The Virus that Won't Quit in Summer

This virus isn’t letting up.  We are entering the era of the second lock-down before the first lock-down was over with.  The bars are being closed down again.   Chris’s favorite bikini bar is slated to close down.  Notra Dame won’t be the same when it opens.  There are all these restrictions and half or less capacity.  They are taking the magazines out of the dentist’s office.  They say that long half hour lines have returned to the banks and the grocery stores because there is a new panic about being able to get supplies.   The death rate for the country is now $125,000 and it won’t be too long before we get to two hundred thousand.  The Texas and Florida governors are now forced into closing everything down and beaches for the fourth of July weekend have been closed down.  Nobody knows where this is going but the economic recovery we’ve seen may well be halted in its tracks.   Bars are the biggest issue because people let their guards down and don’t wear their masks and do a lot of loud talking spreading more water dropplets.   Right now Thom is talking about the massive brainwashing campaign in Chile when the Pinochet government took over.  It would seem that Trump and Mike Pence are making major fools of themselves with the satements they hve made lately about their being no new crisis now and if anything Mike Pence is proud of the progress we have made and it’s not at all like March.  The only difference is that now there is an explosion of young people getting the disease and not old people like formerly.  Then of course they’ll just transmit the disease to their elders. 

One of these days we'll get back into some religious stuff, but not today.

.  My mental state was not that great because I didn’t know what the future would hold.  I turned on KPFK on and Rhapsody in Black wasn’t on.  But there was a breeder’s cup horse race at Churchill Downs.  I baught a couple of races.  After this there was a Presidential chess set based on current political figures and a red, white, and blue board.  Then there was a thing on “crape skin”.   They have new conditions all the time.  The weather is cooler today than yesterday.  They said that rain was a possibility today and Monday morning. 

I called Paul after three.  I figured he’d be at his most receptive and I was proven right.  There actually looked to be a good chance of his going next door for me.  He said he’d call me back in twenty minutes.  He took ten to say that he’d do it when he called back.  Maybe he talked it over with Judy.  He told me to make out a list of things for him to do invluding of giving him my PIN, a jealously guarded secret all these years.   Very soon after this he said he’d be there in one minute.  I went right down but then realized I didn’t have my mask on.  I went to get it and over the PA I heard my name to come to the front door.  There was an intermediary to hand the card to Paul.  I thought it would take a few moments but I was sure mistaken.  This occurred just before four as they were getting ready to eat the first session.  I stood there and waited and waited and Paul never returned.  I was beside myself.  None of the staff including Leah was sympathetic saying that Paul was probably on erands.  I came back and called Judy and she said that Paul was at their own bank and to stay put.  It was time for me to eat.  We had an egg salad sandwich and coleslaw and chocolate pudding for dessert.  I went back here to call Judy again and this time she said it was crowded due to the Corona virus.  A minute or less later Paul called to say that “I’m here”.  I went down.   Paul didn’t get the two Cokes or eight ones but otherwise was successful.  He had to go to another Chase bank in order to activate my card.  I have his word that he didn’t change the PIN.  He gave me fifty dollars and two ones.  He left.  In the meantime I had gotten a cigarette from Mary Burnes.