More Cactus, More Awful

Today has been interesting.  The wind was up very early.  We're tired, we wussed out on biking or hiking.  Instead we went to Trader Joe's.  They're still making people wait outside, one person out, one person in.  They have forbidden the used of cloth bags from home.  No, none, not any.  Please make a note of this.  We dashed in, and dashed out.  In that store we know where stuff is, so it doesn't take long to load the wagons and go.  We wore our new fish masks, a picture of which can be found in this post.

Here is the base of a palm tree and his neighbor for your enjoyment.  On the left is an aloe vera.

The surviving bougainvillea is looking lovely.

The cactus across the street.  Note that the top blossom has a bee attached.

So yesterday we had protesters wanting the end of social distancing, despite the fact that the case load is still climbing; particularly in states that have not shut down.  Perhaps this will beget social Darwinism.  I understand the desire to work and feed one's family, but then there is the whole dying thing, or infecting your kids thing.  The number of asymptomatic people who test positive is concerning.  Of 400 people in a shelter in Boston who were tested, 146 tested positive with no fever.  Without testing, how do you know who is contagious and who isn't?  It's not always evident to the naked eye.

And then there was this from our glorious leader this morning.

This is called fomenting violence.  It's against the law.  Jack Dorsey should really suspend his account. 

Yesterday, the glorious leader took out after Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Today Governor Cuomo responded to this tweet in a press conference.  It can be seen in its entirety on youtube here.  It's long, it's about an hour.  If you want the short version, which is about nine minutes, you can find it here.  You can tell the governor is furious, but he remains calm and answers the glorious one's points.  He then makes the case that while governors should be doing testing, the acquisition of components from various countries is the job of the federal government.  Our leadership has abdicated the doing of this because it's hard.

Every day I tell myself, enough with the Covid-19 on the blog.  And every single day, there is something too awful to lose track of.  So, here it is.