Some fun info from Aspen
Aspen is at max COVID capacity (ie hotels and rentals are as full as the city allows--in this case all rentals are full and hotels are at 50% max capacity which is as much as the city currently allows).
Restaurants are slammed, city market is usual summertime nightmare, out of towners jam downtown not knowing about two way stop signs and other unique Aspen local things. Did I mention we opened the farmers market this past weekend.
The White House restaurant has added a 15% pick up fee---so if you want to avoid CVOID and help a restaurant you can order a $22 french dip sandwich (no fries or any thing else besides some prime rib and bread and jus ) and then add the tax and packaging fee and your sandwich costs about $27. Holy COVID pricing.
Or my Bikram yoga place I believe has raised prices a bit as well. $25 for a drop in, and you have to register first and classes are limited to 9 people, and check this out---there is a $35 cancellation fee. How can the cancellation fee be more than the cost of the class? WTF
Speaking of WTF, Bikram yoga is open but the Pitkin County building is closed due to COVID which means I have to do licensing things online which adds an additional 2.5% to the cost of everything.
So restaurants and yoga and the gondola are open but government buildings are closed and in a recession the cost of everything is going up and cases of COVID are increasing.
Yea this is gonna in well.
And as long as I am taking shots at our local government (and these are well deserved shots) it seems its taking weeks to hire tracers and people to encourage mask wearing. what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck!!!!! When the town was shut down you should have started the hiring and 'training' process for this not waited till mid-June. This isn't rocket science, and stupidity from Trump on down is both getting Americans killed and hurting the economy. Did ya know sports have resumed in Europe because they have a good health care network and largely competent government (UK clearly excluded on competent government).
so what can we learn from Trump? Don't worry about anything. There is a reason he is the only president not to age 20 years in office and its because he doesn't read briefing books, doesn't care about facts or being wrong, isn't bothered by people dying or much of anything else. Don't worry, be happy Hakuna matata.
Monday, June 22, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
ohhh tempers are short and we haven't even gotten to the hot part of summer
to put it simply humans weren't meant for this.
They weren't meant to have their president lie about everything all the time.
They weren't meant to watch cops lie about abuse.
They weren't meant to watch prosecutors and unions cover up bad behavior.
They weren't meant to deal with sky high unemployment and sky high stock prices.
They weren't meant to deal with massive uncertainty about everything.
They weren't meant to deal with the hypocrisy of being told to do one thing via COVID safety while watching the very same officials encourage non-COVID safe behaviors (yea I am looking at you Bootsey Bellows open while bank lobbies are closed, and you Aspen Ski Co running the gondola, and two restaurants with employees testing positive that weren't initially told to close by county.)
I wanna spend some time with that one-----a government loose credibility when they make a law requiring masks be worn in businesses and then let bars open where patrons don't wear masks. Or let Ski Co run the gondola ----really how long till the gondola is a super spreader event (just imagine the employee whose job it is to disinfect buckets getting COVID and exposing it to everyone who rides the gondola). And let's put some names on this----City Market in el Jabel has at least 4 employees who tested positive and there are another 50 who are 'supposed' to be on 14 day quarantine. Similar percent of population in NYC would be about 4k employees and 50,000 on quarantine. Meat and Cheese had an employee test positive and initially the authorities said they could stay open----ditto Heather's Pie shop).
But heck, I should relax because the county policy is if hospital beds become 90% full they will shift back to shelter in place------um do these leaders of ours remember the 14 day or so lag between exposure and maybe needing a hospital.
Humans don't like this. And then they get short tempered. And then the ringing in our ears drowns out our better angles. How long till a BLM protesters and counter protesters come to blows and then our president might find his excuse to play tin pot dictator with even more troops in more cities.
I am going to walk my dogs---this is all too depressingly likely.
They weren't meant to have their president lie about everything all the time.
They weren't meant to watch cops lie about abuse.
They weren't meant to watch prosecutors and unions cover up bad behavior.
They weren't meant to deal with sky high unemployment and sky high stock prices.
They weren't meant to deal with massive uncertainty about everything.
They weren't meant to deal with the hypocrisy of being told to do one thing via COVID safety while watching the very same officials encourage non-COVID safe behaviors (yea I am looking at you Bootsey Bellows open while bank lobbies are closed, and you Aspen Ski Co running the gondola, and two restaurants with employees testing positive that weren't initially told to close by county.)
I wanna spend some time with that one-----a government loose credibility when they make a law requiring masks be worn in businesses and then let bars open where patrons don't wear masks. Or let Ski Co run the gondola ----really how long till the gondola is a super spreader event (just imagine the employee whose job it is to disinfect buckets getting COVID and exposing it to everyone who rides the gondola). And let's put some names on this----City Market in el Jabel has at least 4 employees who tested positive and there are another 50 who are 'supposed' to be on 14 day quarantine. Similar percent of population in NYC would be about 4k employees and 50,000 on quarantine. Meat and Cheese had an employee test positive and initially the authorities said they could stay open----ditto Heather's Pie shop).
But heck, I should relax because the county policy is if hospital beds become 90% full they will shift back to shelter in place------um do these leaders of ours remember the 14 day or so lag between exposure and maybe needing a hospital.
Humans don't like this. And then they get short tempered. And then the ringing in our ears drowns out our better angles. How long till a BLM protesters and counter protesters come to blows and then our president might find his excuse to play tin pot dictator with even more troops in more cities.
I am going to walk my dogs---this is all too depressingly likely.
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