I need a fucking hair cut! I live in a county that is up to a whopping 6 confirmed positives for covid-19, none have died or even spent time in the hospital. I will park outside and give you my phone number. Send me a text when my turn comes. I am not going to get sick because the barber touched my hair.
It feels to me like the Ms Grundys of the world finally have the power to regulate our behavior and are abusing it. I go to work 40 hours a week still. I go to the mini mart, the grocery store, Home Depot, auto parts store, fishing supply store. But I can’t go get a fucking hair cut.
I went to get a haircut the day before my state shut-down. The barber told me 4 days prior (back when statewide shutdown wasn’t even on the table yet) a man came into the place to get a haircut but obviously had a severe fever and was coughing and sneezing everywhere so they had to kick him out and clean everything.
A father was arrested for playing catch with his daughter at the park: LINK
Later police apologized and said we are sorry we got caught (well thats mine, they said it was pver reach but I think they really did it because it made it on the news.). LINK
That’s ~50 miles each way, not counting side trips to the Lick Observatory or Winchester Mystery House. 50 is the mountain-road mileage of our Costco runs. Along the way are livestock, roadhouses, paintball shooting ranges, vineyards and wineries, an eccentric castle (for sale) with carnival and metallic zoo (video), Daffodil Hill, and Indian casinos. Fun for all.
But we try to avoid excitement. Old Chinese curse: May you live in exciting times.
Back to overreach. We went joyriding today. Nobody stopped us. I guess it’s underreach.
In PA it’s not hunting season, and firing ranges are closed to the public. So, other than creating mayhem, why would you need a gun? And with these Red Staters threatening trouble against the current guidelines, even more the reason to close gun shops. But like typical Republicans, gun rights activist place their supposed “Constee-tushinal” rights over lives.
Oh and for the record my cat is more important than your gun.
The only Nazis I’ve seen out are those fascists blocking hospital access in Michigan.
And unless you have nothing to eat and have to go shoot an animal to put in the pot, you have absolutely no fucking reason to have a gun except in your own fevered testosterone-poisoned imagination. Does it provide food, clothing, shelter, medicine? No. It’s just for making holes in people. Is that an essential need for you? Murder? God, Americans make me sick.
Yes, most farmers will have a gun to shoot a dying animal, or dogs chasing livestock, or crows in the cornfield. But they already have them if they use them at all. The only reason to get all enraged over closing gunshops is ***OUR SECOND AMENDMENTS RIGHTS!!!
Which is to say, only that part of the US which is violentcrazystupid is disturbed by such an edict. Of course that’s at least a quarter.
Not necessarily an overreach, but when I am near the Maryland/WV border, I pop over into Maryland to buy liquor because Maryland has far cheaper liquor prices. My favorite stop is just over the bridge from Harper’s Ferry (through about a 3/4 mile snip of VA) into Washington County, MD.
Two weeks ago there was a sign on the door stating that no masks could be worn in the store because state law required them to verify the age of all purchasers and even with ID they could not do that with part of the face covered.
Today there was a different sign mandating that masks be worn pursuant to Gov. Hogan’s order requiring face masks in all public stores still open. (Although it noted that the policy was not effective until tomorrow 4/18).
So two weeks ago, during a pandemic, masks were forbidden in liquor stores to verify age. Today, during a pandemic, masks are required. At no time was choice allowed and I guess 14 year olds can get away with buying liquor now due to the threat of the pandemic, but two weeks ago it was better to let disease spread than allow 14 years old to buy liquor.
