Minneapolis self destructs.

PATTERN OF SELF DESTRUCTION OF BIG CITIES CONTINUES

MINORITY RESIDENTS BIG LOSERS AGAIN

The violent response to the death of a black Minneapolis citizen is a sad repetition of a cycle of destruction that has plagued big cities of America since the 1960's. While protests against injustice or police abuse is an acceptable response that can lead to changes and reforms, violent looting, arson and destruction is the most counterproductive action that can be engaged in. Will this be the beginning of a decline in Minneapolis that may take decades to repair. A comparable situation in Detroit in 1967 hastened the decline of that city that has yet to recover.

The video of the black citizen being abused by a police officer is a sad testimony that police abuse is still a problem. It is likely that such incidents will always be a possibility and proper punishment for such actions are always needed. The minority population of Minneapolis had garnered the sympathy of a nation and reminded everyone that some police officers do abuse their authority. This incident was condemned by many police officers and police organizations. They understand that such incidents undermine their ability to protect their citizens and be effective in their jobs.

All that is now put aside by the distraction of looting, arson and senseless violence against those citizens and businesses who had no part of this affair. It is so counterproductive that you can bet that this area will likely decline in economic health for years to come. Some of those businesses will never return. Others will cross off this city as a possible location for future business. Some residents are likely already deciding were they will move to in the near future. 

The media loves these events, they love to stoke the flames and label the violence as a just outlet for the citizens rage. Often black leaders also love the spotlight to spew their racist propaganda that will just make it all worse. When the flames and rioting is over, they will all move on to the next sensational story and the good citizens of the area will live with a decline in their standard of living that may never be repaired.

It is a sad commentary on a pattern that has been going on for decades. Poor communities act in a manner that condemns their communities to increased poverty rather than upward prosperity. The few anarchists are allowed to set the direction of the lives for the whole community.

More interesting virus facts.

MOST VIRUS PANDEMICS HAVE 60 DAY PEAKS

VIRUS DEATHS HAVE BEEN DECLINING SINCE WW2

Looking at records of influenza caused mortality for the last 100 years show us some interesting  things that seem to be common with all virus outbreaks. One must understand that all these references to influenza are never specific to one strain of virus. In fact many of these deaths are classified as  acute respiratory illness. Most cases are never tested for or identified and many are not caused by influenza at all. 

The rate of death declined after WW2 because with the advent of antibiotics. While antibiotics have little effect on viruses most deaths are caused by secondary bacterial infections. This is still the case today. Often these cases are classified as Pneumonia. 

One other interesting statistic is that these virus outbreaks seem to peak in around 60 days from the time they reach a certain threshold of infection in the population. The pandemic of 1968-1967 peaked in December and January and killed an estimated 100,000. the pandemic of 1957-1958 peaked in October and November. While there are cases in every month of the year it seems it is a low steady number until in the winter it reaches a steep increase for around 60 days then steadily drops, much of this has to do with many in the population obtaining immunity. Since WW2 the peak has never started before October and never ended after April. While cases again continue after those 60 days they are in a steep downward curve. 

	Influenza Deaths per 100 000 Population
Season	Type	Mean	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
1941–1942	Nonpandemic	9.9	3.4	2.8	2.9	5.2	9.7	12.1	18.9	19.5	21.5a	12.7	7.0	3.4
1942–1943	Nonpandemic	10.8	2.7	2.5	3.7	6.9	9.1	14.8	20.9a	19.7	20.8	15.0	8.8	4.4
1943–1944	Nonpandemic	22.2	3.1	3.0	3.2	6.5	9.0	78.8	92.0a	29.4	19.4	11.9	6.6	3.5
1944–1945	Nonpandemic	7.4	2.5	2.5	2.8	5.3	7.2	11.7	14.2a	14.0	12.2	7.1	5.8	3.5
1945–1946	Nonpandemic	11.2	2.2	2.1	3.0	4.3	8.4	36.9a	34.2	19.3	11.6	5.6	4.1	2.6
1946–1947	Nonpandemic	6.9	1.3	1.4	2.0	3.2	4.0	6.7	8.7	7.0	24.0a	18.2	4.8	1.8
1952–1953	Nonpandemic	5.9	0.9	0.7	0.8	1.6	2.2	3.3	19.1	27.1a	9.4	3.5	1.7	0.8
1957–1958	Pandemic	5.4	0.6	0.8	1.7	13.1	18.8a	6.2	5.6	6.9	6.2	2.8	1.2	0.6
1959–1960	Nonpandemic	4.1	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.8	10.1	21.9a	9.4	1.9	0.9	0.4
1967–1968	Nonpandemic	2.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.6	3.0	17.1a	4.2	1.2	0.4	0.2	0.2
1968–1969	Pandemic	4.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.5	1.0	16.4	23.3a	4.8	2.6	0.9	0.4	0.2
1975–1976	Nonpandemic	3.6	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.8	12.8	22.1a	4.5	0.6	0.3

aDenotes peak monthly mortality during given season.

Influenza vaccines have been around since the 1980's. It is an annual ritual that many get this vaccine every year. New studies suggest that the accumulation of immunity  gathered over time may have more to do with the decline than the Flue vaccine. If you have had a similar strain of Flu in the past you will likely not be seriously affected in the future.

We have on average 30,000 deaths from respiratory illness every year in the United States. Often reaching 50,000. the 2017-18 season resulted in 48,000,000 infections, 959,000 hospitalizations and 80,000 deaths. 

Not to minimize the danger from this new virus, but we never have had a daily death toll on the news everyday for months. I personally believe I have had the influenza 4 or 5 times in my lifetime, but I had no memory of the 1967-68 pandemic or took little notice of the 2017-18  epidemic. 

We will eventually get all the facts and figures on this current pandemic, it seems it is very deadly on people who are old and have other problems, but we have been living with the existence of viruses that kill many every year. It is one of the risks of living.

Season may be more effective in controlling virus than Human action.

TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY ARE ENEMIES OF VIRUS

SUMMER SHOULD PRODUCE DECLINE IN CASES

There has been much research on the effects of humidity, temperature and sunlight on viruses. There is evidence that this applies to the present Corvid-19 virus. 

It has been demonstrated that this virus like other viruses are enabled by dry, cool conditions. It is a reality that in the northern hemisphere the conditions of higher humidity and temperature is commenced around June 1. While many of the authorities seem to be reluctant to explain this it has a lot to do with the reopening of the country now.  

These viruses thrive and live long in cool dry air. The life span of virus may be several days in optimum conditions, say 20% humidity and under 70 degrees and only minutes and hours in poor conditions. It seems 50% humidity shortens their life dramatically also drive them downward in the air. This is of course makes transmission in the summer outdoors pretty ineffective, also sunshine shortens the virus life to minutes at the most.

The conflict here is as temperature and humidity increase so does the use of air conditioning, which lowers humidity and air temperature to make the virus more effective. Also recirculated air helps the virus survive.

The other factor is that dry air decreases the bodies ability to ward off infection with  a virus due to the drying of the tiny cilia in our airways. 

So, it is likely we will see a decrease in cases in the coming weeks, but the virus is not gone. It will likely become more prevalent in the fall when conditions become more conducive to its transmittal. It may be a good idea to avoid gatherings in air conditioned environment and opt for family gatherings etc. outdoors. Keep guests and visitors out of your air conditioned home.

In the fall a humidifier and regularly circulating outdoor air by opening windows etc. would be a good practice. This is actually a good practice anyway.

We have lived with viruses forever and we have more knowledge than in the past, we cannot eliminate the risk but we can minimize its toll.

The country will not return to lock-down.

LIMITS OF QUARANTINE HAVE BEEN REACHED

WE WILL NOW LIVE WITH THE VIRUS NO MATTER WHAT

We can expect that most all states will be completely opening up in the next few weeks. While there may be a few isolated areas of quarantine, it will not be reapplied to whole states with this virus. The public has had enough, particularly the younger set. If some people, those in the vulnerable categories, want to stay home and continue their isolation that is how it should be. That is how it should have been since the beginning.

The focus should have always been on isolating the elderly and those with health problems. This was known since the first days of this event. While much focus was on enforcing lock-down and stay at home orders, not near enough protection was placed in the nursing homes where the most vulnerable live. As for the younger infecting their older relatives, they have always had the ability to do that, without shutting down the country.

Many employers did lay-off their older workers for their own protection, a policy that could have been encouraged and protected by the government. Younger and healthy people should have been allowed to work. A one size fits all response that has inflicted long lasting consequences on the economy and may have resulted in very few real benefits. We really don't know if many lives have really been saved. We can only go by the predictions of the health experts whose record has not been stellar in predicting outcomes.

So, now we have to hopefully learn form this experience and move on. Life must go on. We cannot be frozen in some limbo between living and surviving. We can't go on with blame game to governors, health experts and the Trump administration, consider the whole affair a learning experience. We should be able to to do better next time. We can continue to be cautious with our contact with other humans and just learn to live not only with this virus, but the annual flu, which has killed this many before, and any new virus that will likely erupt in our future. It is unlikely that a total lock-down will happen again. It is doubtful that it will be accepted by the public a second time.

It is time for the politicians and media to put the political bull shit aside and work to move the country forward in a safe and predictable way. We can protect the vulnerable, although through incompetence or intent that has not been the case up until now. We can also understand that we may have created many more dangerous vulnerabilities to ourselves and our country by the unthinking response to one of the age-old facts of life.

Latest Virus statistics

COMPARING EUROPE WITH U.S.

INSTEAD OF SHUT-DOWN, PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE IS THE BEST APPROACH

As of May 25, 2020 the United States has a reported death toll attributed to Corvid-19 of 99,300. This is a rate of 300 per million.population. This is the second best rate in the major developed world that has reliable reporting. Of this total over 33% nationwide  have occurred in nursing homes. 

Near 50% of deaths have occurred in New York and New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Nursing home deaths have been a result of the states transferring positive Corvid patients, who have been recovering, from the hospitals to nursing homes for rehab. This is a staggering number in many states.

Minnesota 81% of deaths occurred in nursing homes. 

New Hampshire 77.1%

Rhode Island 74.9%

Pennsylvania 68.6%

Delaware 67.8 %

Nebraska 66.3%

Washington 61.5%

Massachusetts 60.2%

Oregon  60.1 %

Maryland 60.1%

Many states have not yet calculated all these statistics. some would likely hope to keep it secret, but it will eventually all be investigated and be made public. It is likely that in the end it may be that the nursing home deaths in the U.S. may approach 50% of the total deaths.

The Total for the 5 largest European countries with a combined population of 324,000,000 is 135, 068. 

This includes Spain with 28,752 deaths at a rate of 615 per million.

The U.K. 36,793 a rate of 542 per million.

Italy 32,785 with a rate of 542 per million.

France 28,267 with a rate of 435 per million.

Germany with 8,371 with a rate of 100 per million.

Germany has set the standard for the best approach worldwide.

It appears within a few weeks most states will re-open, continued attention needs to be placed on nursing homes and other elderly and vulnerable citizens. 

While cases continue to rise, it is much a result of increased testing which is revealing the number of infected. The rate of cases and deaths is declining steadily. The U.S. has now tested over 14,000,000 people with reported positive cases of 1.6 million.

Statistics from worldometer and state reports.

Trump more Libertarian than Authoritarian.

CRISIS HAS REVEALED WHO THE REAL AUTHORITARIANS ARE

ABUSE OF POWER BY SOME GOVERNORS ON DISPLAY EVERYDAY

It has become evident that Americans are still willing to cooperate with government rules and regulations when they are convinced they are in the best interest of society. Also that they have a basis in fact and common sense.

Many have claimed that the best and most efficient government would be a benevolent dictator. A pure hearted leader who would always be fair and govern in the best interest of the people and protect individual rights. Human experience has proved this is an impossible dream. There have to be limits on government power or it will inevitably become a very slippery slope indeed.

The current virus crisis has revealed the limits of too much power placed in the hands of any individual, especially those with limited abilities to sort out facts and make reasoned decisions. This is why we end up with rules restricting travel, workers from working outside, allowing walking on the beach, but not laying on the beach or going into the water. Allowing the use of sail boats, but not motor boats. I could go on and on with rules that have no basis in the facts of the situation or common sense. This is what unlimited power looks like and if allowed to continue would become more oppressive and possibly even violent if there would be no checks on this power. Those with power often retaliate strongly if anyone challenges their power. So far we have seen threats with little actual retaliation.

It seems these authoritarians have one thing in common, they are mostly democratic governors, who if they had their way we would likely not be able to use fossil fuels, salt, sugar, red meat, own guns, be self-employed or unjustly have more money than you need for basic survival. This crisis is their dream, they can now dictate what they believe is the best way people should be allowed to exist.

We have heard the claim that Donald Trump is a potential authoritarian leader, who if not checked by congress would build concentration camps and restrict the rights of everyone, particularly minority races, women, LGBQ people, immigrants and democrats. This crisis has revealed just the opposite. 

The Democrats have criticized Trump for not setting rules for the whole nation, He has insisted on allowing the governors decide what is best for their state. This was his opportunity to become the most powerful authoritarian president since FDR, and he refused to go there. He has deferred to the people to decide how they should co-exist with this virus. He has helped all governors, democratic and republican deal with their problems even when it involved  hysterical demands of tens of thousands of ventilators and hospital beds. He has refused to impose arbitrary rules and limits on people while attempting to put out best practices for avoiding infection.

Can anyone imagine how a Democrat President in the same situation would have been pushed, by his supporters, to use this crisis to implement their dream of a socialist utopia in just a matter of months. If you doubt this would be the case, then you are not paying attention.

Economic recovery underway.

BIGGEST OBSTACLE IS NOW GOVERNORS AND BUREAUCRACY

STRONG DEMAND AND PLENTY OF BUYING POWER

It appears the economy is now moving in a positive direction. While the numbers will not yet verify that, it is clear that the environment is set to produce increasing activity for the foreseeable future.

One indication is the steady rise in crude oil prices. Yesterday close at $34 a barrel put the price near the break even price for many producers. This is a very positive development. You don't have to look any further than a trip to the grocery store to verify that vehicle traffic has increase dramatically. Most of these people are spending money on these trips and those store that are open are booming.

Many were surprised at increased earnings for Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, Target and any store that has been allowed to function. If you look at the parking lots of Dollar General, Tractor supply and those Hardware stores that are open you will see they are prospering.

The big exception has been the sit down restaurant business which is likely to end with many causalities. Those that are traditional drive thru businesses  like McDonald's, Burger King and those who already had strong take-out business seem to be doing well.

The construction business is ready to go, but now due to the closing of many government offices, permitting is holding back the commencement of many of these jobs. Government needs to expedite these permits to allow these people to work.

While some have seen their incomes damaged by these shut downs, many have found they have lots more disposable cash ready to be spent when the opportunities are made available. They have more money just by the fact that they have been eating at home, which many are saving as much as $200 to $400 a week. 

Real Estate seems to have positive demand, it just need for the government to be able to facilitate the transfers.

Truckers, who have been working, have had the windfall of decreased fuel prices which is lots more money in their pockets. This will be the same result for the construction and mining businesses.

What an opportunity to take a road trip, low gas prices, and the possibility of seeing the good old United States up close and personal.

So, while there are still serious problems for the Restaurant, and hospitality industry, much of the country has the opportunity to increase activity dramatically. Local and State government needs to now take a positive roll in getting things moving again.

Obama administrations obsession with Flynn phone calls.

WERE THEY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT KISLYAK MIGHT TELL FLYNN?

TIME TO DE-CLASSIFY THE RECORDING OF THESE CALLS

Michael Flynn was the first casualty of the Russian investigation. In the end of December 2016, incoming Director of National Intelligence Michael Flynn had several phone conversations with Russian ambassador  Sergey Kislyak. It seems that everyone in the Obama administration was very interested in what these conversations were about. 

The standard answer is that there were talks about the U.S. sanctions being placed on Russia by the outgoing Obama administration. It has been revealed that Flynn asked the ambassador to not retaliate and give the new administration time to set its own policy with Russia. There is much controversy about this claim that Flynn was undermining U.S. policy. It just does not add up. It was the last days of the Obama administration, you would think most people in the administration would be focusing on the next phase of their lives. Yet it has been revealed that everyone was concerned about these conversations.

General Flynn knew Kislyak for some time, as did everyone in Washington, it seems Kislyak made a point of being at every function he could in Washington and had conversations with Republicans and Democrats about many things. He was Russia's ambassador and was doing what he was supposed to be doing. Flynn was an open advocate for improving and normalizing relations with Russia so it should not have been unusual for them to be speaking.

It is time that these conversations be made public. They remain classified and it seems no one has seen or heard these conversations. The prosecution has made much about Flynn's not remembering what was actually said and it was the basis for lying to the FBI charges. The Mueller team only revealed those parts that supported their accusations.

One must wonder if the Obama administration was more worried about what Kislyak may tell Flynn, rather than the what Flynn may tell Kislyak. What could Kislyak tell him that the Obama administration feared so much to cause this amount of hysteria. It is similar to conversations with Ukraine about corruption between the Biden's and Ukraine oligarchs. Those were enough to prompt impeachment proceedings to stop any further revelations.

Without a doubt there has been a concerted effort by everyone in the Obama administration to intimidate anyone in the Trump administration from even talking to Russians. This includes the president himself who has been accused of being a Russian agent and having ties with Russia.

Lets start by declassifying these conversations and let the world see what has everyone so concerned. If it casts a bad light on Flynn, then their concern may be justified, I suspect they are more concerned about something else.

Will Impeachment be part of future campaign strategy?

THERE WERE SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO BEGIN IMPEACHMENT AGAINST OBAMA

WILL WE SEE MORE IN THE FUTURE?

As we watch the impeachment saga move on, it is becoming clear that this is nothing more than campaign strategy to wound the President in the 2020 election. Have we now opened the door to use this strategy every time the opposition holds the House of Representatives?

What makes it all the more obvious is that the Democrats have been threatening impeachment even before the inauguration of the President. It seems they have used this as a rallying cry for their base. They have promised and now they must deliver.

We do recall far more serious offenses under the Obama administration. Fast and Furious, were the ATF intentionally assisted in the sale of guns to the Mexican cartels, The obvious obstruction by their attorney general in refusing to obey subpoenas. The Republicans just let it go, probably considering the damage it would cause to the country. There was also the IRS targeting of conservative groups. There was the cover-up in the Benghazi affair. There were other more clear and serious opportunities that were passed up. Does anyone doubt that such opportunities will be dismissed in the future?

Another by-product of this fiasco is that future presidents will likely have a tendency to clean house of all suspect civil servants in the white house staff and the National Security council. Trump would have been much better off if he would have screened and moved all questionable people far from Washington D.C. Does anyone really think that the precedents set will go unnoticed by future Presidents?

As we watch this hasty half-assed impeachment process it has become clear it is more about making a statement than an actual serious attempt to remove a president. You can bet that in the future it will become a much more perfected process.

Originally published 12/3/2019.  As the Democrats again are looking to start impeachment proceedings.

How following protocols without thought has killed the elderly.

TRI-STATE GOVERNORS PUT CORNAVIRUS PATIENTS INTO NURSING HOMES

LACK OF COMMON SENSE KILLED MANY

The truth about the disastrous decision by the governors of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to put recovering Covid-19 patients into nursing homes is now coming to light. It is interesting that Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf just made an executive order to give immunity to any homes for liability in the death of their residents.

It was in late March that these governors were being asked by many nursing homes to stop the forcing of recovering virus patients from being placed in nursing homes. These governors all refused and forced them to take in patients who were over their critical care but were not able to take care of themselves. This practice is a protocol that has been around for some time, but never used for a contagious disease.

Years ago my elderly mother fell and broke her arm. She had a bad leg due to polio as a youth and used a walker. None of her family had a home layout without stairs and they told her she could not go home, that she had to go to a nursing home until she could fend for herself. This is a policy that was instituted to protect the elderly from being place into a dangerous situation. This is common policy until people are well enough to become self-sufficient.

With the anticipation of an overloaded hospital environment, these governors wanted to get as many open beds in the hospitals quickly. Many people who recover form this virus are in a very weak condition for weeks, so they began forcing them out of the hospital and into nursing homes. These nursing homes did not have the facilities or the staff to deal with a highly contagious disease. This led to thousands of vulnerable nursing home residents being subjected to deadly social contact.

This is what happens when people adhere to protocols and guidelines without thought. This was obviously a thoughtless decision that they were warned about by the people who managed and ran these facilities. It has resulted in the needless deaths of the very population that should have been the most protected. Rather than closing down the state they should have been focusing on protecting the vulnerable.

It is estimated that 33% of the deaths nationwide have occurred in nursing homes. This is around 30,000 residents.

As of today, out of Pennsylvania's 4418 deaths from this virus, 3000 occurred in nursing homes. We also see that we have shut down the whole state, while the focus should have been to protect those who are vulnerable to this disease.

Experts move goal from,"flatten the curve" to what?

MASKS ARE NO GOOD, TO MASKS ARE MANDATORY

I GUESS THEY FEEL WE ARE JUST TOO DUMB TO SEE THE CONTRADICTIONS

While I believe everyone sees the value in social distancing and good hygiene in dealing with this virus and any other communicable disease for that matter, are we being played as to the real goals of some?

We all started out with a 2 week shutdown to flatten the curve. This was intended to keep the hospitals from being overloaded with a huge influx of patients that would put everyone at risk of not being able to handle the medical care of anyone. Many expected this to be extended at least another 2 weeks. It is now 2 months and the end is not in sight. It is obvious that those in power at the state level will drag this out as long as politically possible.

We need to realize the virus, like most viruses, is not going to be eliminated. We need to live with these adversities.This is part of the human existence forever. We have many more tools available today than in the past and life needs to go on. Some believe we need to lock-down until their is an elimination of this virus through a vaccine, but we cannot be sure that such a vaccine is going to be available in the near future or ever.

Many expect the federal government to support society indefinitely, like socialism it will soon end in an economic disaster. People need to get back to work and go on living.

Social distancing and good hygiene is the best tool we have and this is what we may need to do for some time. We can do it. 

Many place their faith in these so called experts, who as I recall swore up and down that masks were unnecessary for the average person, only effective for healthcare workers. They also told us that they could actually be harmful to average citizens, but not to healthcare workers. This was intentional false advice in the fear that everyone would grab masks and not have enough for healthcare workers. 

Now scarves and any other covering is ok, and even mandatory. Does anyone doubt if they would have recommended coverings early on, like in the N.Y. subways, that lives could have been saved and hospital overcrowding could have been avoided. Did they think they had to be untruthful to protect us?

Everyone now knows what has to be done, give us good truthful advice and lets get going. Those at high risk need to be especially careful, not just with this virus, but with all communicable disease. There is still a strong sense of personal survival and the vast majority of people will do their best to protect themselves and their family.

Using Fauci to slow economic recovery.

SOME WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE SHUT-DOWN UNTIL THERE IS A VACCINE

STOP GOVERNMENT MANDATED SHUT-DOWN, LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE

Yesterday was the much anticipated Senate hearing on allowing the economy to move back to an open for business position. Many were waiting for the head of NIH to put a damper on any attempts to restart the economy. Anthony Fauci has been the hope of the stay-closed faction of politicians and media types to oppose the reopening of the economy. He has been put into a political position, even when he has tried to avoid taking political positions. Yesterday was yet another attempt to use his words to continue to shut down the economy. While he never said anything that would directly make that recommendation, he will be interpreted by the media and other shut-down supporters as saying just that.

The two big news quotes are that Fauci said that opening too soon, without having the necessary plan in place to address outbreaks could be dangerous. This is no revelation, everyone understands that a careful reopening with back-up plans to address likely flare-ups is needed.

The second issue being spun today is that Fauci said school should not open in the fall. He did not. He answered a question on whether there would be a vaccine or other treatments available by the fall, he stated that that was unlikely. This is enough for many to proclaim school should be closed until there is a vaccine available.

He also stated that the country will be in a better position in the fall to address a reemergence of the virus. This of course, will not be a statement to be talked about.

The question is, will the virus be controlled by a shut-down or by social distancing and proper sanitation. 

The reality is that the virus is going to be here for another year, and we cannot shut down the economy for another year without causing irreparable damage to the economy and to the well being of the citizens. All this continued quibbling and indecisiveness is not going to deal with the problem. 

The economy needs to be re-opened now. This is of course with the continued adherence to the guidelines to keep the virus from getting out of control.

Let the people decide, If you decide it is in your or your families interest to not go to school this year, OK stay home. Do what you think is best for you.

If you think you do not want to return to work, that is fine, stay home.

I am a senior citizen and I will continue to be cautious for the foreseeable future. I can make a sound judgement of what is in my best interest.

If anyone thinks we can shut down the country and continue to create money out of thin air to support everyone who wants to stay home, it will be the end of this country as we know it. Of course we can see that would be fine with many of those who would like to see just that.