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KING OF MEAN EVICTS SON HARRY

In America, a landlord cannot evict a tenant before his lease is up without just cause.  Non payment of rent, or destruction of property might convince a judge to kick a tenant out.  I’m not sure what the landlord-tenant statutes  are in the UK, but it seems King Charles is above the law.  He went ahead and evicted his son  from Frogmore Cottage in England because he didn’t like his  memoir.  I’ve been to court in cases like this, and I can assure you no judge would allow me to evict a tenant because he said something about me that I didn’t like.  But the King of Mean evicts son Harry without the blink of an eye.

King of Mean Evicts Son Harry in a show of pettiness over memoir
King of Mean, Charles of England, evicts son Harry before his lease expires.

I can see where Charles was upset with Harry’s memoir, “Spare.”  It pretty much explained how a 12 year old boy might be depressed when his mother is killed and he is forced to march in her funeral procession. Things got worse for Harry from then on, but he was just supposed to grin and bear it when his emotional well being was  ignored, and his older brother was given all the glory.

It  all makes sense now.  Charles cheated on Harry’s mom, Diana, and ruined her life.  Now he’s cheating his son out of a property that was leased to him by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.  All of which means he doesn’t care if he ruins his son’s life, and has no interest in seeing his beautiful grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, ever again.   At the very least, I would think he’d compensate his son for the 2.4 million dollars he spent on renovating the property before he was forced to leave England six months later.

One might argue that Harry and Meghan left of their own volition.  But if you look back, they were encouraged to leave when they asked to go part time in their jobs. We’re told that the handlers of the monarchy said, “you’re either in or out.  No in between.”  Which didn’t give them a whole lot of choice.  For the sake of their own mental health, they had to find a different path, but they got no sympathy from Charles and William.

The Britons have been mad at Harry lately because of all the things he said about his dad, brother, and stepmother. But did they really want to see him treated in such a cruel way? When the King of Mean evicts son Harry, it may come back to bite him. His royal  subjects might  see him as cold hearted,  callous, and indifferent to the needs of anyone with mental health issues.

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HAVE ROAD RAGE DEATHS INCREASED?

A man was shot to death in my Indiana city  yesterday. It happened in a Kroger parking lot at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon.  Reportedly, it was a case of road rage.  Strange as it may seem, another road rage fatality took place  at approximately the same time in Laurel County, Ky.   Our town is relatively peaceful.  Most serious crimes are drug related.  This is the first crime of its kind that I can remember happening here.  Have road rage deaths increased during the pandemic?

The stress of covid-19 may trigger more homicides due to Road Rage
Have Road Rage deaths increased? Two similar shootings  occurred Tuesday afternoon in neighboring states.

Statistics on covid-19 cases and deaths are updated every day.  It would be interesting to publish a separate set of stats on crimes caused by the stress of the entire pandemic. According to National Public Radio, robberies have declined overall during the pandemic, but shootings and killings are up.

The  BBC reports  domestic abuse has increased by 20% worldwide. Child abuse cases have increased at about the same rate.  According to the National Sexual Assault Hotline, there has been  a 22% increase in monthly calls from people younger than 18.  In the majority of these cases, the perpetrator was a family member, and the abuse was escalating in frequency and severity.

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll, showed  more than half of Americans — 56% –reported that worry or stress related to the outbreak has led to at least one negative mental health effect. Those include trouble with eating or sleeping, drinking alcohol more, frequent headaches or stomachaches, shorter tempers, and other health problems. Among frontline health care workers and their families, 64% reported worsened mental health, as did 65% of those who had lost income.

Consequently, at some point in time, we’ll have to decide which is worse?   The disease itself, or increased violent crime,  poverty, nervous breakdowns, drug overdoses, and all of the other miseries of a prolonged quarantine.

We’re in the midst of a national mental health crisis. Will the the stress of the covid-19 pandemic lead to more cases of  road rage?  I have to believe that it will.