Three California crises spawn a fourth

The year is scarcely half over and California is experiencing an unprecedented wave of traumatic events, to wit:
—A pandemic that has infected hundreds of thousands of Californians and already has claimed more than 7,000 lives;
—A very severe recession, spawned by the pandemic, that has erased millions of jobs and has hammered state and local government budgets; and
—Civil and political unrest over how people of color, 60%-plus of the residents of this politically blue state, a