You guys ever think about some of the silly things we did during COVID that were obviously dumb? Executives at Kohl’s determined that shutting down one set of double doors and making everyone enter and exit through an identical set of doors on the other side of the building might somehow protect us. That doesn’t seem very sound protection policy at this point.
Grocery store owners decided that one-way aisles would help. It didn’t.
Some places poured sand in the skateboard parks. That still cracks me up. We literally had dump trucks pouring sand into concrete skate parks. I’m fairly sure we are just a television sitcom for another planet, and they did this to punk us.
I had my temperature checked like 10 times a day during COVID. Thankfully, it was not a rectal thermometer. No one has ever cared about my temperature that much before or after COVID.
I don’t mean to be a “hindsight is 20/20” guy, but I think we might have strayed from standard logic for a bit.
Is this the same time we decided we couldn’t tell the difference between a man and a woman? It all runs together for me.
Remember when we let local health departments essentially make law? That was an interesting twist on constitutional law. Are they back to breast feeding classes and roach patrol now or still making laws? Hard for me to keep up on it all.
President Trump suggested during a joint press conference in Scotland last week that he might start drinking whiskey. Trump has famously been sober his entire life and I don’t think there is a human alive that wants that dude to start drinking. You think his tweets are crazy now, you wait till he gets a snort of whiskey to aid and abet his midnight thoughts.
Have we decided the China leaked COVID on purpose or are we waiting on a committee to convene and publish a report? Maybe Oliver Stone is on it. I can’t keep up with the world anymore. Is Monkey Pox still a risk? That one didn’t seem to stick. It was declared some type of epidemic in 2022 and then just petered out, pun intended.
Football is back and somehow we do not yet have sports betting in Missouri. It is nearly criminal how forces have slow walked this process, despite the will of the people. By God, people voted to send truckloads of money to gambling companies and we should have that right pronto, inflation be damned!
My “bet the mortgage” preseason prediction is the Los Angeles Chargers win the AFC West this year, with Chiefs and Broncos battling for a wild card. Don’t let your Chiefs fandom hate on me. Make your money and be happy. If you lose, Foley has promised to cover your losses, I think. Might get that guarantee in writing just to be sure, I sometimes misunderstand these things.
(Guy Speckman can be reached waiting in a COVID distanced line for the first sports betting booth to open in Missouri)
