Social Distancing

I don't know about Illinois, but Michigan is allowing restaurants to stay open and sell stuff to go.  Even those that don't normally offer a to go menu are planning to start doing it.  At first they were saying you could call in your order, describe your vehicle to them, and they would meet you at the door.  Now they are allowing up to five people at a time to enter the building and pick up their orders inside as long as they stay at least six feet away from each other.  Actually, everybody has been advised to stay six feet away from each other all the time, they are calling it "social distancing".  Large gatherings are prohibited, I believe it's more than 50 people so, as long as you keep it below that number, you could have a party, either indoors or outdoors.  Who wants to be at a party with more than 50 people anyway?  Any more than that, there is always the risk of mass hysteria.  And who needs to get closer than six feet to anyone, except for sex?  I haven't heard if they've made an exemption for that but, since it's usually done in private, how are they going to know about it?  So, Uncle Ken, just go to the supermarket and pick up a 30-pack of your favorite brew and invite a few of your friends over.  It's cheaper that way anyway.

Funny, but of all the things that supermarkets are running out of, I've not heard that beer is one of them.  Shhh!  Don't say anything about that.  If word gets out, some fool will put it on TV and it will become a self fulfilling prophesy.  I seem to remember, when Nixon put price and wage controls on everything to curb inflation, there was talk of shortages all over the place.  Somebody on late night TV, I believe it was Johnny Carson, said in jest that the next thing that would run short would be toilet paper, and lo, the next day it came true.  It didn't last long, though, because Carson soon announced that he had just been kidding.