"Stay prepped, stay aware, but most of all, stay healthy. No matter how dark the cloud is which approaches, there will be light on the other side. And maybe even, a rainbow."
Get ready for this. My wife and I are about to throw some sunshine towards our Governor. And it has to do with his 2 pm announcement yesterday. Forget just for a minute what the subject line was. I know some are pleased, and others are hopping mad. About halfway through his announcement, my wife turned to me and said, "Could you imagine if we still had Mark Dayton? And he was trying to mumble his way through the explanation?" No, I really could not imagine Mark Dayton leading the state right now.
Love it or hate it, the "shut down" starts at COB on Friday. Do I think we will have the SiP order (Shelter in Place) until April 10th? Maybe. It was a guess by the Governor. Just like the President saying we will be up and running by Easter. It all depends on the curve, baby! I really don't like thinking about the "curve" as just something on a graph. Rather, I think of it as a tsunami. Where all of a sudden, up to 2.4 million people in Minnesota could become infected with this disease.
Where does that leave the elderly shut ins in the state? Depends on the weather. If the weather is anywhere from "just okay" to marvelous, being sequestered might be tolerable. If the weather is cold, rainy, or snowy - being stuck at home for two weeks or more, could start to suck real fast. But, we will all do what we need to do. Our job is to stay at home. Not the toughest assignment I have ever had.
The thing I remain focused on the most right now, is that our country (unlike with Swine, SARS, and MERS) learns something. So, the next time we get visited by an unannounced virus, our state leaders are not running around with their hair on fire. Yes, I am talking about you New York. You have really set the example on how to be prepared for a pandemic - a bad example.
One more thing of note. This country, in a partial shut down mode, needs to learn how to stay somewhat productive when a good portion of the work force in mobile. The President is right - we can't just shut everything down for 2 months or so, and expect at the end of that time, things are back to normal. They won't be. And as strong as our economy is, we can still crash it. Then we will have real problems.
That is it this morning from the Bird's Bunker. Stay prepped, stay aware, but most of all, stay healthy. No matter how dark the cloud is which approaches, there will be light on the other side. And maybe even, a rainbow.
And perhaps you ought to add "don't panic!" There is no reason for it. This thing appears, in the end, to be no less contagious and no less deadly (right now far LESS) than the seasonal flu for which we HAVE vaccines. The only thing I don't want to see is government telling us when we can or cannot go back to work.
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