COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 117

Ten thousand new COVID-19 cases in Florida today. In a single day. I'm feeling really smart about refusing to go down there like my mother wanted. My state's rate of infection is climbing, too, but not like that because our population is smaller and less dense, and because our governor has a conscience and a brain in his head and refuses to pretend that everything is fine.

Atlanta has returned to Phase One in a belated, and I fear doomed, effort to stem the viral tide, and that puts paid to any hope I cherished of at least going to the aquarium this year. I'm sad because now there's no bright spot for which to hope, but it is what it is, and this is American life now and will be until we stop throwing a childish strop about our freeeeeedom and how we can't let the experts trying desperately to keep us alive fearmongering, America-hating, godless hippies win by wearing a mask.

It's going to be a long year.