open for business...sorta

all but three counties in my state ( and the one i live in is one of the three ) have come off the "stay at home order" as of 11:59 p.m. last friday and the first tentative steps towards "normal" are due tomorrow because this whole covid thing is winding down, right?

admittedly this is not new york...however the death toll there has incresed from yesterday to today...and if is is "flattening out" i am reasonably sure the bereaved find that heartening...

same holds true for los angeles even if to a lesser degree...

and in a metropolis closer to home...

while across the country as a whole people are falling ill at a rate 2.54 times faster than they are "recovered"...in my state in the last week the death toll has ranged from 28 to 63 daily and in my "hot spot" county from 1 to 9 while new cases statewide average around 50 a day...

per the governor's executive order 20-26 retailer "re-opening" is a limited affair...

and they have to "protect" their employees...

and an understaffed and overworked "enforcement response team" is going to ensure that the rules are adhered to by corporate governance when they get around to it...not that corporate governance isn't going to do what it pleases as soon as any inspectors leave the premises...this is play acting and making a pretense of controlling sociopathic corporate structures...corporate governance is firmly in control here...civil government except as a control mechanism to keep the rabble in line is a fiction...

and in all this us old folk are supposed to still say at home at least until mid month and if there is a spike in new cases and icu admissions we all get to go home again until further notice..okay...this is the new "normal" and no one knows what will happen...too many variables for feeble human cognition...and i suppose you have to start somewhere...however starting when people are still sickening more quickly than the are recovering seems counter-intuitive if you are trying to control the spread and i am inclined to think we will all be going home again...except for those of us who do not leave...i have not come to a decision about that as yet...again the variables need consideration...certainly we are all on our own in this...distance comes in many forms.