3.5 years after coronapanic began, the National Park Service web site:
Tours of Glen Canyon Dam
Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, the dam is closed to the public.
In case the above is memory-holed:
At Yellowstone, the National Park Service encourages visitors to wear a mask and social distance when outside in a 20-knot breeze:
What are other Americans up to? Just 10 minutes from the National Park Service HQ in Washington, D.C., there is a 24/7 bathhouse:
(The 2SLGBTQQIA+ club reopened in the summer of 2021. A 12-year-old needed to show his/her/zir/their vaccine papers to go to a public place in D.C., such as a restaurant, but the Covidcrats didn’t see any infectious disease potential in a venue where a customer might have sex with 25 different partners in one night.)
Perhaps we’re just looking at #AbundanceOfCaution and slavish devotion to CDC guidance? Here’s the CDC’s main page for COVID-19 prevention (the filename is actually “prevention”):
Handwashing is featured above even the sacred Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. The National Parks have become mass gatherings and are more crowded, certainly, than our day-to-day lifestyle in the city of Jupiter, Florida (see this post, and the photos link, regarding Zion). Florida city, county, and state governments are all about building and maintaining clean public restrooms, despite being notorious for rejecting CDC guidance on lockdowns, school closures, mask orders, and forced COVID-19 vaccination. We might expect the Branch Covidians at the National Park Service to have overtaken Florida government officials in providing handwashing facilities to the general public. Yet, in fact, I found the opposite was true during a summer 2023 visit to various parks. Restrooms with running water inside the parks were closed and/or being shut down (sometimes primitive outhouses with no sinks were substituted), thus making it impossible for the humans gathering in these parks to wash their hands per CDC guidance. Said humans are encouraged and/or forced (depending on the park) to ride packed buses, so the “they’re gathering only outdoors” response does not apply.
Here’s an example closed restroom in Yellowstone:
Near the popular Steamboat Geyser:
How about in Canyonlands National Park? Maybe it is unreasonable to ask the Feds to give customers a potentially life-saving running-water bathroom on a plateau that is so high above the water? (Some of the guys running cattle on the adjacent federal land seem to be pumping water, though.) The Feds are charging only $30 per vehicle, after all, so maybe outhouses are all that we can expect. On the same plateau, the Utah state government folks who run Dead Horse Point State Park charge a $20 fee and truck water up so that visitors can enjoy civilized bathroom experiences:
Only very loosely related… the federal government imposes just one rule for what it calls the “Fishing Bridge”: no fishing. Yellowstone National Park:
So I think the point here Phil is you are happy you got your monkey pox vaccine? That is what you are trying to say?
On a broader topic, you have had a lot of posts in recognition of PRIDE MONTH. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to identify the most meaningful experience for you observing this Month of Pride, a full month devoted to celebrating what in more unenlightened times, i.e., most of human history, would have been considered “unnatural.”
nothing “unnatural” about ejaculating into a man’s gaping asshole!
Obsolete religions had their churches closed during lockdowns, please worship in the 24/7 emergency bathhouse.
I can’t believe there’s an openly non-woke MIT technology professor. Is that really allowed?
I’ve been following your work off and on since the dot-com days (“Database Backed Web Sites”). Today, one of your tweets was recommended in my feed which eventually led me (back) here.
I felt a sense of relief, like coming home to a familiar place (where sanity prevails). It’s ironic, because this must be similar to what 2SLGBTQIA+ often feel. It’s good to get a taste of it for myself.
Keep up the good work. I’d donate to your gofundme except you don’t have one and I’m certain you need the money less than I do 😉