Getting back on the horse

"What then are the huddled masses saying on this Monday morning? 'Hi ho, hi ho - it's off to work we go.' It is time once again to be an example for the rest of the world. Sure, we got knocked off the horse. But now we are getting right back on. Fearful? No. Cautious? Always. We will make it work. We always do."   

One of my social media friends, a person who is well known in Minnesota, is a Never Trumper. Hates the President with a passion. He is trying hard to pin some of the blame for this virus on the President. I have pushed back very hard on that issue. I keep reminding him it was the Chinese who did this. Here - let me spell that out - C-H-I-N-E-S-E. The only shade I will throw on the President, is he, like the rest of the country, got caught a bit flat footed by how contagious this virus is. We have never seen anything quite like this before. 

This is the big week. Some states are declaring themselves willing and ready to go back to work. Even the repressed state of Minnesota, might be "allowing" some who want to, return to work. Why is this so important? Besides the obvious reasons? This COVID - 19 thing has "thrown us off the horse". Not only thrown us off the horse, but also has kept us down in the dirt and dust for over a month. But now it is time. Time to get back on the horse.

The Scarf Queen thinks we will need to keep our distance from others (social distancing) until the summer is over. Bit whoop. And then what? Get ready for round 2 of this thing? Then the powers that be will direct us to keep our 6' distancing up until this new flu season is over. The people however, think differently. This has been made evident by yet another weekend of protesting. Not just in one state - all over the country. Why? We are Americans. The state in which we live does not matter, as much as the country in which we live. We are Americans who want to "get back on the horse". We want to go back to work. We want our normal back.

Where do we go from here? First off, most of us are not naive. We know the sickness and death will continue. Worldwide, slightly over 3 million have caught this virus. A bit over 200,000 have died. BUT - almost a million have recovered. AND, more and more doctors think the number of people who are asymptomatic is much bigger than once thought. In other words, your chances of catching this virus, and then dying, are still a fraction of a percent. And if we factor out the people who have died in care facilities, the ones who died who had other complications, and the ones who were misdiagnosed - that number gets really small.

What then are the huddled masses saying on this Monday morning? "Hi ho, hi ho - it's off to work we go." It is time once again to be an example for the rest of the world. Sure, we got knocked off the horse. But now we are getting right back on. Fearful? No. Cautious? Always. We will make it work. We always do.