Westchester is opening up but despite what those people who think only of themselves believe, masks and social distancing are still important. It's not about fear, it's about concern for your fellow humans who might catch the disease from you.
So don't be an asshole, and don't spread the disease. Wear a mask when you have to be closer than six feet from people you don't live with. We aren't out of the woods and the father or grandmother or great aunt that becomes critically ill could be yours. Or it could be your best friend!
Here's something I read today in the Wall Street Journal:
Younger people are getting sick with Covid-19. States that had brief coronavirus lockdowns are struggling to encourage social distancing and mask-wearing. Many people appear to have embraced their usual summer rituals. Health officials are sounding alarms about a surge in cases racing not through nursing homes, but bars and house parties. Hospitals are filling with medically-vulnerable elderly—but also 20-somethings and patients in their 30s and 40s.
I got kicked out of a cemetery yesterday. I wasn't doing anything bad but as the security person told me, "the gates close at 4PM." I imagine I could've parked on the main road and walked around but since I had to move my car, I figured I might as well head over to the damn Kensico Plaza and continue my walk there. It was simply too beautiful and afternoon to just head home.
Kensico Cemetery is a very lovely place, park-like in it's landscaping, rolling hills, hidden lake. There are lots of family plots with interesting and sometimes garish monuments, above ground tombs with lovely stained glass facing west, and plenty of famous people in permanent residence.
sTrump'et's cat's paw, the vice president, believes we are in a good place right now, ready this time if the number of cases keeps growing. But in places in Texas, hospitals are at capacity, in Washington the emergency has returned, Texas has ordered bars to close and Florida is forbidding bars from selling alcoholic beverages. I guess that will keep the crowds away. These folks who've done their best to politicize a public health crisis, are stunned by the failure of their plans.
And the sTrump'et administration pontificates and congratulates itself for a job well done while people are struggling for health care. Incredibly, they are asking the Supreme Court to decide that the Affordable Care Act is void. This without a hint of what they would replace it with. Criminal? Even if there is nobody to arrest these felons, the Republican party as sunk to a new low. Despicable is a compliment. Disgusting is better.
Tonight a handful of photographs I edited without too much concern for verisimilitude.
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