Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 04, 2020

Hate to break it to you, after we open too early and without the proper conditions in place, it’s going to be six months

I’m okay with this.

Bonespurs and company dropped the ball from the start. Now is not the time to strike out and make it game over for thousands more.

All the groundhogs disagree about Winter. I can just imagine how they’d do at guessing this.

The Shadow knows.

Good thing Bill Murray didn’t live this day over and over again.

can’t we make it eight…?

Six weeks, I think, is impossibly optimistic. Some things we may never do again.

Sorry about that – we’re about to reduce those restrictions; along with New Zealand, of course.

Too close to the Groundhog, buddy.

TheCanary has an article about a care home in Lyon, France:

As coronavirus cut a deadly path through care homes across the country, Valerie Martin vowed that the story would be different in the home she runs.

To keep Covid-19 at bay and stop it from infecting and killing the vulnerable older adults in her care, Martin and her staff locked themselves in with the 106 residents.

For 47 days and nights, staff and residents of the Vilanova care home on the outskirts of the east-central city of Lyon waited out the coronavirus storm together, while the illness killed more than 9,000 people in other homes in France.

On Monday, Martin and 12 other colleagues who stayed in the home for the full duration were planning to end their quarantine.

They were coming out with an uplifting victory: coronavirus tests conducted on the residents and staff all came back negative.

What a lovely victory, if the worst is indeed over. One of the photos shows residents with handmade signs reading “Merci pour tout” —“thanks for everything”

Forget about taking any precautions.

Listen to Hannity. He said that unless you are ill or elderly chances are 99% you won’t die.

At age 71 I am glad to hear that the GOP has written me off for dead.

So let’s do the math: I will spell it out for you Trump people so you can follow along. If you want you can call this “fake arithmetic.”

If 99% of the people won’t die 1% WILL die (excluding those ill and elderly who are already dead).

The population of the United States is approximately 328 million people. 1% of that (hang in here Trumpies this is all the way up to 4th grade mathematics) is 3.28 MILLION people.

Trump is never precise when he speaks, he uses words like “soon,” “big” and “tremendous” instead of actual numbers while playing “air accordian.”

However he does like to make comparisons when the numbers are on his side. Back in the days when he told us that this thing would be over in a week, the body count was in his favor when compared to Obama’s epidemic. Now that our dead and dying exceeds Obama’s record you don’t hear so much about the “terrible” job Obama did.

Trump and the GOP believe in “two wrongs make a right” reasoning. The media hates Trump therefore whatever Trump says must be true. One can always find someone worse than Trump in some area to compare him to so he looks good.

In this case 3 million deaths is only half as many deaths due to the Holocaust. Bythat measure, Trump is doing a “tremendous” job.

Remember, the Republican Party is pro-LIFE

Better not let any of Hair Furor’s gun-toting NAZI-loving protesters see you, groundhog, or you will get blasted into the next county since they HAVE to show off their “Manhood” SOMEHOW!!!!

I’m hoping the Governors aren’t looking a Ground Hogs and Ouija boards for their social distancing plans. However, I’m thinking that would be about as effective as the advice from the WHO and pretty much all the health officials. I mean really, if we all stay “social distanced” forever we won’t catch most infectious diseases. I’m not sure that’s a win though.

A top hat does not go with golf shorts.

Has anyone else noticed how Trump has positioned himself so that if the early re-openings work out he can claim the credit, if not he can blame the governors?

Trump is keeping the country closed by not testing everyone.

Testing is the only way, otherwise you are just spreading the disease.

Ah, the scape-goating/blaming and quick to judgment rears its ugly head. For me, it is time to turn off the political musings around the issue and listen to the medical/research experts as we figure out how to adjust our lives and economy. This has been painful for all, one way or another, and with some more deeply impacted than others.

A little light-hearted humor can help us get through this. If we can’t laugh at ourselves a little as we struggle through this novel coronavirus, then where does that leave us?

You fill the tub, I’ll grab the toaster…

With this one arises the sudden urge to play Wac-o-mole.

Kent State, 50 years ago, never forget

Six more weeks in a daze. Grocery biz is kickin’ my….. Well you know. Stay well and don’t shop more than once a week.

Some people just do not get gloomy humor. You should be encouraged that some do. By the way nice looking groundhog!

Lifting all the pandemic restriction too soon is the American way of saying: “Hold my beer and watch this!”

While we are all anxious to get ‘back to normal’, and we are all worried about our jobs, maybe we should be taking this time to think about those jobs - In the US (and I believe throughout most of the world), we have been struggling for years with certain kinds of jobs ‘going away’ (regardless of the reason - shifting overseas, automation, disappearing industry) and when we get back to ‘normal’ that situation won’t have changed — but it will probably be worse, especially since our first phase is to return with just half the workers at a time. What we all should be doing with this time is figuring out what we can do to get a better job or one that is less likely to disappear in the near future. Many schools (colleges and trade schools) are anxious to have students enroll (they don’t want their jobs to disappear either) so this may be good a time to learn something new.

I haven’t worn anything but PJ’S since this started.

Social distancing seems to be helping so far (the new mantra for our time). Will it prove to be the best way to reduce the number of deaths until a vaccine is formulated and distributed? So far there is some proof it can help.

I can understand the growing, and rapidly becoming frantic need for people to find money for food and shelter. I can understand why they want to go back to work to restart their income. I can understand their complaints about work and school closures.

The people I can’t understand are those who protest closure and isolation so they can party on the beaches and gather in large masses for other activities. Are they so wealthy, they don’t need to work? Are they so healthy nothing will affect them? Have they no consideration for family and friends they will expose to the virus? If they get hit with CV-19, will they cure themselves? Or will they still whine, It’s just not fair. Why me?

Good one Wiley. A little black humor doesn’t hurt.

STILL no testing on a national scale. NO plans to do so. And, of course no intention of ever collecting and analyzing of data.

“I take no responsibility for any of it!”

Apparently, California is planning to stay on permanent lockdown. Just ask King Gavin. #CloseCA4Ever

People were social distancing themselves from me even before the virus.

A lot of moronic comments here can’t get it that using phrases can be racist and have nothing to do with having to be PC. It’s just plain wrong. It’s just about not being an a-hole but that’s too vague for them because their heads are so far up that a-hole. If ya have to say “But I’m not a racist” even only to yourself then you very, very probably are, so just don’t. It ain’t about liberals, “snowflakes”, or any of your other crap, it’s about being a human being and those comments mean you failed that simple test big time. Losers.

The W wave spike will be forthcoming and continuing until we find a vaccine. It is what it is. We all know now that to some in the USA led by the GOP, NO lives matter.

Must be up in Illinois or Michigan. Went to a restaurant today in Florida.

Am I up too early or is it still Groundhog Day?

I wish!