Pandemic Realignment

So here we go.  The message nationally is as clear as it is baseless.  The text is that we should be careful and that our safety is in our own hands.  We choose.  But the subtext is very clear.  If it is reopened it must be safe to do.  July will tell us just how terrible an idea that is.  We had yet another day f deaths over 20 in one day in Iowa.  Worse yet, the public health website is hiding that fact, showing deaths to be dropping, when in fact they are not.
I really hope that this big gamble will not be a disaster, because the people I have seen in stores and at gas stations on my only trip out of my very small bubble did not look like people who were without risks.  And now that there is protesting on the street, public outrage that is long overdue about the treatment of people of color by the police in the United States, now that they are not just risking COVID, but also bodily injury, I can only hope that it will work out.  In the meantime the president postures, looks for reasons to impose martial law, to have a military coup.  It is like a Grateful Dead song of my youth:
Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green, or proletarian gray
Selling guns instead of food today
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down