137. Random facts and thoughts

The Floridian running for governor in Texas says his wife was vaccinated; but he’s not. It’s a matter of personal choice. He’s now choosing to go to the hospital and take the antibodies plus ivermectin and hydro-whatever—the other drug that has not been found effective. The press release said that his wife tested positive too, but said nothing about her going to the hospital. 

 

A healthy, 67-year-old member of Idaho Lt Governor’s task force on educational indoctrination—formed to root out leftist teaching in Idaho schools, died of Covid, according to Boise papers. He told people he was “vaccinated in Christ...”

 

A reporter in Germany says wearing masks on trains and indoors is automatic, as is taking them off outdoors. In America, the left wears masks indoors and out; the right not at all.  

 

Some on my side of the vaccination divide ask that the unvaccinated not be allowed into hospitals when there’s a shortage of rooms. Some say not at all; “put them in their own tent outside,” said one. 

 

My grandson asks whether anyone has kept statistics on the numbers of Republicans and Democrats who have contracted Covid. How many Republicans have died? 

 

In today’s New York Times, two prominent Republicans call for moderation and common sense, for a new collation of Centrist Democrats, Independents and moderate Republicans to make sure that those in control of the Republican party are defeated in the short run, and a stronger, moderate Republican party emerges in the future. They are backing Liz Cheney, who has a challenger endorsed by the former president. I wonder how Covid and Trump will work in her primary campaign.

 

Masks—what’s so hard about them? Last winter I didn’t get a cough or sneeze; friends and doctors remarked on the same. But Masks have become a symbol, divorced from their purposes or even the ease or unease of using them.

 

When I was young—before 21—we found it easier to buy beer at 7-11 stores than most others. Occasionally, the San Diego paper would say that a fine of $100 or $500 had been levied against a 7-11 store. We chuckled at that, computing the amount of beer sold to minors that it would take to pay the modest fine. When I walk into the local grocery or hardware store and see that all workers and most customers are maskless, it makes me wonder…

 

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