Get Thee Behind Me Corona!

"Well of course I know about the house party, I imagine most of the country knows about it,  I don't know why Beagles didn't just say it instead of hiding it behind a link and making me click on it to see what it was.  Don't I already do most all of the Institute internet research as it is?" - Uncle Ken

First of all, it wasn't just one house party:
"The Chicago Police Department broke up several house parties across the city on Friday night, Lightfoot said, and police learned of at least six more planned for Saturday night — including the one near the spot where Lightfoot spoke." - From the link.
Second of all, Most of the country may have known about it, but I didn't until 
I read it on my news app.  Third of all, I did just say it and Uncle Ken doubted my word, so I provided a link so he wouldn't think that I made the whole thing up.  How is this "hiding it behind a link"?  Fourth of all, I did my own research this time.  All Uncle Ken had to do was click on the link that I provided, and he wouldn't have even had to do that if he had taken my word for it in the first place.  

The mask rule never was an actual law, it was an executive order issued by our governor under the authority of her state of emergency declaration, which has since expired.  I only went to town once between the issuance of the order and the expiration of the authority under which it was issued, and I did wear my mask that time.  There is still only one store that I know of in Cheboygan enforcing the mask rule, and I intend to don my mask if I ever have to go in there before they come to their senses.  It's their store after all, and I respect the property rights of the owners.  I also don't want to bother our sheriff about it, since he certainly has better things to do with his time.  By the way, our governor has authority over the National Guard and the State Police, but not over our county sheriff.  I know this because of a case that was in the news many years ago.  It's kind of a long story, but I will tell it if anybody is interested.

I read in the paper today that the big hospital in Petoskey has discharged their last two corona patients.  If we can believe the numbers being fed to us, about half of the corona patients in Michigan have either died or recovered.  The recovery numbers are only published once a week on Saturday so, if present trends continue, it will be more than half by Saturday.  I agree, therefore, that it will soon be time to put this corona thing behind us, if it isn't already.  Truth be known it never was ahead of us in the rural counties of Northern Michigan, we just went along with it in sympathy with our urban brethren Down Below.  I would like to believe that they would do the same for us if the situation was reversed.

Speaking of being in sympathy, I think one of those good old boys in Chicago said it best:
"Ya'll overdoing it. Ya'll need to find a cure, talking about go home. You go home."