grind

"the bills increased mightily..."samuel pepys august 1665

while the increase could be described as growing "mightily" i would call it more arithmetic...

in the last two days the number of confirmed cases in the u s has grown by 60,600...

and the officially "recovered" by 7,966...so people are falling ill as opposed to recovering at a ratio of 7.6 : 1...not of necessity good news...

death rates in new york, chicago, and los angeles continue to rise...flattening perhaps, but not declining...

and in his narcissistic frenzy the president provides nothing in terms of leadership...and a clinic in self-absorption...

there was never a moment when listening to this would have been helpful..the time to "tune out" has come...and in the midst of this we are preordained to "re-open" by singularly economic pressures...freedom of movement has nothing to do with it...greed needs a fix and that is the driver here...protesters are usually tools of an ideology and ideology is the work of idealists..and idealists are crack-brained meddlers who have a vision of human perfection which could be attained if only we would all do things their way...belief in the possibility of perfection leads people to do some awful things to no real result...the upshot? do not drink bleach...it will kill you...i have no word from my alleged employer on when i might be asked to use ppe and practice "social distancing" in a confined space...the directives on how to achieve this should prove interesting, if not entertaining...we will look into those as they arrive...if they arrive..they may just call it a day...meanwhile the government, the media, and life all grind on...and the surreal quality has not diminished...