Stay tuned for our new re-re-opening now scheduled for August
21st, 2035.
As states allow
businesses to open, immune systems are shutting down. This past weekend
saw an astonishing jump in the number of COVID 19 cases. Much of this
took place in the South. But it’s happening everywhere.
It’s pointless to
mention figures here because even if you’re looking over my shoulder as I
write, the numbers will change before the next auto-save.
This wasn’t supposed to
happen. And an awful lot of people thought it wouldn’t. And an awful lot
of that awful lot were in positions to make reopenings happen … or prevent
them.
To paraphrase a
Churchill quotation in John Bolton’s 500 plus page Name-Drop-O-Rama book:
We see a problem and ignore it until it’s too late. Then we solve it with what
might have worked if we acted fast enough. But now it doesn’t.
We didn’t seem to learn
much during the strict days of the early shutdown. Shut us down again and
we’ll all stay home and try to find a vaccine for cabin fever. We
won’t. So when the next loosening comes, we’ll be ready to descend on the
nearest saloon or Starbunkles or anywhere else with more than five stools or
tables.
This is not a big city
issue. It happens proportionately in every whistle stop in the rurals and
every TickyTacky plantation in the suburbs.
Stay home except for
short, well-masked trips to the grocery, a medical appointment or in an
emergency. If you want to socialize, there’s always Skype or Zoom. Binge
watch reruns. Read. Tend to your plants. Rearrange your sock
drawer.
This pandemic won’t last
forever.
NOTES FROM ALL OVER:
(JACKSON, MS.) -- The
Mississippi House of Representatives has voted to remove the Confederate emblem
from the state flag. The governor says he’ll sign the bill if it passes
in the senate. A new condition: the new flag must include the words “In God We
Trust.” Most of us’ll pick God over Jefferson Davis any day.
(PRINCETON, NJ) --
Woodrow Wilson has left the building. Princeton will remove his name from its
public policy school. Woody’s racist past finally caught up with him 96 years
after his death.
(NEW YORK) -- New York
State is thinking of quarantining visitors from high volume COVID States like
Florida. This leads us to the…
Quote of the Day: “Welcome to New York. See you in two weeks.”
-- MarketWatch columnist Ellis Henican.
(BILLINGS MT) -- Nothing
worth passing along happened in Montana Sunday. But after reading the Billings
Gazette Sunday newspaper, we thought we hadn’t mention Billings here in maybe
12 years. We also were able to determine that probably nothing worth passing
along ever happens there.
About the Bolton book:
If this were a novel it would be gripping reading but no one would believe it.
Bottom line: Five hundred pages of name dropping -- about the same length as
Moby Dick and also about a whale. And do we really need something like
this to know what trump is really like?
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them.
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2020
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