Long discussion in Post of the possible causes for increase in murders this year in America (not occurring elsewhere if article is right).
Thinking of a metaphor for human society--as a nuclear reactor, with police as the control rods absorbing or not the excess neutrons, thereby damping or permitting greater interactions.
One might expand the applicability of the metaphor to the pandemic, with the control rods being the vaccines, masks, lockdowns, etc.
You'd have to expand the discussion to include the rates of the radioactivity of the alternative materials which could be used for a reactor. (I'd assume that radium, for example, could explode given the right setup.)
Back to homicide--it seems to me one effect of the pandemic likely has been to change the characteristics of the public, those who are active in exchanges with others. During the past year the "public" has become younger and poorer as the old and the better-off have been much better able to reduce their time in public. That might well mean that the remaining "public" is more reactive, somewhat as if the uranium was more highly enriched.
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