Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I remember when Ford was president he'd vacation in Aspen or Vail, and always bring Coors back with him to the White House.

We used to drive to Montana to get it every once in a while. It's still my go-to beer.

 

very funny

also blows up the idea he was being 'sarcastic.'

 

Well, for now it seems inapt, because most people couldn't care less about the absolute shoddiness of kids' education at the moment. We're 6 weeks in and still in "how high will the death toll go?" mode. But when you balance the value of in-person education and socialization for kids - you know, the value of public schools, which we do not have right now - against "because science," the conversations shifts the longer school is out and the more education is missed. Ditto for church, and sports, and concerts, and...life as we know it.

We're going to get to June 1 and have 80 and 90-degree temps all over the place and we're going to tell 100 million Americans...what exactly? They can't go outside for anything but socially distant walking? They can't have people in parks, or at beaches, or camping, or in theaters, or eating out, or in church, or on vacation, or in childcare while parents work? No, I somehow doubt we will. Because the deeper we get into summer, the more "OK, we've sat around for months now, we're tired of listening to political leaders enforce inconsistently-made edicts and lean on science and media to justify it" sentiment grows. It's not like a majority of Americans have to feel that way, either. 30-40% makes an awfully loud noise when it comes to stuff like this.

These are not, like aberrant thoughts, really. It's imagining the conversations we might have over the next few months.

 

KOOLS, missing them since 6/19/91.

 

It's only idiotic if equate the value of the two things the same. Kids aren't learning much remotely. Kids without good Internet or devices to learn on aren't learning a thing. How long would you like that to last?

 

Polling firms really need to do cohort / tracking polls on the “open the country” issue to see how support for stay-home policies wanes over time.

 

Until it is safe for them to be back at school.

 

28 hours to get from Atlanta to Texarkana (Texas, not Arkansas) and back with 400 cases of Coors.

Funny thing is that Texarkana, Texas, was dry in the 1970s. They didn't start allowing sales of alcohol in restaurants until 2006. So I don't know if there would have been a beer distributor located there for Bandit and Snowman to pick up the cargo.

 

Round trip. Plus the speed limit being the double nickel at the time. I get it now.

 

Safe for who?