Fifty-five years of living and formally studying how people work and doing tons of therapy and yadda.

We've been murdering Black people in the US for years and years and years. The usual response is "Well, you gotta understand. Policing is hard and it's a judgement call and it's unfortunate that so man Blacks end up dead after the cops get hold of them, but ...blah blah blah."

And then a Black guy was murdered during the pandemic and suddenly people care.

I don't care how many years of planning went into it. They would still be batting it about and talking about it but not acting if we didn't have a pandemic where a third of Americans are failing to pay their rent and presumably similar shit is happening in Germany.

Edit: The PC term for it is "political will." It's easier to get a deal like this if you have a huge and obvious disaster ongoing to help justify it.