Is the Virus Crunch Over With?

May fourth 1970 was the date of the Kent State shootings in Ohio and that was fifty years ago.  Yesterday May 3^rd was Valerie Shoffner’s birthday.  The significance of here is something my long-time blog readers know.   This is the year of the non campaign.   It’s like politics ceased to exist after March tenth.  It’s an eery thing.  We only know Joe Biden now for the sexual charges laid against him.  Sanders has disappeared completely.  The Democratic convention is August 17^th.   They moved it once from July; I hope they don’t cancel it entirely.  The LA school district says they are going to stick with their August 18^th starting date.  That’s early enough and I hope and pray the virus is over by then.  The Los Angeles county fair has still not been canceled as the OC fair was.   The Boston marathon is still scheduled for September.  I know there are other rock concerts that were rescheduled to a hopefully “safe” October.   But now they are saying that everything will operate at no more than half normal crowd density.  France and Italy are opening up their countries.  Everybody seems to think “It’s time”. 

May 4, 2020 is the grand reopening day of the nation with many states picking to lift the shackles of regulations.   Even though they tell us that death and hospitalization rates are continuing to rise in the agrigate.   I think they are giggling the figues because I thought we had topped off the week of April 13^th through 17^th and have been in  downtrend ever since.  Protestors still abound all over the country here in California and elsewhere.  Around this place Glen hasn’t uttered a peep about any liberation day when we can go outside the gates.  Of course there is a veritable soap opera of events the past few days.  But it would be nice if you could visit your own parents who are sick in the hospital and be spared the indignity of dying all alone.  It goes without question that the value of human to human contact is key to a healing.  Of course even though so many restaurants and barbershops and other businesses are open they in most cases are still practicing social distancing.  But when they are again flying commercial airlines the middle seat may well be a thing of the past.  Various city councils including Dana Point and Huntington Beach are challenging Governor Newson’s anti beach edict in court. 

May the Fourth Be With You -  Yesterday 'The Force" was not with me