I don’t know that I have mentioned my own status during the “stay at home” directive. My wife and I have been “sheltering in place” since March 16 (before the statewide directive was issued). During that period we have been quite rigorous about using masks when shopping for groceries or other necessaries. Under normal conditions I am a daily shopper. I have limited my shopping expeditions to once every three or four days. I only shop at my beloved Happy Foods to the greatest degree possible. It’s small but the people who shop there are careful and courteous and most have been wearing face masks for weeks.
I’m walking so much, getting so much exercise, and eating so healthfully I’m probably healthier than at any time in the last 40 years.
I’m skeptical that anything that is being done is more than theater but theater is important, too. I’m in full compliance with the directives because I believe it’s important to set a good example for others and contrariwise I wouldn’t want to encourage anybody to do anything that might harm themselves.
It frustrates me to see so many people who clearly don’t give a damn, especially city employees who should know better. Why are they toying with my life and health and prolonging the risks to my livelihood?
This is perfect. Although I’ve heard nothing from him that makes me convinced of Fauci’s intellect, let’s just stipulate that he has it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/crisis-experts-are-themselves-crisis
As for your personal situation, I am sympathetic, and find myself in a similar situation. Except for the move from Naples to Bluffton we have pretty much been good citizens. Limited shopping; lot’s of cycling; lots of work related matters. We even delayed the move for 2 months, at a cost of $10K, before tiring of the delay and fully understanding the absurdity. So we left.
You apparently are of an age, but perhaps not a health status profile, that would suggest you should do nothing but what you are. As for your lament about public workers, you already know the answer – taxes for thee but not for me. You plebe.
There is room for you on the conservative side………… This is truly a crisis of civil liberties. The government control vampires are awakened.
Oh good. If you ever need surgery we will arrange for all the fans at the local football game to come do your surgery rather than one knowledgeable surgery team. Bet that works great. Good thing investors are never wrong. Yup those bank stocks rocketing up in the aughts were worth every penny. (Cant believe I wasted time yet again reading zero hedge. They might know something about finance (buy gold!) but clearly not much about anything else.
Steve
Why?
You have an awareness of your own mortality.
They don’t, as yet .
I believe this separation is necessary for the young to do the things they must.
Their day will come.
We had maybe a hundred goofily dressed protesters at the capital. (Against restrictions.) And one man got in a fight with the convenience store clerk because he had no mask. Went to jail, clerk said before the blows he was yelling about politics. People are fun.
Here in rural Ohio, our county has had only 18 cases, five hospitalizations, and no deaths. People are actually out and about, but not quite to normal. Businesses have implemented various distancing practices. Our medical and veterinary people are the most extreme. My vet only allows one person with pet into her facility at a time. People without pets are excluded.
The buying panic is over, but meat shortages are starting to appear. Kroger is rationing meat purchases. Pasta, rice, and paper products are back, but no rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer. Will stock up for the next panic.
In many states the shutdown rules are absurd. Why in the name of all that is holy was/is the NYC subway operating? How much of NYC’s horrific COVID pandemic is due to its subway? Or Chicago’s El for than matter. Prolonged close contact on a bus or train is far worse than on a beach or in a park or even in a store. If the parks and stores are closed, public transit has to be closed, too.
Why any rational person would live in a city is beyond understanding.
As to Fauci, I am old enough to remember his defense of Robert Gallo when Gallo stole Luc Montagnier’s HIV virus samples and passed them off as his own work. Fauci still defends Gallo. He also mislead people about the Ebola scare some years ago. And he was one of the experts who initially pooh-poohed the COVID danger, and delayed the development of tests.
You’re right, of course, but I doubt that Chicago’s mass transit is much implicated in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 here. Most commuting in Chicago is between the city and the suburbs and the routes served by trains and buses are such that most people don’t use them and haven’t for years.
Steve
Its not zerohedge, its the authors of the pieces. I know your stock in trade is to discount what you don’t want to hear, but then cite (obviously agenda driven) “studies” of issues.
Just evaluate the arguments. Don’t weakly rely on authority. (Authority in todays world – snicker)