05-19-2020, 10:14 PM
(05-18-2020, 05:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-18-2020, 03:54 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It may be that a state like Massachusetts can open earlier and safer than can Georgia. If there is any lasting effect it will be that populist disdain for scientific evidence will be less common.
We're opening shortly in Massachusetts, and in steps. It is similar to New York, in phases, by the numbers, with potential for steps backwards if (or more accurately, when) outbreaks are detected. My sister grumbled in a phone call today that we older people are step 4 of 4, but we both have every intent of complying. The basic blue alliance of states scheme.
We both also agreed that we had seen lots of people out walking, pretty well following distancing rules. I would likely be out too but for my traditional May pollen allergies. In addition to the conoravirus no going out, the windows are staying closed and the air filter is running.
Does a truck hit by a kid driving a golf cart violate distancing? If so, we had a violation yesterday.One of the local adults runs a golf cart company. Have you ever wondered where old golf carts go to die? Our lake is full of them.
Indeed, Michigan is already planning to open up... first, the Upper Peninsula and the northern counties of the Lower Peninsula -- about June 1. If I went up north I would still wear a mask and practice social distancing. I am from a toxic part of the state.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.