I am curious as to how Biden is, or if he is, going to explain the differences between where things stand now in various states. On the one end of the continuum, we have California now telling people to double mask. On the other end, South Dakota’s restrictions were minimal in the first place. A blue state like Conn. has opened up more than other blue states. Some red states got rid of mask mandates. Some promise to in April.
In Ohio, where we supposedly have an R governor, on paper at least, we may get to burn masks when cases drop below 50 per 100k for two weeks. So I guess Biden can’t call us Neanderthals. Maybe we are just Cro Mags.
I’d like to be a Neanderthal, though. Devolution is cool. It seems everyone is doing it.
Anyway, all these variances across the states seem to be a perfect set up for incoherency from Biden should he try to address them, not that he needs a set up for incoherency.
(I can’t wait to read Kurt Schlichter’s or Stephen Green’s takes on the speech tonight.)
I’ll spend the day in mourning for our republic.
It’s interesting to me how this has impacted my own mental health. Initially it didn’t bother me. I’m hearing all of these pronouncements of sorrow over a lack of social interaction, offices closed down, entertainment venues shuttered, but I didn’t find those to impact me so much.
What really bugs me is going out into the world and being reminded of the fear and inanity of it all. Even though we live in a rural part of Florida, people are still wearing masks in hardware stores, grocery stores, even while out walking, and for what? Fear? A lack of basic scientific reasoning? I want so badly to go up to one of them and ask their reason, but I don’t know that’ll make me feel any better.
I’m not upset about the social isolation. I’m part of a generation that finds at least some social solace through online interaction, but the fact that every time I go out to the store or even just for a drive, I’m seeing people still believing these masks are saving them from something, and that’s what makes me sad. There will never be a return to normalcy. I’ve become a pariah because I refuse to wear a mask. How quaint.
2020 was the year of the Father of Lies.
Its almost like are experts are idiots?
I can’t imagine they are just in it for the money.
The democrats are so honest and trust worthy.
The would never exploit the population for their own gain.
bump