OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — It was a sunny day, the first in about a week when temperatures had climbed past the 50-degree mark, and people in Chicago did what they always do on such a day: They flocked to the shores of Lake Michigan.
That it’s required is stunning, but Americans have show time and again how selfish they can be.
“Sorry folks, Human Civilization’s closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.”
It is going to be a long summer.
Mayor Lightfoot and Governor Pritzker have been phenomenal in their handling ot the Trump Pandemic. Guess that comes from being grown-ups.
I’m taking it seriously. Do not close the state or national parks. Everyone I’ve seen on trails was in their own family group. It’s for mental as well as physical health. I’m old and immuno-compromised. It’s a risk I’m willing to take.
Guess for a change, Russia has been taking Donnie’s lead on things…
It’s an innocent suffering with the guilty thing. You just can’t let people congregate. This virus is just too contagious. And I hate to say it, but we’re a pretty stupid society, if you really want to know.
Years of working retail in my 20’s taught me that. I was nearly where the Unabomber was when I quit.
I guess retail would make a hash of all your efforts to avoid life’s dopes. I mean, everybody buys stuff.
I can understand taking down basketball hoops.
But tennis nets? If there is one sport designed for social distance, its tennis.
I hear you, but disagree.
People will use the public restrooms and other facilities. They won’t be cleaned often enough to keep them virus-free.
Not everyone will keep to a family group.
The park staff won’t have any protection.
You may be willing to take the risk, but if you catch it, would you unknowingly put someone else at risk?
Think about car insurance. Accident-free drivers have to buy it, not just the fender-bender prone.
Not sure whether the balls could carry the virus from player to player, though.
Or the other way around. Bet there has been some chats about propaganda and how to best spread it.
National Parks as reported by the Washington Post. I’ve seen other reports elsewhere about crowds, including cars lined up to get into Arches.
The Interior dept has dropped entrance fees at National Parks and Monuments, encouraging people to come. I can’t bring myself to believe that he didn’t know how crowded the Colorado Plateau monuments are this time of year even without a national emergency. This administration is bent on destroying the NP system.
Update: Canyonlands and Arches are closing tomorrow (3/28) by order of Utah Gov, at the request of SE UT Health Department.
Not just retail… I work in IT… today’s conversation:
Person: I need this software, please approve
Me: You need to request it via the software download panel
Person: I need you to approve
Me: I can’t approve until you request the software on the download system
Person: It says licenses are available. Please approve.
Me: Click the little button that says “REQUEST SOFTWARE INSTALLATION” (bangs head against desk)
My classic example is when I got a new apartment years ago and was going to set up the electricity and so forth. I call the utility and say it’s apartment such and such a number E. (East side of the building, see.) My man’s befuddled. That account still seemed to be active. Am I sure I wasn’t on the other side of the building? I mean, what do you say to that? Dragon fire, right? I’M PRETTY SURE ABOUT WHAT SIDE OF THE FUCKING BUILDING I’M ON.
OK I didn’t say exactly that. I said “I assure you” that I knew what side I was moving in to. But somehow it’s possible to lace the second message with overtones of the first.
You just would not believe. If al quaida had recruited women I would have signed up.
I like you, but we must differ on this matter.