Rant #2,656: Sleepwalk

I love to write, and I love to write in this blog format.
 
But I really don’t like to write about the coronavirus day in and day out.
 
Unfortunately, that is the top story in our world today, and while I don’t like to follow trends very much, I have to write a bit more about it today.
 
Since that new CDC guidance of last Thursday about mask wearing, people are asking the question, “Do I wear a mask or do I not wear a mask?”
 
Evidently at this moment, only your hairdresser knows for sure, because nobody else seems to know.
 
Some states have signed off on the new edict—I know that Hawaii has, so it is evidently time to book your vacations to the 50th state—but others have either said “not yet” or haven’t said anything.
 
In the former category is New Jersey, whose governor, Phil Murphy, believes it is fully safe to smoke pot but doesn’t think it is time to remove the masks just yet.
 
His counterpart in New York, Andrew Cuomo, who also believes he is “following the science” in allowing people to smoke pot after years of some of the most horrific anti-smoking campaigns ever launched, is in the latter category, and hasn’t said a blessed thing about the edict, not as of 6:30 a.m. this morning.
 
I guess it is taking him a few days to sleep on it.
 
I hope he had a very restful sleep while he ponders this “science.”
 
I can only go by what I saw myself over the weekend, and what I saw was status quo, at least in my neck of the woods.
 
Signs remained up about wearing masks in retail establishments, and one supermarket I went to even moved the sign to the outside of the store, to alert customers that you still had to mask up as you entered the store.
 
Going to two supermarkets, I found that people were doing just that, and I did not see one single, solitary person without a mask in the two stores.
 
And that is how it should be, since our governor is sleeping on the whole thing.
 
I don’t know if he took Sominex for his “safe and restful sleep, sleep, sleep.” but we haven’t heard a peep from him about this subject, nor about the fact that four of the women he supposedly sexually harassed have been issued subpoenas by the New York State Attorney General, so the investigation continues on whether he did anything to warrant the almost laughable “cries” from these gold diggers.
 
Thus, conecting the dots a bit, if Cuomo is sleeping on a decision about masks, it would behoove him to be sleeping alone.
 
Yes, this is a very strange world that we live in now, where a governor accused of sexual harassment holds our mask fate in his hands … his very large hands, according to one of the accusers.
 
I wonder if there is room for all he has to hold in his hands now?
 
And no, I still don’t believe any of these women who have accused him of being untoward to them, and I still believe that if they are going to get him on anything, it was the handling of the nursing homes during the early days of the pandemic that should be his undoing …
 
But what is sexier, sexual harassment chargers made by 30-something ladies or allegations of mishandling of those in nursing homes who are 70, 80, or 90 years of age or older?
 
I will give you one guess.
 
Yes, I wore my mask this weekend, as did my mother, my wife and my son. There is no reason to let up just yet, no matter what the governor is doing—or not doing—about the CDC’s latest decision, a decision that was probably a bit late in coming and is also probably politically motivated and has as much to do “about the science” as the New York Yankees losing yesterday to the Baltimore Orioles after posting a four-spot on the board in the first inning of yesterday’s game.
 
And … oh … that’s right … another Yankees official has tested positive for the coronavirus after being inoculated, making it nine team personnel who have gotten the virus after supposedly being vaccinated to protect them from getting it.
 
Do we “go with the science” on that too?
 
Do we say that their inoculations of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine worked, because they are all asymptomatic, although one wasn’t during his first few days of getting the virus?
 
Do we say that the inoculation obviously doesn’t work, because these nine men—one a healthy, 24-year-old professional athlete who had actually had the virus a few months prior—got the virus after getting a “vaccine,” supposedly to stop the virus from infecting them?
 
I don’t know what to think right now, but Governor Cuomo is sleeping on all of this, so I do hope he gets a safe and restful sleep ...
 
And then is able to get up off his soft bed and say something that makes the least bit of sense about all of this nonsense.