It's Getting Different

The county has put us under an eight pm to five am curfew for a week or so.  Is this adding insult to injury?  Life was starting to get back to normal for us.  Well, to be honest, it's been getting better for me.  Barb is still curtailed for most of her recreational activities.

But for me golf is a go and pickleball getting there.  A lot of the pickleballers are being very cautious of playing with "strangers" and are reluctant to split up family teams.  We are not sitting near each other.  Interestingly about four of the PBers have been tested for the virus and no one has contracted it. 

There is supposed to be 50 cases or so in Livermore with a population of about 100,000.  It's not widespread assuming the numbers are reasonably correct.

I have some golf tomorrow and I'm excited to play.  I've made some changes and they seem to be useful.  But contact with the enemy is the true test of a great plan.  I'll report back with any results of note.

So we are supposed to shelter in place.  There has been a lot of police cars positioned around the various malls.  There is an outlet mall near the driving range.  Lots of highend clothes and hand bags, etc., and there was a police car there this morning.  I don't think rioters like to get up early, so it seemed to be a wasted effort.  They probably should have been getting some sleep instead. 

No rioting or protests have happened locally yet.  The curfew is new as of today. 

As I think back on it, I've experienced a few days of rage in my life time.  Probably the first was the Democratic convention of 1968.  Then there were riots in Detroit.  As a family we were going to visit my grandparents and they lived in Marine City Michigan.  We normally drove through Detroit to get there.  It was a freeway and even with the "problems" we did on this occasion.  I don't remember being able to see any rioting debris as we passed through.

I remember the Watts riots, but I was living in Illinois at the time and remember no details.  I couldn't tell you the dates. 

Civil unrest seems to show up on occasion and we were probably overdue, if one thinks this stuff comes naturally as cycles in the climate.   The educational establishment is very liberal -- and not in a classical sense -- these days.  Are the current problems the outgrowth of this new (is it new?) slant to higher education.  I tend to think that higher education has little impact on society.  The academic life seems to be a strange one.  I've seen glimpses of this as I've followed the climate change debate.  Are the overly educated young a big part of the current troubles?   And is education to blame?  Maybe we will find out!

So that is the news.  Sorry for all the foreshadowing, the real stories are yet to be known or written.