The highway in front of my apartment building has become a drag strip for motorcycles. Their high pitched whines like nails on chalkboard.
Every weekend there are over a hundred stunt driving arrests.
I’ve seen vehicles drive over the lawn instead of going a few feet more to the entrance of the shopping mall.
Cars speed up when they see pedestrians crossing the road, or refuse to apply brakes to at least slow their trajectory.
Bicyclists ignore traffic lights, I’ve almost been hit twice now, and they swear at me and give me the finger.
In Providence they have a colossal problem with ATV drivers who go through red lights and gang up on car drivers and beat them up.
The Greek Church next door blatantly disregarded the law (both lockdown and noise regulations) and had a huge outdoor party in August and kept the entire neighbourhood up, blasting music and shouting until 2 a.m. They still adamantly have their festival and lure hundreds to eat and drink and dance and shout past midnight for 14 days running (though they think they are clever and for covid reasons have reduced it to two-3 day weekends in a row instead, for now.) My opinion is this: If you are stupid enough to be in a crowd of hundreds of people and whoop it up for hours during a pandemic, well…)
In our stores we have anti maskers who scream in your face and can’t mind their own business, and anti-vaxxers who storm buildings (even the wrong ones) in protest.
Our pandemic world looks a lot like Mad Max’s world, post apocalypse.
I am hoping it is just backlash to being confined so long, albeit a very immature and selfish backlash. Go out and expend your energies cleaning up the trash instead of being trash. Instead of wild parties that destroy everything in their wake, including lives, use that energy to help someone fix up their house, go shopping for them, do something useful. Like, I need even say this?