Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Don't threaten me with a good time.

That said, I do wonder what the difference in terms of when it is statistically safe to reopen and when political leaders are willing to admit that.

 

If we *do* see signs of a slowdown in the drop, I'll be the first one to say so. I'm definitely looking for it.

 

Most political leaders are antsy to get things back open. Keeping things shut down is a political loser and they know it. I check the locality numbers every day, and yesterday, the city of Richmond (population 232,866) recorded 41 cases, and it's been trending that way daily of late. I'm not ready to whip my mask off in public yet, but I have very little anxiety anymore about going to the store, the gym, to the usual happy hour hang, etc. If you're telling me there's a 0.017 chance I'm picking up this virus by leaving the house, I'm taking my chances. I have a better chance of getting hit by a car on my daily walk, truth be told.

 

Don’t walk in traffic.

you’re welcome

 

You haven't seen the way people take blind right turns around here when you've got the crosswalk. It's gnarly, man.

 

This virus will not be eradicated. So there will always been some slight level of risk, vaccination or no.

 

Everybody is just itching to declare all clear and rip the masks off, but jumping the gun by months or weeks will end up costing lives.

Remember in late summer, August or so, when numbers were trending down week by week, then there was the stampede to open schools and "get back to normal."

I think more likely we'll just edge down week by week until probably early fall, when we'll look around and say, "guess what, it's over."

 

Us dumb people have been heard enough for long enough. I’m ready for the smart people to be heard. Keep preaching.

 

In California it was just the opposite. Things looked good in May/early June and we thought we were going back and throwing doors open. Then by July, the numbers tanked and all of a sudden all talk of opening schools went out the window.

 

Rip the mask off? No. Slowly reopen as numbers continue to improve while still taking precautions? Yes. It doesn't have to be one or the other. So much absolutism with this stuff.

 

It almost seems anticlimactic, this thing could well go out with a whimper after ruining (in a first-world sense) our lives for a year.

Rick, thanks for returning with your updates.