59 days since the World Health Organization declared Covid 19 to be a pandemic.
47 days since the State of Washington told us all to “shelter in place.
9 days since the State of Washington revised the revised order to “shelter in place” which now might expire in 21 days, on May 31, 2020. Or not.
Since this all started, 4,100,788 people in the world have gotten the virus. 1,347,309 of those people are Americans. 280,432 people in the world have died. 80,037 of the dead are Americans. (May 10, 2020)
Despite the numbers of sick and dead, a significant segment of the population of the United States has begun whinging about closures and facemasks and damn it, they want to do what they want to do, and they want to do it NOW!!! To that end, a bunch of men with assault weapons and god knows what stormed the Michigan State House to try to force the governor to allow them to eat at buffets and go to McDonalds and order in. As they were all white men, not a damned has or will happen to them.
The imbecile in chief is encouraging the country to re-open. As he said in the beginning, we can’t have the cure be worse than the disease and besides, its only maybe 3% mortality, why that’s the same as the flu. . . . Math and facts not being the strong suit of the Gang of Old White Men, for the record, in a country of 328.2 million people, a mere 3% is 9,846,000 people. But since the statistics show that world wide, the highest number of dead are elderly and senior citizens and that in the United States, most of the dead are people of color, do we really need to care?
Strong Bramble Cocktail for a Day When the News is Too Much:
1/2 jigger Blackberry Liquor
1 jigger Sloe Gin
1 1/2 jigger Gin–something for mixing, no need to break out the Cotswold Finest
Sparkling Water
Ice
edible flowers
–Combine the alcohol and mix. Add ice. Top with sparkling water. Stir with a stainless steel straw. Toss in some edible flowers. Use straw to drink too quickly while avoiding reading any more news reports. Repeat.
