More changes but more steady as she goes, too. The covid landscape is barren as tundra yet the stock market is hitting new highs again. Curious, to me. People are grinding down to a halt financially and the housing market is still booming? Who is buying the houses? Who has that kind of money when the average home price in Canada is 400K? Well. In fact, the unemployment rate is not that severe. It stands at 8.6 % across the board. Even at it’s height, I think it didn’t hit more than 15 or 16%. That would indicate to me that 84% of working folks did not lose their job. Maybe that is where all the money for houses and equity investments comes from? Musicians, entertainers, hospitality folks and small (very small) businesses are bearing the brunt of loss. That truth I can attest from personal, first hand knowledge. Every entertainer or creative person I know is sitting on their hands and has been for a year! That’s where the greatest employment problems exist. Most other workplaces are open and running, though with differences, maybe slower output. The farms/greenhouses are rolling away as ever. The Chevrolets keep rolling off the line. We are isolated, suffering yes, but big box stores, fast food, fuel are all running as if nothing were amiss. The giant corporations are raking in the cash. It is a strange day.
I am growing more fearful of the difficult folks, the ones who have always been in the background – waving their guns and displaying their disregard for any but themselves, shouting their disdain for civility in public, for manners, for respect. They are wildly in the present, though Twitter and Facebook have clamped them down as best they can. Those folks are still stocking up weapons, supplies. Having been brought to the foreground and given the illusion that they are more numerous than they thought puts civility at risk. They don’t believe their own eyes, taking every lie told them as gospel. I actually listened to one misguided soul who was IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING waving her filth around and claimed it was Antifa? She just doesn’t have a clear view of reality.
I don’t understand Hillary’s deplorables and their desire to lock the rest of the world up. I think they have been led, this time, to believe they face a danger from the folks who have always been on the lower rungs of society. I know they must be thinking that the economic problems and social problems they are falling victim to are the fault of others – minority races, religions. Others? Yes. They don’t see that the danger they face from others is from the likes of Trump. He and the party of infidels he fronts for do not have the common man and his or her difficulties in mind. Not at all. The deplorables don’t see that. Before, when I knew them growing up, they just were wacked out. Bold, yes but on the sidelines. Now, they are front and centre — screaming at fellow passengers on a plane? fighting about wearing a mask in a store? threatening congress by charging into the capitol? grabbing the headlines and facetiming their crimes, both social and legal? Wow.
And we are locked away from each other? We are in some shit boys and girls.
Robert On The Air 