Have you heard of the coronavirus parties in Alabama, where young people get together in packed venues and whoever catches it first gets a cash prize?

At first this might seem ridiculous and counter intuitive and it is. But I keep thinking of that scene in School of Rock when the principal of the school is being confronted by all the parents. She’s trying to speak to them and they’re all in her face screaming. So she goes outside and the teacher runs up to her telling her that the kids are gone. (They’ve left for a field trip.)

The smile on her face is funny. It too seems counter intuitive.

But when things are so off track, when they’re so awful horrible, the instinct is actually to laugh.

I think that’s what’s happening with the young people.

They’ve been under so much strain for so very long that with all this doom and gloom they’re just throw it out the window, I’m going to party.

It’s kind of understandable.

But very very sad.

With the death of Nick Cordero, a youngish actor who caught covid 19, and the fact that it’s a very dangerous disease and many of them may well die from it…it’s very sad.

It’s a sign of dysfunction in society. It’s a sign when they’ve got tons of debt from a school degree that shouldn’t have cost them that much, that they’re willing to just be reckless because life is just too much…

May God help us all.