Reopening America

The governor is telling us to hunker down.   They are continuing to liberalize things on the south Atlantic coast like Georgia and the Carolinas opening up beauty salons and tatoo parlors.  They are opening up the beach in San Clemente and things were already opened up in Ventura.  You know about all of the south Atlantic beaches that have been opened up like in Jacksonville, Fla.  But the virus figures are running high this week because of a backlog in test results they are releasing.  In San Bernardino County they are opening up Mount Baldy for tourists before the snow all melts.  Yesterday was really the start of the hot weather and it remained warm up into the evening.  Tomorrow will be the warmest days with temperatures ranging from 95 to 98 over a wide-spread area. 

I have Randy Rhodes on right now.  Today we are all hot on ultraviolet C radiation and also inhaling or injecting bleach and songs about ingesting Comet.  Now the belief among the far right that if you take disinfectant cleaners internally this will protect you from the virus.  Half the country is going to be open before the April 30^th date even rolls around.  We in California will appear really “retarded” on our wanting to resume normal economic activity.  They should run tests to see is sunlight really does weaken or kill the virus and if it does, to tell people to get out in the fresh air and sunshine.  

Another four million people put in claims for unemployment on Thursday bringing the total to 26 million dollars.  There is a suggestion that state governments be allowed to declare bankruptsy.  Do you know what that would do to the municipal bond markets?   There would be economic chaos and government as we know it would collapse.  Mitch Mc Connel says blue states are the takers because they have more of the Corona virus than do the red states.  But it’s the red states like Kentucky that get back more from the federal government than they put in with taxes.  This is because tax rates in red states are low and in blue states they are high.  This makes the blue states much more self sufficient.   And there is politics involved too.  Trump and Mc Connel want to propagate the lie that low taxes equals wealth.

The liberal media is hyping us with all this talk about how blue the sky is now and how the rivers in Venice run clear now and you can see all of this fish swimming and how happy all of the animals are in Yellowstone national park now that there are no humans.   We are told the world has shut down but when I was out on Tuesday this wasn't at all the case.  (Tuesday April 21st)  I’m fuzzy what I did after this.  I think I checked in with the front room again.  Oh.  April was there with Joselyn and she said she would definitely take me to the bank today and it would be after she took James and Ken Brown.  I went down at 11:30 for lunch.  We had Swedish meat balls with gravy and a small amount of mash potatoes and vegetables.  I don’t remember the dessert.  Joe was playing JACK radio but first I had Gary and Shannon on.  I was anxious not to miss April.  She didn’t even take James and Ken to the bank till one thirty and Chris told me that.  I was beginning to have anxieties about missing the whole thing.  At two I went down and they were getting ready to start up a Bible Study with Brother Bart but they were having problems with the hook-up.  When they got it working the sound was loud and tinny.  The D J I fell 630 points today.  Today’s Bible study topic was David and Bathsheba but I left after the opening hymn.  I went outside and Chris told me that April had just pulled through the gate.  I saw her and ambled down that way greeting them as James was getting out of the van.  I told April I was ready to go to the bank.  We left and I was glad to get out of the gates.  I noticed the streets weren’t nearly as deserted as advertised on TV.  Some parking lots were full north of La Palma.  We parked right by the machine and I went there with my card.  But I had all sorts of troubles with my card and the forty dollars never came out.  I asked the guy at the next booth if he could resolve the problem but he just said the machine didn’t give me cash.  I went to his machine and tried that but my finger brushed by the 400 key and it showed up on the receipt but I got a message saying they were having technical difficulties.  I went into the bank and soon got a teller who was ready for me.  She was nice but I was disorganized.  She gave me the forty dollars I asked for and gave me a statement with my balance.  It was $101.00 roughly.  Then we made our way home via Beach the same way Terry goes and she dropped me off.

Joe was playing the jazz station and I remarked how the station comes in really clear with Joe’s radio and it doesn’t with mine.  I went to dinner at four thirty.  We had a chef’s salad with lots of ham and cheese and hard boiled eggs and olives.  There were a few tomatoes and short on dressing.  We had that tropical fruit mix for dessert.  Right now Mayor Garsetti is starting his address.   I must say the media gives you a certain impression that it not accurate.  People are out and about.   The dark streak is not noticeable outside of this file except maybe on opening just a trace.