Belief

We like to think of ourselves as rational beings who carefully weigh all the evidence before deciding whether or not to believe something, but it often doesn't work that way.  When we receive new information that contradicts what we already believe, our first impulse is to reject it.  If we subsequently hear the new information repeated enough times, we tend to believe it more and more until it eventually pushes our previous belief out of our minds.  This is an intuitive thing that can be overcome if we try, but many people don't even try because they are more interested in feeling comfortable with their beliefs than in challenging them in search of objective truth.  Some people don't even believe that objective truth exists.  Those of us who do can't conclusively prove it, we believe in its existence because we find it easier than not believing in its existence.  That's why a criminal charge needs to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.  There's no such thing as proving something beyond any doubt, but a line must be drawn somewhere or nothing would ever get done.

I know Uncle Ken was speaking hypothetically but, in the State of Michigan, it is already mandatory for a school bus driver, or any holder of a commercial driver's license for that matter, to be tested for alcohol and drugs soon after being involved in a traffic accident.  They don't use a  breathalyzer, they send you to a hospital or clinic where they test your blood for alcohol and your urine for drugs.  They were also supposed to go around and do random testing from time to time, but I don't know if that program ever got off the ground.  We were given a presentation on the subject when the law was first passed which, come to think about it, was a decade or two ago.  I have never heard about that law being repealed or amended, but there are lots of things that have happened in the last few decades about which I have never heard.

COVID cases seems to be surging all over.  States that shut down early or late and/or opened up early or late, it doesn't seem to matter.  Looks like all bets are off.

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