Good Morning:
:: Of all the millions of things COVID and the consequences of pro-action/reaction to the disease have done to the world my absolute least favorite is that people feel they've been forced to choose a side. Much like everything else that gets "debated" in this world you get labeled if you fall on one side or the other. I absolutely effing hate it. You would think the one thing we could all get behind is doing everything we can to eradicate a virus and prevent a pandemic.
:: The fact is three elderly people are dead in Maine because they came in contact to people that went to a wedding that did not follow protocol and the officiant of that wedding keeps holding services that don't follow CDC guidelines. This kind of irresponsibility in unconscionable. 140-ish people decided, "what will be will be," and it ended up killing three people that weren't at the venue.
:: I have a circle and it keeps getting smaller and sicker. H's uncle has tested positive, lost his sense of smell, and has spent the better part of the last 10 days away from my nieces. One guy he works with went to a hot spot then came back to work and infected 15 people.
:: I know of a 300+ person wedding that happened around here recently. This **** just pisses me off to no end. Even at the "acceptable" positive test rate of 5% that's still 15 people that can potentially infect others. How many places do those 15 people go a day? If those 15 people think it's OK to go to a 300 person wedding in an enclosed space does that mean they're all good with going to hot spots? It's **** like this that are going to keep those restrictions we so desperately hate in place.
:: The thing about this is we have to come to grips with the fact that we are a nation of selfish ********. We are in it for ourselves and our families. We are all about the personal freedom to do and say whatever the Hell it is we want. The pandemic is thriving on this. People are having the hardest time realizing that they can/will infect others. The more people start protecting themselves for the sake of others the quicker we can get back to full stadiums.