Hola ..
This morning, I decided to have breakfast and coffee at a Mom & Pop place I sometimes frequent .. the buzz was all around an impending shutdown for eateries / bars, etc .. and, being that I pretty much live in the Red Belt, it was all about the Governor has no power to shut down anything and neither does the Health Dept ..
Well, I don't know the legalities of it all, but I don't think there is any conspiracy involved .. the numbers are the numbers .. logic would say, if the numbers are on the rise, that's not a good sign, what should we do to protect the general populace .. ??
Of course, around here, the ongoing theory is people are not really dying from Covid in the high numbers, it's that the Medical Industrial Complex is simply marking even non-Covid deaths as being Covid .. and, people believe it ..
During the last shutdown, some independent places stayed open in defiance of the order .. they were not punished, that I know of, in any substantive way .. chains and franchises did abide ..
In my area, we still have a good portion of folks that are non-maskers .. places have given up trying to get them to mask up, simply because of the blow-back these folks throw out when asked to follow the clearly posted rules .. a minimum wage employee is not and should not, be an enforcer ..
As well, jobs go begging .. there is hardly a place that does not have a Help Wanted sign .. and, I just don't understand it .. I guess folks are just choosing to stay home and are still collecting unemployment ..
Dr. Birx carefully explained early on that if a person died and happened to also have Covid19 they were counted as a Covid case even though some other countries didn't count them that way. Didn't make sense to me at the time and still doesn't, but it probably explains why some people don't believe the numbers. I know of 2 women in the medical field who were pretty sick with what they were sure was Covid and were told they weren't sick enough to be hospitalized so they wouldn't give them a script to get the Covid test. Actually one of the women was told by a doc after she was back at work that he was sure she had had Covid. Also, my daughter's neighbor went to be tested and after waiting for something like 2 hours just left and went home without being tested. She later was notified by mail that she tested positive. It was on the news where death certificates had to be corrected because deaths were being "assumed" to be Covid when they weren't. So no, I don't believe the numbers, not that that makes any difference.
I was thinking of you earlier today when I was at the grocery store doing a large shopping trip. Haven't done one of those in quite awhile. I'd shopped all the produce and was back at the meat cases when it suddenly occurred to me that I didn't have my mask on! I never go anywhere without it and usually put it on before I even get out of the car and there I was, bare faced! Nobody said a word to me and I bet I was the only person in the whole store without a mask. Guess my head was just filled with all the things I didn't want to forget and forgot all about the mask!
The other day Mike said he saw a guy in a local convenience store wearing a headband over his mouth. And he had to move the headband away from his mouth to talk. Duh. Generally though, it's rare around here to see anyone without a mask.
I have no idea why anyone would think wearing or not wearing a mask is political except that the media makes EVERYTHING political theses days. It doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice to just wear one while out and around other people, but some people are obsessed about it. We had a neighbor all upset because her neighbor was alone, in his own back yard trimming a bush and was not wearing a mask.
