The natives are getting restless. Folks are losing patience. This lockdown, sheltering in home thing is getting a bit stale and tiresome. People want to shop. People want to party. People want to go to bars. People want to eat out at restaurants. People want to "get back to normal." People are clamoring to open the economy and get back to business as usual.
Funny.
The coronavirus is still deadly, super-contagious, there is no cure, no vaccine, medicines don't seem to help. The numbers of ill and dying continues to rise. The virus is still the global menace it has been from the start. Nothing has changed on the virus side of the equation.
The virus is deadly, nasty, persistent, patient, going about replicating itself in any host it can find.
Still, the natives are getting restless. The American Nazis are marching. The Right-Wing Armed Militias are loaded and ready to rock. Some folks just don't want to wear a mask or social distance. What about FREEDOM?
Remember Patrick Henry? His famous words: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." Covid-19 suppresses a smile and replies: "Sure, no problem, I have a deal for you, how about both?!"
Well, yeah, sure, you are FREE to get ill, you are FREE to die. But what about when your freedom collides with someone else's health & safety? Something has to give.
I am on the side of Health & Safety.
Patience Grassshopper. Keep your head. Keep your cool. Nothing has changed. Ask yourself: What is important? What is essential? What will you give up? What can you do without? What will it take to stay safe and healthy?
Do that, Grasshopper.
The a.m. soundtrack - Moby's - "Play." (1999). Yes. This record changed Moby's life. It changed my life too when I first heard it. It was an unexpected experience. No doubt, a masterpiece. A powerful, overwhelming set of music. Transcendent. Emotional. Exciting. Playful. Head-opening. A techno, laptop album that transcends. "Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis noted its incorporation of such disparate musical influences as early blues, African-American folk music, gospel, hip hop, disco and techno, "all within the context of his own distinctly melodic ambient stylings." Yep. Essential. For sure.