Do you belong to a dark-skinned inner-city victim group? Even if you’re under 20 years old and nobody your age has ever died from Covid-19 in Massachusetts, stay in your public housing 2BR with 4 or 5 additional family members please. Wear a mask if you venture out onto the sidewalk or be fined $300.
(The mask law also applies to 3-year-olds, despite the Swiss saying that the science is settled regarding children under 10 not being able to spread the virus.)
What if you’re old, rich, and white? Fore!! “Golf courses in Massachusetts can open, effective immediately”
“We’re All In This Together” is the banner across the main street of our town. Good reminder as one drives one’s $130,000 Mercedes SUV to the golf course!
Related:
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/04/15/your-lockdown-may-vary/
- Boston Globe article on a nearby golf club ($65,000 to join; $22,000 per year in fees… back in 2013)
The Swiss are wrong about the science being settleded for little kids. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01354-0
Bradley: Of course they are! Just as anyone who says that the science of climate prediction ISN’T settled is wrong! That is the beauty of science and scientific consensus.
That’s a false equivalence. Climate-change deniers don’t have an article in nature.
From 2019: The world’s coastal cities have been warned to prepare for the possibility of a sea level rise exceeding 2 metres by the end of the century, with “profound consequences for humanity.”
A new assessment found runaway carbon emissions and melting ice sheets could result in such a worst case scenario, potentially double the upper limit outlined by the UN climate science panel’s last major report.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203700-sea-level-rise-could-hit-2-metres-by-2100-much-worse-than-feared/#ixzz6LwhqPHOL
(Click through to the paper and find that they are now using Structured Expert Judgment.)
You prefer an article from Nature itself? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01125-x is from last month and characterizes the “science” of climate prediction as unsettled due to unforeseeable events such as coronavirus, Brexit, etc.
Golf courses never closed in Arizona. The only added rule is one person per golf cart and keep six feet social distance. Everyday I see lots of players enjoying themselves when I walk by my local course. We also did not stop second/third home owners from coming to town and playing golf. There are lots of private jets parked at the airport.
Our Republican governor also caved to pressure and is opening later this week (1-2 weeks early) even with lots of experts telling him it will be bad. He is also taking lessons from Trump by gagging our local college science people to stop them from doing COVID 19 analysis……
I just hope the summer heat will help stop some of the spread since it is clear we have no idea how to stop it otherwise.
I don’t think even a Republican governor (cue Star Wars March of the Empire music) can stop people from running numbers in Excel or other computational tools.
Maybe you meant he’s stopping them from talking in public about their conclusions.
Of course the reality is that golf in MA doesn’t really start until mid May anyway since spring weather and grass growing before that are not very good… and please, no picking on my former cub!
I assume that if I lived there and my kids were going to the most expensive school ever built, I would have an expectation that my country club would be very expensive, ideally the most expensive ever built.
Of course, all of it is for the children, the school for now and the country club for later. These shared community spaces are what bring all of us Americans together as a nation. #inthistogether
Golf isn’t even a constitutional right! It took a federal judge to finally allow gun shops to reopen in MA (this Saturday) and the commonwealth fought tooth and nail to stop it. Shooting ranges are still closed.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-gun-shops-allowed-to-reopen-as-judge-overturns-governors-order/2120414/
“There is no justification here,” the judge said. “These plaintiffs … have constitutional rights that deserve respect and vindication. And it becomes necessary for a court to do that.”
There are approximately 700,000 licensed gun owners in MA out of a population of ~6.9 million, so 1 in 10. How many people play golf?
Wrong question. As @philg alludes to in the title, the relevant question would be “how many old, rich, white people (who make these decisions) play golf”.
In New York’s Nassau County, public golf courses and driving ranges were open as of last weekend. Smaller parks in New York City have been closed while larger ones have remained open. New York State Parks have remained open with clean bathrooms.
Our gun club is finally open, it is all outdoors, and social distancing is already practiced, as nobody likes to stand within six feet of someone else firing a large caliber rifle with a “compensator” (should be called a “loudener”) and the spent cartridges flying into the side of your head.
I’m ready for some relaxing outdoor shooting.
Norway’s response vs Massachusetts
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176698/tomgram%3A_ann_jones%2C_getting_trumped_by_covid-19/#more
Good point, Phil. The lockdown has really exposed the ugly underbelly of American racism. Here in NYC the schools still haven’t figured out how to get on Zoom and the subways are overrun with vagrants but the brave NYC police are vigorously enforcing the social distancing laws but 8 out of every 10 people netted as social distancing scofflaws are black or Hispanic. https://nypost.com/2020/05/08/nypd-gives-most-social-distancing-summonses-arrests-to-blacks-hispanics/ Sounds like racism to me.
Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts
https://babylonbee.com/news/inspiring-celebrities-spell-out-were-all-in-this-together-with-their-yachts