Right now, the local football little leaguers are out in force. They seem to be enacting repairs/maintenance. I don't know what, they are a tedious outfit. When they play they eff and blind like a docker's pub. I find them annoying. But then I would. I don't like loud displays of macho nonsense. Weirdly they have marked out the pitch as if they are going to play. I took a look at the Corona unlock roadmap and it doesn't seem they can play before at least the 29th, and even then I don't know how much activity is allowed - all just in time for the end of the season anyway.
Thing is the lockdown is schizoid right now. People are, as they have been, have been meeting and buying takeout all over the place. If anything it resembles a bank holiday, with people out and about. There is simply a level the government is completely ignorant of. Kids after school hang out as they would normally, pouring over the swings and play areas, the older ones have come to treat the place like a rubbish bin. Litter is everywhere, with some vandalism. It's sad; I can understand they must have found this period difficult, everyone has. But where are their parents? Where is the discipline? You just can't behave like this during this crisis.
Infections are rising in that there Europe. Summer holidays will of course be encouraged because capitalism. Given how slack we have been in dealing with international travel it now appears we have become the sick old man of Europe. Spreading our special, flag shagging, variant across the continent. They must be so grateful; literally sick of us. I can't blame them, but the fault lies with our toxic government.
Meanwhile the antilockdown crowd are, once again, out protesting. I sometimes think they'll be out protesting after lockdown lifts. They will never understand the science and why it matters, and that's just sad. So far the cops haven't cracked down on them, but that's because they aren't seen as a threat to the capitalist hegemony. I doubt any of them are socialist or anti capitalist. Quite the opposite; many will be the anti-antifa types, ready to take a bullet for a statue at a moment's notice. That isn't to say they aren't dangerous, after all fascist flags were unfurled at an earlier protest.
Tragically there is more impetus among these people, a collection of misguided cranks and desperate believers, than across the moribund electoral left. That ought to change
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