Having Fun, the Virus Be Damned

 WINSTON CHURCHILL, despite being a war monger and a racist, was an astute student of human nature In terms of American culture,. he said it best. Paraphrased, he said: you can always count on the American people doing the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. Unless he said it before breakfast, he was drunk when he said it, but it still rings true. I live in a small town dominated by conservative evangelical Christian Trump supporters. At the local Pentecostal church everyone in the congregation has Covid 19. Whether anyone has died or will die from it I don't know. One can only hope. Apparently, the devout group of sheep within Christ's flock decided that worshiping at home in privacy was simply unacceptable. Apparently our friends were speaking in tongues and fainting a bit too close together without wearing masks. Since they're all infected anyway, they mas as well gather together the entire congregation and  speak gibberish yell and gyrate and faint to high heaven to their heart's content. And speaking of yelling,  America's football stadiums began the truncated delayed season dead silent and empty, but are becoming noisier and more populated as the season progresses and becomes more exciting and meaningful. Each weekend, more and more fans are trickling sneaking into the stadiums and it seems management is turning its collective head the other way, purposefully oblivious. Ten percent full has steadily escalated to fifteen percent, folks are sitting six inches apart rather than six feet, and at the current rate of population growth, by the time the playoffs begins, all stadii will be jammed pack, as per usual. In the stands, masks go carelessly up and down like venetian blinds at a frat party. Arguably, there should be no twenty twenty football at any level, anywhere in these United States. but heaven forbid that we Americans should make do without entertainment of the violent kind, and, most regrettably of all, we simply can't seem to muster up the money or the will to test everyone entering the stadium. Now, as winter approaches, a reopened America gathers together inside in large numbers, Thanksgiving plans proceed undiminished, as we weary of loneliness. The virus is already spreading more rapidly than ever, but we don't seem to notice or care. it will only get worse, worse than ever before, worse than it was in August, worse than we can possibly imagine, as we enjoy our entertainment and each other, like nothing happened.All because we failed from the beginning to take the necessary steps,  and to make the necessary sacrifices to save ourselves.