Monday blahs and everyday idiots

Yup, it's Monday.  Somewhere somebody's happy.

That is, of course, a lie.

But let's act like it isn't and someone thinks Monday is just fine.  Rah rah. 

But it's not.

Weekends are hard to differentiate. 

And this week I have almost nothing on my schedule.  Not even a single Zoom meeting, after a bevy of them last week.  (I'm working on my vocabulary)

Speaking of bevy (you knew I'd find a way to use it again), there have been a bevy of idiots roaming state capitols recently. 

Why do they wave Confederate flags?  They know they lost, right?  And they know they are protesting against state rights (which was kind of a big deal to the Confederacy) by protesting at the capitol, right?  That it is governors who have been doing the work on the pandemic while Washington is fighting them for test that will actually allow us to go back to normal?

Why do they bring their guns?  Is it because some states have closed gun stores as non-essential?  Unless you're using it to get your meat every day (and if you are I bet you already have at least one gun to do that), it's NOT essential.  And, just in case you don't understand, it won't work on the virus.

Oh, that's right, the whole Covid-19 thing is just another flu. 

Uh huh.   Covid has killed 40,000 plus Americans already.  That's 10 years of flu.  The thing these people don't understand is when we talk about flu-related deaths is that we report everybody who had the flu and anything killed them.  For covid, we are only counting cases that we KNOW were the virus (had to be tested positive).  If you never got tested and died suddenly and you had COPE or some other condition that might have killed you anyway, you aren't one of the 40,000.

And Dr. Phil saying we kill more people with cars each year: yes, and we have laws to try to reduce that every year, too.  Seat belts, air bags, speed limits.  If everyone went around going as fast as they wanted with no seat belts, bumpers, or airbags, how many people would we kill.  And let's not forget little kids and their car seats.  We bear the risk and try to be careful and not kill people.

Going out without a mask and getting inside the 6' zone of people, not washing your hands, etc, is like driving at 100 in a car without a seatbelt, heck, maybe not even a windshield (we mandate those too) and hoping you will be all right if someone pulls out in front of you.

So, that's today's rant.  I feel only a little better.  Maybe we'll have more fun tomorrow.   It IS Monday! 😡