BLESSING ICU OUTTA BEDS AND WE'RE ONLY AT 11%

 So this is us at 11%. 

Winter will soon shut us in. We already have a preview of what that looks like. North Dakota 67%. ICU won't be full. It'll explode. 

So y'all just DINE IN, Have a mass THANKSGIVING HOE DOWN and call the Governor names, maybe fat shame a little (that's always clever) and we'll hit the big six-seven.

You know what happens then.  Our caregivers will start to die, and then quit. It'll be "Silent Spring" without the nuclear explosion. 

How did an all-knowing God create a tribe that so stupidly behaved contrary to it's own, enlightened self-interest?  Beats the Hell outta me.

And as you read through this (even if you have to move your lips), please note, I didn't say one word about Government shutdowns or "stay at home" orders or business closings. None of that should be necessary. Not a single word.  The Government should not have to tell you not to poke a Grizzly Bear with a stick or to jump into a shark tank.

If you can read the caption and stil say "Oh, it's no worse than the seasonal flu!" you are blind to facts.  If you  can read the caption and say, "Oh, it's only the old and immunocompromised that it's killing and they aren't dying from the virus but from the pneumonia," you are both medically ignorant and wantonly cruel.

And it is my home, Adams County, Illinois that leads in this idiocy.  No place else in Illinois has the percentage of non-mitigators we have--dug in-- here.  That is a whole lotta lung tissue for the virus to latch onto.  The more places you give it to live, the more folks you place in danger.

Even the dimmest of bulbs can see this threat being played out right before our eyes. We can choose to be North Dakota (it seems we have) or we can choose to mitigate. Every minute you talk about "mah rahts in 'Murica" you are one more sentence toward North Dakota.

Our pristine, lovely county with all its good people HAS NO ICU BED FOR YOUR DAD.  The community that saved the condemned Mormons, sheltered the Icarians, Propagated the Underground Railroad and fed the Starving Potawatomi escapees from the "Trail of Death" does not have enough decency and empathy to distance, mask and minimize contact.  Think about that.  We saved all those people with courage and empathy.  But we're too stupid and stubborn to save ourselves.

We do not have to be North Dakota.  They are the canary the canary to our coal mine.  We can think our way out of that.  If you don't mitigate--if you exercise your constitutional right to fart in same elevator we all riding--you are not exercising your rights.  You are volunteering to be North Dakota.

Your Call, Naysayers, Minimizers and SuperPatriots.

Comments are wide open and welcome.  I invite any medical professional to comment and show me where I said anything technically incorrect.  And, in the meantime, medical professionals, you are in my prayers, from under my mask and at a distance (and I've already had COVID once).