Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Why have we spent all these years wearing shirts and shoes into businesses??

 

Because we keep hearing the mocking tone of Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" in our ears.
"No shirt, no shoes, no dice."

 

I'm referring to GOVERNMENT-MANDATED orders. The kinds that close businesses.

 

Ask Greg Abbott. He thinks he can run The Republic with an iron fist.

When he gets people killed – because what are the odds that the anti-vaxxers and/or COVID deniers claim they're vaccinated, get infected and end up seriously disabled or dead – he just might discover that stupid actions can result in catastrophic consequences.

 

Maybe. They'll. Die.

 

None of this has anything to do with my original question --- what do we do when a pandemic comes along, say, one-quarter or one-fifth as deadly as COVID?

But whatever.

 

Hopefully, overprepare. Better to do so and lighten up than let what happened last year to occur.

Maybe next time, some will actually concern themselves with safety and science over politics. Maybe.

 

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." -- Surprisingly respected high school dropout

 

I have no sympathy whatsoever for anti-vaxxers/COVID deniers who catch it and end up seriously ill. It's on them.

 

Well you're no fun ...

 

My little Cape Cod town's board of health just lifted its outdoor downtown mask mandate. Its chairman is in my golf league, and he said yesterday that once the CDC announcement came out, the board felt it would be impossible not to. Said one of the board's goals in creating covid regulations was to insure maximum compliance. Said there was 99 percent compliance with the outdoor mandate until now, but it was felt that would sink to 9 percent after the CDC's statement. Note: This is a quasi-retirement community as well as a summer resort destination. Median age of residents is like 60. Vaccination rates high even for highly vaccinated Massachusetts. But I thought his point was well taken. There's not much use in crafting guidelines and/or mandates that people aren't going to accept.