America is violent. It can be. Look at gun deaths. Suicides. It was more violent in the not too distant past. And it has thrived and profited from that violence. In slavery and in Jim Crow, you can see control and profit and violence. The response to the labor movement was violence. The response to the Civil rights movement of the 60s was violence.

You point to a database of those who have not returned to work in Ohio as being violent. Perhaps. I too often stretch the limits of violence. I see it in music, and rhetoric. I always think of Scorcese's Age of Innocence as a violent film yet I do not think there is even a single brawl or fight in it, much less a murder that takes place. No physical violence.

Well, what we have today, what we have seen since Memorial Day, that tragic absurd obscene video from Minneapolis, and what happened to that police precinct, and is now being brought to other American cities. All of this is tinged with violence or simply is violence.

Violence does not magically appear, nor will it, like the pandemic magically disappear.