic progress"?

            This New Age Of Ultra-hygienics
If there's one thing to be said about the COVID-19 pan(ic)demic it's the way so many individuals and businesses have suddenly become aware of germs, bacteria, and viruses, and of the importance of keeping things clean and wiped down.

It's like the whole culture has taken a crash course in remedial High School Biology 101.

It was only a few months ago when customers who patronized restaurants, bars, coffee shops had to brush crumbs off the table when they sat down to eat or drink.
Now the employees are wiping down tables, booths, and chairs EVERY TIME they get used, and are spraying counters and door handles with disinfectant spray constantly.

Gone, too, are the days of mindless slobs coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths and face.
Of course it's rather hard to cough and sneeze openly while wearing face masks.

So the Trump Administration is finally following through on their threat proposal to cut back on government funding for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits
...while funneling even more money toward the military

I guess the armed forces have to somehow be compensated for the cost of all those $400 staplers, $640 toilet seats, $10,000 laptops and tablets, $600 screwdrivers, $1500-apiece lug nuts, $7000 coffee makers, .....

                                                G . M . O .
                     Genetically  Mutated  Oddities

"The definition of 'insanity' is doing the same thing over and over and expecting  a different result each time"
For those who adhere to this axiom there are two things I want you to do:

1) Go to a nice restaurant in any major city and order a beer with your meal

2) On another occasion go to a nice restaurant in a town within a dry county and order a beer with your meal
...hey, settling for "pie and coffee" is just fine, too

                  The original "nazis"

Long before World War II, or Hitler, or the actual Nazi party itself, you had the ancient Mayans who routinely sacrificed "expendable" individuals in their efforts to "please their gods" by either tossing them into the pit of an active volcano or off a high cliff, or subjecting them to various types of physical mutilations including dismembering body parts, or simply burying them alive. 

Then you had ancient Rome throwing Christians to the lions at their arenas to amuse a huge audience (and, after Rome became a Christian nation itself, it would be the non-Christians getting persecuted).

And let's not forget the Inquisition and the way heretics, social misfits, and non-believers were burned alive at the stakes.
To say nothing about 1692 Salem.

Who committed all these atrocities?  Why, mainly the "normal people"---by way of the officials of their society who acted as their "agents" on behalf of not only the cultural narratives of the time, or of the social mores and dogmas, but also of the "mob mentality" of the majority "average" whose beliefs and prejudices ruled the day.

In short:
The true "nazis" are simply, ultimately, the "normal" people.  The dutifully "upstanding" and "morally/socially flawless" ones society values and favors.

The "norms" are the "master race" who get to judge anyone considered "inferior" ("cultural interlopers": anyone deemed a "nuisance", a "threat", or any "oddball" who can't seem to "fit in" properly) and determine what ways to either "remove them from society" or at least "keep some kind of a sharp vigil on them" when they're out and about.

And the job of the government, authorities, and lawmakers is to be the "right-hand men" of all these "normals" and to write and enforce laws which cater to all their wishes, whims, ideals, dogmas, customs, and beliefs.  And to go after, apprehend, and possibly punish any designated "cultural interloper" and see to it that they're properly put in their "designated place".

In any society you'll always find that the "master race" always rules.