Not that it’s anything new, the United States has once again turned on the poor, and is going to put unknown numbers of people on the street.

Get ready to see the initial footage of furniture and trash bags full of clothes, dishes and everything you can imagine lining the sidewalks in front of suburban homes, apartments and condos, and row homes in neighbor hoods you wouldn’t choose to live in, but had no choice and, in time, made it your home. A home you will now be unceremoniously kicked out of.

The moratorium or ban on evictions for not being able to pay rent during the COVID-19 crisis has expired as of 31 July. It means, in simple terms, that landlords who were kept from kicking people out until that date are now at liberty to get court ordered eviction notices. These have a humiliating and terrifying effect on the recipients. People have been known to see this notice scotch-taped to their front door and go into shock or even have heart attacks. For many people it is a death sentence because they have no way to stop the process and no other place to live.

If they were unable to pay rent or a mortgage, what makes anyone think that they have the money to move, much less rent some other place?

I SAW THIS COMING

As seen in this article on CNN there’s nothing right or good or merciful about to happen. What’s worse is, if I knew this would happen, then the excuse Speaker Pelosi gave about not getting informed until that last minute is a bold-faced lie. Not just an excuse, mind you, but a fucking confession of uncaring distance: “I knew it was time but I was busy.”

She and everyone else in congress knew and a last-minute attempt by the House to pass emergency measures didn’t even make it despite a Democratic majority.

That’s a signal, America. Your elected government has finally backed out of its obligation to represent everyone, especially the sick and the poor.

I don’t understand the Biden Administration. With Trump I expected heartlessness, but not with Biden. Biden has proudly announced that progressives hate him because he’s not progressive, yet he’s not even a fucking moderate. He too has a lame excuse for letting the moratorium pass, although a week earlier he told everyone that he had concerns about people not going back to work because their benefits for unemployment were still coming in. I’ve never heard such bullshit from a Democrat. Not with circumstances anything like a crisis. And I know COVID-19 is the biggest crisis of my lifetime, but to hear such bullshit from a democratic president is out of place and far away from what I could have imagined. He said, in effect, “Go ahead and put the lazy motherfuckers on the streets.”

CDC RECOMMENDS RENEWED PRECAUTIONS

Hand washing, facemasks indoors, it’s back to square one because unvaccinated people are dying. New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising. Misinformation is compounding everything happening. We are already in for what I’ve said was bound to happen. And if people call me negative they’re not wrong. I’ve maintained since early last year that in any closed system, predictability is bullshit. Impossible. Chaos maths dictate it. History bears that out. Human behavior is not geared toward self-preservation, but destruction and extinction. Wars alone prove that much. And even in war, nothing specific can reliably be predicted, just as no chess player can accurately predict every move during a match, no matter how they have mastered the game, and so it is with any war, right down to specific battles. Who, among German high command, could have predicted what Patton did with his divisions during the Battle of the Bulge? And even if they could have known, who could believe it was even possible? Even his peers thought he was nuts. Until he did it.

Dealing with unpredictable situations is not a strength of humanity. Overkill or the lack of a reaction. The in between grows less likely with every second.

We are seeing a lack of a reaction right now. Even when it was known that the Delta variant was reported in every state, restrictions on social distancing and wearing masks indoors were being removed. How fucking stupid can people get?

The Biden administration bitterly complains that misinformation has hampered the vaccination process. But what about people who are vaccinated? Can they be carriers? Can they, in other words, infect others who are not vaccinated? The numbers and the rate of spread led me to believe that it was not just possible, it was happening. Dr. Fauci has since confirmed this as fact.

The news is vague. “Most new cases…are unvaccinated…”

Most? See, journalists don’t know shit. Vaccines are definitely desirable; we know from the numbers that cases rapidly decreased because of them. But lax attitudes toward the virus in parts of the country meant it never went away. One misconception I hear is that before Delta, COVID-19 had gone away. That’s not true.

The renewed recommendations are an obvious indication that health experts know it’s a whole new ballgame. But I go into stores and people aren’t masked. They aren’t disinfecting shopping cart handles. The risks being taken are equal to the premature lifting of safety procedures and restrictions. Cases did, in fact, almost immediately rise.

Keep this in mind when the evictions start. When neighbors vanish.

There’s been talk of help from the White House. But Biden does not want to be seen as soft on people who don’t want to work.

Pelosi’s expression of concern led us to believe that last minute help would come.

That will not happen. It’s vacation time for our pissant, self-absorbed, lazy elected representatives. Because, fuck you, America. I’m going after a trophy marlin. Have fun dumpster diving you sleazy common people.

I believe that this country as it has been is doomed. Until such time as there are more people who care about others than those who do not, and caring people run for political office, we are doomed.

What will be left?

I’m sorry. Chaos theory says there’s no way to answer that except to say, it’ll be a much worse place to live. As if God Himself had come to smite a land already marked by blood and a history of being run by uncivilized barbarians who had their chance and blew it.

Divine retribution or karma. They always get their way.

I’m deeply sorry for starting your week on a story this depressing and disgusting. Do stay informed. Visit the WHO, CDC and sites like BBC News and CNN to keep misinformation down. Tell others what you learn. Wear double masks, carry hand sanitizer and keep social distances. The future of this country is really in doubt. Don’t make it any worse. Please don’t.