I've now received it as well. I frankly hate to see this as a Red/Blue issue, but our President is pushing State's to do what his science advisors are telling him not to do, and many Red State's are following his lead.
I cannot blame people for wanting to be productive again, but if it's going to kill thousands more, I believe the Govt. would be better to support the people and businesses until they can safely reopen. The idea of saying we're winning the battle so go out and live is just what's needed to have it take off again.
Here in California they're opening up slowly, I believe it's working. We see friend in Zoom conferences a few times a week, but I really don't know that we'll truly have a party where 100 or more would attend for the remainder of this year if there is no vaccine that would make such a party safe. People are to wear masks everywhere, of course the President won't do it, and set a good example, but had it been done from the beginning, I suspect that perhaps tens of thousands fewer would be dead. It's not that masks are germ proof, but they greatly restrict the distance germs travel, and they do filter out some of them. The point is, I remember masks being used in Japan 40 years ago, now when it's impossible to tell if you have the disease, all need to wear them until the numbers come way down. It's clear that in the Red States few do it, whereas in the Blue States many more do it. I wish it were otherwise, I don't like wearing a mask, had to do it for months after stem cells, but everyone is better protected with it, than without. Most of the elderly people, like myself, do wear them, some younger people don't, yet the one person known to pass away was a friend of my daughter, so youth doesn't assure a cure if you get it. Too many young are dying, it's foolish to risk your life to party with friends for a few days, but some still do it. Crowds could be seen in bars in State's where they've been opened. I look forward to when restaurants and bars are opened here, but I know people will be spaced out, and they'll be masked when not eating or drinking. It's really a small sacrifice until the pandemic is gone.
Gary
