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But, to paraphrase a friend of mine on Facebook, people are dying! Yup. And we seem to be at the point that, for most places, continued shut down only spreads those deaths out over time.
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I waded onto FB thru spouse's account a few weeks back. It's remarkable from an anthropological perspective. You can see the people who can think through this thing and spot the essential issue. It's roughly 1/3 of people I observed. Then you have a third that see everything thru a political lens. These people are the morons of the bunch, arguing about blame endlessly. Then you have the scared people who seem to have thought that if they just locked down for a bit, the disease would miss them, like a modern Passover. That last group doesn't seem to grasp the concept of viruses very well, and they seem to be sincerely confused and frightened. Nevertheless, their holding onto an ignorance regarding the operation of viruses - a very attractive ignorance, or perhaps delusion - endangers the rest of us by causing people to think an endless lockdown works.
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Unlike many, though, I don't think there should have been Federal mandates. I don't think there should be state mandates. The situation in Modoc County, CA is completely different from Los Angeles County. LA is slammed with cases and hospitalizations. Modoc is not. Governor Newsom's one-size-fits-all approach is ham-handed and idiotic. If I was a barber, waiter or restauranteur in Modoc, I would be researching how to get Putin to put some Polonium-210 in Gavin's hair gel.
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Alito has compelled our governor to explain in a filing ordered to be sent to SCOTUS on Monday how he selected certain businesses for mandatory closure while exempting others. I don't think he was political, but the lobbyists and people below him are very political. Many unions and trade groups are going to find themselves investigated after this situation ends. The selection of winners and losers was arbitrary in numerous regards.
(I love that throughout this I have watched a developer build an entire housing development down the street, and another put one up a few miles further, despite there being a ban on construction services. I'd be appalled to see a bar, restaurant, or club owner defy the governor as that's high risk stuff. But the ban on construction was silly and I think done opportunistically at the behest of unions. Good on those developers for borrowing from the Uber business model and openly ignoring it.)
