thomas leverett weblog: in it for the long haul

Friday, July 03, 2020

in it for the long haul

It seems obvious to me, that at the very least Trump will be around until January, and the covid will ravage us for six months. There is no plan. There is not enough testing or contact tracing; we are running out of hospital beds in places like Arizona and Texas. I could be hopeful and say maybe it will all go away, but it won't. On the contrary, it will reach all those places where it hasn't reached, and it will ravage all it can ravage, and pretty soon everyone will be cxposed. It's just a matter of time.

In our little mountain zipcode, we still have zero. We find this astounding. And one thing that we've found is that people from the valley love it up here, and lots of them have motor homes. They can't go to Dallas or Disney World, so they're all coming up here. Lots of people lined up to take what little space there is in RV parks, and just park. Actually I would say that even the RV's aren't social distancing, they are less than six feet apart.

But take hope - in the same way the George Floyd demonstrations did not cause too much of a spike, this may not either, and the reason is that everyone is outside in the fresh summer air. Masks, yes, a few people wear masks, actually more and more, but I don't really think that makes much of a difference. Yes, they try to respect the store owners and wear them even when it's inconvenient. But what they really like is that they can travel and use their own bathroom. The safe are keeping their save zones isolated. And using lots of hand-san.

We are very very nervous about our teenagers. Sometimes they spend the night at friends' or have friends over. Football season is coming up; one wants to play. They practice outside, but does that help? When I was in high school kids that tacked other kids would spit on them. It was the way they played the game.

It's kind of like watching the news: it's contentious, it turns your stomach, and it makes you want to take care of business fast, before your luck runs out.