Turbulence

Jack Drachman wondered what the people who followed the Barlow Road in covered wagons to settle the west would think about him using it to escape. They came with great expectations, pursuing their dreams. They established communities that became cities. More people came, hungry for success, willing to sacrifice anything to get it. What would those early travelers make of someone going the opposite direction now? Fleeing the very culture they worked so hard to establish? Could they see what had gone wrong and explain it to him? Was this present decline of America a mere bump in the road or something more?
The chaos had been closing in on him. He hadn't gone into the small town close to him for a couple of weeks because it was too dangerous. The lack of law and order unleashed the worst in people. The last time he went to the store the shelves were mostly empty of everything anyway, except for soap and Kleenex. Everything edible was gone except for barbecue sauce. Mean-looking people were hanging around outside, and the .45 on his hip was probably the only reason he wasn't accosted.
When COVID 19 hit, money-hungry big pharma raced to produce their scary vaccines and profited billions the first year after releasing them. Hmm. That did make one wonder who started the virus. Then, governments that decried human rights violations, suddenly turned fascist; forcing people to take the jab. Kool-Aid drinkers fell into line, but thinking people weren't so sure and objected. You would have to be an idiot to take what the government said at face value, and even more so the pharmaceutical industry. Oh, but the government regulates them...no, the government is owned by them. The government drug pushers never imagined My Body, My Choice would become a slogan used against them.
Jack saw two possible interpretations. One; civilization was declining as it had at times in the past and chaos would ensue, or two; these things were signs of the end. The first could happen without the second, but if the second happened, the first would happen simultaneously. He didn't know which it was, but Jesus said there would be definite signs, and His advice about getting out of Dodge seemed to apply no matter which scenario it was.