"...business"

There has been a second mass shooting in this country in less than a week. This time a grocery store. 10 people were gunned down for no known reason. This could be a sign of a return to American normality. 

Here in the Emerald City there has been a steady increase in pointless murders. Last night a person was shot for no reason on 38th Street Manhattan. Local 'hood shootings are again routine. Most of these events are not connected to robberies or the traditional crimes of passion. 

They're just happening. 

Perhaps making up for lost time. This town was by the numbers as safe as Wyoming for most of the Pandemic. As the players were in lockdown. With the soon leveling of the Pandemic the removal of a disturbed head of state, and an apparent return to a kind of normality in mind if not fact. The American tradition of shooting each other for the hell of it is has come back. 

Before the Pandemic we were numb this. So tuned it out. However COVID over took it. Instead of hundreds shot each month. Thousands died every week sometimes every day from the Virus.

We seem now to be going back to business as usual. The experience of enduring more than a Half Million perished has not made us better wiser or stronger. We're still the same oblivious cowardly bigoted selfish people we always were.