People experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, March 27, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic (CNS/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Amazing, isn t it, how quickly life changes, becomes good again, gets resolved? Goes back to normal. Maybe. At least we seem to think so.
We are on our way, the understanding is, to social and, most of all, political normalcy. You can almost hear the sighs of relief. The second long, national nightmare President Gerald Ford s name for the events leading up to and including Richard Nixon s resignation of the American presidency is over.
The question, of course, is to which normalcy are we headed? The one we got accustomed to in the last 30-some years, when after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world was open for business again?