A Journal of the Plague Year

Trump is deploying the military to New York and other parts of the Northeast.

Justin Trudeau has just announced that he is calling up all reservists, on a voluntary basis. He presents this as a make-work project for the unemployed. But I doubt that’s what it’s about.

In either case, the real worry is that under the stress of the pandemic and the lockdown, social order will break down. People are going to get desperate for food. Police are going to be out sick, or calling in sick because they are afraid to go to work.