The Economy Wins out over the Virus

The economy has now won over the virus.  The unemployment rate today fell from 14.7% to 13.3%  This is quite a feat.  Trump will score political points off of this. It sure surprised me but one imagines that it didn’t surprise Trump one bit.  He’s been expecting it.  He’s been expecting the economy to come roaring back.  June should look even better.  Of course with all these mass protests going on people have forgotten almost all about the virus and thrown caution to the wind.  Now we’re back to having massive funerals for the fallen.   We still get these never ending public addresses from government officials on top of one another.  Mayor Garsetti still delivers almost a major address every day and so does California's governor.  Yesterday Governor Newson made some executive proclamations.  He banned the caradid artery choke hold statewide yesterday.  This one was banned in LA nearly thirty years ago because "Black people don't have normal veins like the rest of us" and too many of them were dying.  Now the governor has stated that officers nowhere in the state should be trained in the caradid artery hold that cuts off blood flow to the brain to get the victim to pass out.  In terms of around here we are still in lockdown.  Now they are saying it will be the end of June that at last we can go out shopping and be free from the gates.  Continually they are relaxing restrictions for everything else given "safe social distancing".   But if all businesses are opperating at only half or a third capacity this will continue to put a dent in the economy for a long time.  They say it could be years before airline travel gets back to the levels it was at last year.

It dawned on me that what we need is "Peace" of the sort of inner peace they talk about in the Bible, or at least I do.  But it's not like some hippy saying "Peace, brother".   No.  When it's God that's saying it the words have a lot more authority then if they came from a human being.  God is the person who runs things after all and holds the future and if he promises you peace, at least hypothetically you need not fear the future.  Of course I was thinking this morning of what the worst sin might be.  Presumption is kind of an ugly sin to many human beings.  I certainly would now what to "presume" when it comes to God.  That is having the right to expect that just because God did something for me once he would do it every time.  In this way I would get an inflated view of myself and my own worth and my own status before God.  That's how I feel anyhow.   I know other Christians out there act as if God is their own errand boy or something and lack humility.

These entries aren't very long I know these days.  Maybe I'll stick some vintage material in sometime.