What will happen next?

The situation at the gas stations is getting worse and worse. My sister wasn't able to fill gas for the past several days, mainly because she didn't have the need to wait more than an hour in line (although she was able to fill some today after a half hour wait). Yesterday, after she saw that the line stretched all the way to the autostrade, she curved back in to go home. Another car sped past her, and cut right in front, essentially aiming at the front of the line without waiting for long. The guys at the station started talking to him, but as is expected in such situation, talk morphed quickly to shouts, to pushing, to a slight fight, until he decided to finally drive off. That is nothing compared to what happened at the station near her school, when the computer teacher went to "fill" his tank, and came back after 15 minutes since he heard a gun being fired at the station. In addition to the 1000 lives that have been removed from this world, nerves have been shot. People have been bussed out of Chiah after the kind warning Israel gave them, and TV stations are announcing that there is a 75% unemployment rate. It was announced that Tyre will run out of food in the next several days. Eventually the number of people who resort to crime - since they have to "eat to live and steal to eat" - will increase, and the pressure on an already crushed country will compound without bound. That is, of course ignoring the 1e6 people who don't even have homes. The 1e3 at my mother's school are already troubled with "hair issues", which is further proof of the speed with which diseases can spread. Hospitals are running out of fuel. Even if the war ends tomorrow, these problems won't disappear Winter will set within a few months, and who knows how that will end. Unfortunately, our impotent political class has done very little to ease the pains of a nation, not that they were expected to since they have been a failed lot since as long as I can remember. Will they lose their standing in Lebanon? Probably not. And that is Lebanon's loss. As it always is.

posted by Lazarus, 1:10 PM