#103 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday July 29)
Good morning,
Was anyone else It’s been oddly transfixed over synchronized diving? While diving is a beautiful, precise, sport, I’m not exactly sure how doing it in concert with a near-mirror image is a sport. Odd…
It’s been over 100 days since my arbitrary determination that we had emerged from our bunkers, after 400 days inside, masked and distanced.
What have the last 100 days taught us?
The five day work week for most office workers is a thing of the past. Remote work is here to stay.
Eating outdoors is more fun, with fresh air and a real street life.
It only took 100 days to forget the pain, death, fear, and isolation of the pandemic. Now people want to party indoors and take undue risks. And Fox News is busy saying it wasn’t so bad, while the Delta variant runs rampant. And those rugged individualists and anti-vaxxers are going to ensure that we don’t reach herd immunity. It is so crazy that the anti-vaxx movement and the rugged individualists have placed us all at great risk and insured that the virus will remain with us for a very long time, perhaps forever. We are all in physical danger and our economy is at risk, all because of a crazy conspiracy theory regarding the miracle of vaccines.
What was an insurrection on January 6th has been recharacterized (notwithstanding videos of violence and stories of the desire to take hostages and/or kill leaders) as not much more than a bunch of tourists having a fun time at the Capitol. Meanwhile there are those that—in the absence of any supporting evidence—maintain that Mr. Trump’s defeat was a “steal.” Does anyone with knowledge and data share this silly (and dangerous) view? In the words of Fareed Zakaria, “the Republican party has pandered to its crazies for too long…”
We are in for some rough days—on the pandemic front, the political front, and the climate change front. Strap in.
That’s it on day 503,
Glenn
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