The New Normal

Well, she's done it again.  Before our governor's emergency order could expire, she issued a new order and started counting the 30 days all over again.  I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV, but that doesn't sound Kosher to me.  I think the reason for the 30 day limit in the first place was that an emergency no longer qualifies as an emergency after that, but rather becomes the new normal.  Indeed, our governor herself has referred to this corona thing as "the new normal", yet she continues to act as if it was still an emergency.  The legislature needs to get involved, and they are plotting in their smoke filled rooms as we speak, but they won't be able to do anything because the Republicans do not have the 2/3 majority required to over ride the governor's veto.  The next step, then, would be the courts.  According to our local paper, "The prior stay-home order, in tandem with guidance issued by Whitmer's office, prompted lawsuits on behalf of anglers, landscaping companies, cottage owners, and others."  I suppose these cases will now become moot because the old order is no longer operational, having been superseded by the "new" order.  Indeed, the "new" order grants certain concessions to the aforementioned litigants, but I'm sure that the lawsuits had nothing to do with it, Gretchen just granted them out of the goodness of her heart.  Gretchen giveth and Gretchen taketh away.  Blessed be the name of Gretchen.

"I wonder if it will become like a tribal thing, where first people are divided by some issue, and then the issue becomes not so important as being on a side, standing with your people, feeling wronged by the people on the other side, so that eventually the issue isn't even all that important, it's more a case of us vs them." - Uncle Ken
I seem to remember that the country has been like that since the 1960s when Uncle Ken and his ilk took to the streets.  Of course in those days it was a different man that they were trying to stick it to, so it's the same only different.  Trump was elected four years ago largely because somebody else was trying to stick it to the man.  Governor Whitmer was elected two years ago in an effort to stick it to the Trump Man.  Maybe Michigan will go red this year in an effort to stick it to Governor Whitmer.  Not that it will do any good because Trump is incompetent, but it will make us feel better, at least for awhile.

The good news is that I was able to find some flour at the Save-a-Lot the other day.  It wasn't the unbleached bread flour that I prefer, but I made some pretty decent bread with it.  In times like these we all need to make some compromises because, like it or not, we are all in this together.