Thanks to Covid-19, America came to a screeching halt right around March 15, 2020. All clocks might as well have stopped, too, because they pretty much ceased to be consulted. Unless your classes, work, appointments, etc., were able to continue online, they simply ended. Ultimately, for most of us, the "safer at home" campaign lasted until right around May 1st. Good thing, too! Because about that time, people whom you never would have expected to have such a flimsy grasp on sanity, went nuts.
In more ancient times, primitive peoples looked to the heavens or to objects they embued with the power of a god for explanations for whatever was going wrong in their neck of the woods. Turns out that we modern, twenty-first century people, only thought we had transcended that approach.
The short version is, until the riots started, I could've sworn we were just ONE meme away from throwing all the grandmas down the nearest volcano to save ourselves.
