It's like they learned nothing from the first time around. NY is closing their schools down again and Fauci and the CDC are both saying they need to stay open, that schools are the safest place for kids to be. The transmission rate in schools in NYC is about a third what it is in the general population and they are finding that most cases in the schools are coming from outside the schools.

One of the schools in our league still has not opened for in person instruction so they can't start practice. December 7th is their first day for the year. All the rest have been open from early September to my knowledge although a big school in Reading PA never opened either.

This mask garbage just keeps getting worse as well. The state told the Pittsburgh Steelers that they MUST WEAR MASKS WHILE PLAYING. Can you imagine the gall. They can't enforce this so it will be interesting to see what the Steelers and the visiting team does. I may break my boycott just to see how this plays out. High school championship football game last night, the coaches gave the kids the option and they didn't wear masks, you can't play football, basket ball etc wearing a mask. And they never clarified anything so the swim teams are operating under the assumption that they have to wear masks while swimming.

And the MASKS DON'T DO A DAMN THING. I thought this crap would be over with the election but with that still up in the air it's like they have to make life as complicated as possible as a distraction.

My kids are supposed to wear safety glasses while shooting. It's a needless rule in an air rifle league, probably a holdover from the 22 days when there actually was a slight risk of blowback from a bad case. But so far, while at least three of the 8 coaches have agreed we should do away with them, the other 5 and the league chair are silent. My AD told me that they need to do what they need to do to be able to shoot but I shouldn't put those instructions down in writing anywhere.

It's just crazy. More restaurants are announcing permanent closures. Philadelphia for on has banned all indoor dining. Like people are going to sit outside to eat in the evenings in the cold. Our days now are in the 50's maybe 60's like yesterday but as soon as the sun goes down they drop to the 40's. In another few weeks it will be the 30's. They can't survive. And studies have shown that transmission in restaurants is almost zero.

A clear indication of what all this is about can be seen in Trump doing everything he can to get the vaccines out as soon as possible, even saying they should have enough doses for 300 million people before the end of the year and one state, New York and their governor Cuomo are doing everything they can to stop it so Trump can't get credit for it. They are actually trying to make this a Biden success when the man has done absolutely nothing, is not even receiving security briefings because he is not yet the President elect. So Cuomo says he won't give his people a rushed vaccine, Trump says fine, we'll distribute it elsewhere and then the State of New York files a lawsuit against Trump for withholding the Vaccine. They are freaking nuts.
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