Day 19: California Under Martial Law Lite (Bark At The Moon)

I listened to part of Trump's press conference Sunday. It's apparent that the role of leader of the free world doesn't suit him well. He doesn't like questions that call his abilities into account, properly or not. His explanations are lacking to anyone with anything higher than a sixth grade education, and having him be our leader throughout this mess is really quite terrifying. He is in over his head. He doesn't have the intellectual capacity to deal with Covid-19. That makes him dangerous.

Trust me. I'm a doctor.

I've heard, though have yet to see, that our local WinCo is now requiring people to wear masks to enter the store. When I inquired to the person who told me this as to what type of masks (N95? bandana?) she did not know. As our positive cases of Covid-19 get one away from 50 and three people are hospitalized here in Humboldt with it, WinCo seems like it is instituting a smart policy.

If you've been following the numbers here in Humboldt, you'll notice a fairly consistent clamor on social media about where these cases are located. People want to know towns, though that information is fairly useless, and not a single one of those curious souls have been able to properly explain why they need that info. If you are doing everything you can to prevent catching or spreading coronavirus, then knowing the location of the county outbreaks changes nothing . . . unless you decide that since there aren't any cases . . . yet . . . in a certain location and you are there that you can somehow be less careful in your routine. The assumption is, and your actions should agree with this, that it is everywhere. It doesn't matter if Fortuna has two cases and Eureka has 33. In fact, that would only make sense. It seems these people want to feel that they either have some kind of control over the matter or they take a false sense of security from knowing useless information. The only people who need to know the exact locations are health professionals and that's in order to see patterns that could be used to determine contagions. For the rest of us, it's useless, but still people chatter on.

Today we will probably hit the magic 50. I actually predict we may hit 53. I hope I'm wrong, and that it doesn't happen, but it seems inevitable. At least we aren't NYC.