Aseahawkfan wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/gma/just-crazy-12-major-cities-110800295.htmlWhat do we think is the cause of increased homicide rates in certain areas? Lockdown fever? Political division? Vilification of the police causing them to be less likely to intervene for fear of ending up on the bad end of a Democrat Progressive witch hunt? Or the random ups and downs of human behavior causing a particularly bad year? Some combination of these factors?
Your last answer. All of the above.
Some people think I'm nuts, but I think that the wearing of masks has a lot to do with the increase in violence we've seen since the onset of the pandemic. I go into a grocery store, and I feel as if I'm amongst a bunch of mindless zombies. If someone cuts in front of me, since I can't see their facial expression, I don't know if it was accidental or intentional, and of course, since I'm also wearing a mask, they can't see my facial expressions, either.
I feel (although some of you may disagree) that I am a reasonably levelheaded guy and can handle such a phenomenon without reacting irrationally and wonder how someone else that is not as mentally stable as I might process similar thoughts.