{"id":52099,"date":"2020-04-01T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52099"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:54:02","slug":"its-only-a-matter-of-time-until-covid-19-lockdowns-lead-to-civil-unrest-and-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52099","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Only a Matter of Time Until COVID-19 Lockdowns Lead to Civil Unrest and Violent Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s Only a Matter of Time Until COVID-19 Lockdowns Lead to Civil Unrest and Violent Crime <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

(March 31, 2020<\/em>)  The United States of America is basically closed for business, leaving citizens jobless, broke, and without options. We\u2019re facing restrictions on movement the likes of which our nation has never seen. The stores that are open have never fully restocked after the \u201cpanic buying\u201d of previous weeks, leading to shelves barren of things like meat, flour, toilet paper, and rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s only a matter of time before these issues combine to become the flashpoint that leads to an explosion of civil unrest and violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The financial situation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unemployment skyrocketed, with 3.3 million claims last week<\/a>, and the Fed estimates that number to climb to a whopping 47 million<\/a> due to the virus. Many of these jobs may not come back after the Covid-19 virus has run its course through the nation \u2013 businesses small and large are going to be defaulting on their April rent payments<\/a>, and many simply won\u2019t be able to catch up later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, a lot of people in the area where I\u2019m staying seem to be treating this break of business like a surprise staycation. It\u2019s nice to see families out walking together, playing games, and spending time with the people they love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this happiness may be shortlived. Despite generous government-mandated disaster pay, unemployment, and stimulus checks, the money may not arrive in time for former employees, self-employed people, and gig workers to pay their personal bills. And when the money does arrive, for many folks it isn\u2019t going to be the same amount they were earning before the shutdowns. Most people don\u2019t have emergency funds<\/a>, so things will be dire in short order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this affects landlord, mortgage companies, utility companies, retail businesses\u2026the list could go on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Only a Matter of Time Until COVID-19 Lockdowns Lead to Civil Unrest and Violent Crime (March 31, 2020)  The United States of America is basically closed for business, leaving citizens jobless, broke, and without options. We\u2019re facing restrictions on movement the likes of which our nation has never seen. The stores that are open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,7],"tags":[28817,2346,6156,5756,824],"class_list":["post-52099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-coronavirus","tag-crime","tag-daisy-luther","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52100,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52099\/revisions\/52100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}