The brown shirts have arrived.

Or at least there are incipient signs of something similar to the brown shirts of Germany. There have been a couple of news about voter intimidation or some kind of intimidation going on. In Virginia sometime in September, a bunch of Trump supporters seemingly appeared to block the entrance to the voting building. Then I saw a video where the news host discussed about poll watchers standing around with guns while people were voting. Then last Friday, there was a Texas Trump caravan that surrounded a Biden bus and appeared to make an attempt to push a car off the road. And finally, a bunch of Trump supporters were honking and making loud noises at a Biden rally, drowning him out.

Somebody mentioned that it’s only a matter of time before they progress to violence, although the caravan trying to push a car off the road is pretty close to it.

To me, this is a start of the brown shirt activity.

Tomorrow we’ll be voting, so I wanted to keep the image of “the end is nigh” because the times feel very scary. We are probably entering the most riskiest period of time where everybody is on tenterhooks.

The other thing to note is that the coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are still rising. This past weekend we probably crossed the Rubicon where our daily average will be higher than the peak during the summer. This time, it is not just one area of the US but all areas of the US that are facing the surge. This time, it is not just the metropolitan areas that are getting slammed but the rural areas too. In the spring and summer the surges occurred in one area of the US at a time and mostly in the metropolitan areas, so some unaffected states were able to send resources such as nurses, doctors and PPE to areas facing the surge. This time, all regions of the US will be facing a shortage of resources and capacity, so no one will be able to send their nurses and doctors; the rural areas stand to be hurt the most by these constraints since those areas already do not have the full resources to combat the coronavirus. Add on top of all of this the flu season. Add on top of that, the constant maskless Trump rallies.

Reports have been noting that deaths are on the rise but my Power BI are not really showing that. It shows only the Midwest with rising death cases but if you look at the US as a whole, the daily deaths look flat. I suspect that this flat line status won’t last for long.

In regards to those Trump rallies, news reports are indicating that research are finding those rallies to be super spreaders. It is not hard to see why: a bunch of people getting together without social distancing and wearing no masks is bound to be a perfect condition for the coronavirus. Do enough rallies and the virus will infect people. This is just not a surprise.

I would not be surprised if by Thanksgiving people are in hospitals dying. Some may even regret attending those rallies. They might even come to the conclusion that the Trump administration was selfish and did not care about its voters. Just having those rallies without masks is a sign of extreme selfishness. And having those rallies that strands people in the cold with no transportation back to their cars is another sign of extreme selfishness. You would think after the first botched incident in Omaha, Nebraska, the campaign would learn to plan transportation back to the parking lot after the rallies, but nope, the same fiasco happened again in Pennsylvania and Georgia. The campaign doesn’t seem to care about their rally goers because they plan transportation to the rally but then seems to make no plans to get them back to their cars.

This is a metaphor for how he will treat his supporters if he wins the second term.

I don’t know…with the appearance of the brown shirts and the obtuseness of those rally goers, the world seems dark. Tomorrow will tell us if it gets darker.