August 14--half past August already

Well, we have something like 167k COVID deaths here in the Good Ole USA. We have been fed with the "We're #!" swill for at least my lifetime of just over 70 years. It seems to have been dished out in larger helpings more frequently over the last half century in spite of clear evidence to the contrary like the highest per capita number of deaths. This little piece on Foreign Policy In Focus puts forth an explanation I think hold water. I do quibble with the comment that this country produced Ayn Rand. She was Russian emigre. We simply allowed her to flourish and find an audience.

I don't know how other areas are but, for the most part, Hoosiers are, as the ads say, "Masking UP." Only when we go the the dairy do we not wear our masks. It is small but usually only the clerk is there. She will wear her mask if the customers are more comfortable that way. At the other stores all the clerks/stockers wear masks and almost all the customers. Most stores are insisting on people wearing masks but the strict limits on the numbers of customers and the one way aisles are gone while everyone is socially distant. This blogger had an unpleasant experience at her Walmart and has decided not to shop there in the future. I don't know how our local Walmart is but we stopped physically shopping there before the pandemic. I agree that the list her Walmart put out is ridiculous. We did go online there for a recent purchase which was cheaper with them and had it shipped to our home. I won't weigh in on whether we are getting played or by whom.