Well, we will have the Lost Season...at best.

Sorry I haven't posted in a bit, but they have extended the lock down for an extra two weeks and that was, while expected, a gut punch.

So, it is a Friday night and it is raining. Normally this would be great, a cooling down at the end of the week and the sound of rain in the cool May night. But not now. No.  The lockdown has been extended and all schools have been deleted for the school year. Look, I get it, I really do, and I know that it's needed and I am in no way surprised. But, for whatever reason, that announcement just gut punched me and made me depressed.

Thankfully, things are cooling down in New York and New Jersey, with the death counts and infections sliding downward. I have always kept in mind that the odds of getting the virus are low and if you go out with a face mask and gloves, the odds are in your favor. But to be slammed up against the wall of news for months where the numbers in my town and all over are going up, it shows how much you want to tempt your luck.

The states that are not on the coasts are not taking this as seriously as we have chosen to do and I am watching the numbers in those states rise. If the behavior keeps up, amoral biology will do what it does and people will get the virus. And let me talk about that for a second, may I?

All over the place I am hearing the strangest thing about this virus. From medical people on the front lines, I have heard that there are two strains of the harsh version of this thing: one that goes for the lungs and another that goes for other organs as well...AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHY! There is a mutating pandemic and they really are clueless as to what the hell is going on.

But I am not playing the blame game here. Not a chance. I grew up in a home with a father in the medical field and I understand the unknown factors of medicine. But I am literally dumbstruck that people as a whole are not realizing that we are no better than people in ages past who now seem silly or stupid because they did not know how to cure things we can do with a few pills and/or a painless sterile operation. We are grasping at straws like the Middle Ages. Yes, fine, you are welcomed to remind me that we can actually take a picture of the virus. Okay. But, even with all this amazing technology, we are guessing, trying our best with solutions we will most likely make us all look foolish even a few years from now.

The rain outside is still falling, but it will end at some point,

Let's go with that....