hot weather

"time inured then to it all and they ventured everywhere after without hesitation." journal of the plague year

a dearth of posts has not meant a dearth of new cases of the plague...the seem on the rise in fact...per the state health department there have been 367 new cases in this county in the past five days... and 4413 in the state...johns hopkins has a five day total of 351041 new cases nationally and yesterday's numbers put the ratio of new cases to reported recoveries at 3.83:1...hot weather would seem to have little effect on this virus and we already know it can spread in cold...so? the governor of the state has issued a five page executive order mandating face masks and threatening to close the state again...as if big greed wouldn't howl at that thought...oh it has the requisite exception that open loopholes and enforcement is in the hands of local health departments so there won't be any...we don't want to step on the voters' toes...or those of the corporate donors either...so? best bet this continues to spread because humans are pretty much informed by their habits and change is not easy...i have to wear a mask at work...wearing it in public is no big step...but i will be counting the maskless just to see what sort of compliance there is...some businesses are hard assed about it and have been all along ( menard's for instance )...others are not so much so...certainly the retail giant i work for has mandated that we prole not confront the maskless ( a corporate directive )...that is management's problem...i foresee laxity all round.