crazy weird stupid shit and what we can learn from president trump

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.