OK. Glad you're ok with it. MORE glad you're not sick and ok. Lots of hot spots.
I am not against hunkering down. I am doing it myself. I won't come out from under the bed for weeks. But I'm doing it because I choose to. Safety never, ever, trumps Freedom. I understand what you are saying, that these radical actions work to keep you safe.........for a while. I just can't swallow the silliness of arresting folks for drive up church services while allowing drive up liquor stores, or congregating like sheep in a grocery store every day.
To me, this is like a lot of government interventions and laws. The concept of "We're doing this to keep you safe" sounds good, and everyone wants to be safe. But then they make so many exceptions and such that it's meaningless. I read that of the working class (not us retirees), 54% of workers have been deemed "essential". So what good is a quarantine, a lockdown, if over half are out and about as usual.
I just got back from town. Had to get a prescription from CVS. Had to get mail (they bring it to the car, I use a UPS store). Saturday......traffic is about 1/2 to 2/3 normal. Restaurant parking lots are pretty empty. Lowe's, Walmart, hard to find a place to park. Launching ramps at lakes here are so full there's no parking places left.
We have a total of 1,226 cases of Positive since this started.........and 24 deaths. That's it. Yet we are NOT in lockdown and as I just said, "we" are moving about all over the place, it seems. Again, I'M not, but most are.
I understand the concept. I get it. I just don't think one state, or one area, or one city, or anything that confined, can make silly rules and laws that are going to ultimately work. Maybe for a month?? Hope so. But man...........Freedoms are being whittled away daily. Scares me.
Never do expect folks to agree with me. But that's my take. Truly, I do NOT know the answer, and I am NOT advocating taking the lid off 100%. But maybe do what Sweden did? I don't know. I'm not trying to be controversial or argumentative. It's just that I'm as scared to lose my freedoms as I am my life.
Granddaughter graduating from CO State next month. Her little brother, turned 18 yesterday, is graduating from high school in CO Springs. Canceled of course. She is headed to Penn State for a 5 year Ph.D. program in August. Hope it works out. I still have reservations in Shipshewana for August. Hope that works out. Praying all this crap goes away.
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