"Virus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount." (via @AP)https://t.co/ChrTrbNEFp— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) August 5, 2020
Somebody just keeps pouring kerosene....
"Virus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount." (via @AP)https://t.co/ChrTrbNEFp— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) August 5, 2020
I reached a point of real depression around all this. Yesterday a coworker and I needed lunch and we walked to a take out place on the main street in Manchester, NH. The sidewalks were moderately populated and so we were wearing our masks. The driver of a car going by leaned out his window and screamed at us to take off our masks. My coworker is from Texas and a big guy, he was ready to rumble. As a more reserved Yankee I would have been satisfied with telling the driver to engage in an anatomically impossible sex act. The driver sped off before either could occur. Then today on a work call, a legal colleague that I have only met once or twice because of remote working (I had been warned by someone else that he is very conservative and has a shrine to Trump in his office) started going on about the uselessness of masks, called Fauci a liar several times and more. I found I was suddenly late for another call when he launched into an explanation that COVID-19 was created by Chinese scientists.
ReplyDeleteAnd we have 5 days to decide if our two younger children have hybrid or solely remote learning.
A large part of America has totally abandoned its senses. I am watching formerly sensible moderate conservatives spirally off into conspiracy theories. Watching other states packing schools with kids and no masks is criminal, it will come with a death toll along with an unknown amount of long term illness. We have truly decided things and ideas are more important than people.
Through all of this I just have not felt this low about where we are and where we are heading as a country.