I have no idea. The White House and the CDC have put out so many mixed messages over the past few days that I have no idea what people should be doing.
What I do know is this: I’m vaccinated. I did my part. If you’re not vaccinated, I hope you’ll consider getting the shot.
Right now, Lisa and I are watching Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel. It’s the first time for her and the first time in a long time for me. Movies, books, and music are all providing us with a welcome distraction at this time.
After spending the first part of last month telling people that masks were useless, both the government and the media are now saying that wearing a mask when you go out is essential. On twitter, Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, who was one of those saying that people should not be panicking about masks in March, tweeted out that he ordered his masks back in February. Around the same time that Vox was telling people not to worry about masks, the surgeon general’s office also sent out a tweet, telling people that they were wasting money on masks. The more you dig into it, the more it seems that the many of the same people who told everyone not to get a mask were, at the same time, hoarding masks for themselves. That’s one of the many scandals of the pandemic and it should not be forgotten when (if?) all of this ends.
(Fortunately, because we trust neither the government nor the media, we do have masks down here.)
In sad news, Bill Withers died on March 30th. In good news, murderer Ira Einhorn died today in prison. Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good.
Today, it turned cold. The temperature plunged from 70 to 48. It’s supposed to rain for the next few days. Fortunately, we were already planning on staying inside for the foreseeable future.
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