Haven't done a check-in for a while. Still here, everyone still fine. We're in stage 2 reopening here, which means people are starting to appear in restaurants and stores. People from L.A. Country, still in a stage 1 outbreak, are flooding across the border to eat here, shop here, and enjoy our beaches. Which is a bit of a quandry for me, because it means I don't feel comfortable picking up take-out from those restaurants now. So far as I can tell, the only thing that really changed is that people got tired of waiting.
My antivaxxer friend who caught the virus? (Or at least tested positive) She was taking care of her grandmother at the time, and being "really careful". The health officials disagreed, and ordered that the grandmother be put into a nursing home -- which is also super-dangerous, right? She didn't want to do that to her grandmother, so she didn't. A bunch of police showed up at her house -- or what they thought was her house. Turns out she had been evicted the month before, and they had already moved out. The police couldn't find them, they were on the run from the law, holed up in a rental in Ojai. But they both survived. A month later, she starts to complain to me about how the Social Security office cut off grandma's checks, and she didn't get a stimulus payment. Why? Turns out her relatives had reported her missing in the whole affair after the police couldn't locate her. "She's not missing! So dumb!" And she can't even report herself not missing with the social security offices closed.
The moral of the story has nothing to do with politics. All of these are rationalized choices by an individual. People can convince themselves of anything. Maybe, if you don't ignore reality, you can survive this thing. But you might just get through it on dumb luck, too.
My antivaxxer friend who caught the virus? (Or at least tested positive) She was taking care of her grandmother at the time, and being "really careful". The health officials disagreed, and ordered that the grandmother be put into a nursing home -- which is also super-dangerous, right? She didn't want to do that to her grandmother, so she didn't. A bunch of police showed up at her house -- or what they thought was her house. Turns out she had been evicted the month before, and they had already moved out. The police couldn't find them, they were on the run from the law, holed up in a rental in Ojai. But they both survived. A month later, she starts to complain to me about how the Social Security office cut off grandma's checks, and she didn't get a stimulus payment. Why? Turns out her relatives had reported her missing in the whole affair after the police couldn't locate her. "She's not missing! So dumb!" And she can't even report herself not missing with the social security offices closed.
The moral of the story has nothing to do with politics. All of these are rationalized choices by an individual. People can convince themselves of anything. Maybe, if you don't ignore reality, you can survive this thing. But you might just get through it on dumb luck, too.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto