I’m pretty sure my trip inside a Store last week won’t be happening again. Because people. New COVID-19 cases are through the roof. The governor refuses to order people to use masks. He urges people to, saying that we all need to look out for each other. Southern hospitality, and all that. Oh, wait. 90% of people here do not wear masks. They don’t practice social distancing. They’re all about all the restaurants being open and want to go right back to the way things were before March. So literally, the same day that he signed a new emergency declaration and told people to take care of each other, the governor lifted restrictions on the number of people allowed in retail stores.

Now, EVERYONE can go into a store. That seems like a great idea, when we’ve just shattered the state record of new daily cases, when the percentage of positive tests is dramatically up, and when our curve looks like this.

Info from the largest hospital in the area, color-coded for easy understanding. Green is good. Yellow is not great. Red is bad.

And it’s not just old people, despite what some would have you think.

The percentage of positive tests is up. Way up. BTW, this state never actually met any of the criteria the guidelines suggested for reopening. In fact, our governor said something to the effect of, “Those are just guidelines, they’re not laws.”

We’ll keep doing what we’re doing. Staying home a lot. Wearing masks. Washing our hands. Using hand sanitizer. Not eating in restaurants. Avoiding groups of people. The people who know us are doing the same. It’s everyone else that is the problem. I’d like to not be one of these.