May have said it before but….
An anthropologist whose name I cannot recall said all old pagan religions were about controlling one’s circumstances. If the guy in charge of rain wouldn’t put out when you sacrifice a stringy chicken, you up the sacrifice. Still no joy. Eventually, in desperation, you pitch somebody’s kid into the nearest volcano. And it rains. It always rains because people don’t live where it never rains. So….the Big Sacrifice worked.
And so perhaps it’s human nature to want to sacrifice something serious when catastrophe looms. If Covid had been cured by two aspirin, where would be the fun?
In addition, some people want to be forced to do stupid stuff, the dumber the better, and others want other people forced to do stupid stuff and….Covid worked. The real villain was DeSantis because he didn’t make people do stupid stuff. Putting the infected into nursing homes…..yawn.

As to the Floyd thing, an immense number of people seem to want to be made crazy under the guise of righteousness. Huge number. And they don’t want inconvenient facts. As far as I could tell from the trial, the cops’ body cams had Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s back near the shoulder. Try telling that to the just and the righteous. Either they reject it or consider it irrelevant to their righteous outrage.
It’s a hard lesson to learn, but Greta and family are better off without these folks in their circle.

I shared all your comments with her.

$(Bat) + $(Ball) = $1.10
$(Bat) = $1.00 + $(Ball)
$1.00 + $(Ball) + $(Ball) = $1.10

The numerical answer is left as an exercise.