In a post yesterday, Hive account@ericvancewalton said

We’re at a very precarious stage in this pandemic. People are beginning to fray from lack of socialization and financial pressures.

So very true. I’ve been in semi-quarantine for 105 days now. It’s been wearing me down. After 30, I had to get out in public, if only the occasional run to a grocery store. I went more than a month without seeing my son. Finally couldn’t take it any more and would have him come over for socially-distanced get togethers on our back porch. Eventually even that wasn’t enough. I went to see his new apartment this weekend and couldn’t resist hugging him, for the first time in more than three months. If I contract this damn disease and die, so be it. At least I got to hug my boy.

I’m seeing manifestations of what Hive account@ericvancewalton alluded to all around. I’ve more than once noticed people in stores seeming testy, their nerves frayed. I haven’t seen any punches thrown, but it would no longer surprise me. Way more people are driving faster than they should. And financial pressures are mounting. In America, those $600 extra in unemployment payments are coming to an end. People are only just starting to realize that we are still only in the very early stages of an economic collapse on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Covid-19 was just the pin that burst the bubble. But the artificial bubble that central banks had inflated since the Global Financial Crisis more than a decade ago was looking for a pin.

Oddly enough, 105 has been a special number for me ever since I was a kid. My bicycle license from when I was 6 years old is one of the few items I still have from my early childhood:

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