If none of this makes any sense, Oregon and Washington make even less sense.
We rode out to Owyhee Reservoir yesterday, which is posted as “closed”, as are all state parks, but the road in runs through BLM, which is open and packed with campers and fishermen. The boat launches were closed except to people with cabins, of which there are only a handful. But there were at least 20-30 trucks and trailers parked at the lower launch. We didn’t see any boats, so I’m assuming they must’ve been recreating further up the reservoir, and the park rangers didn’t seem to be doing much more than just being visible.
It’s almost like both Oregon and Washington Governors, who seemed to have used the same “Pandemic Response for Dummies” manual, are doing exactly what frustrates their Eastern residents most – Governing the whole state based on the issues in their largest, most densely packed cities.

This is what I like to see. People not afraid. People that want to be free. Socialism, the prelude to full Communism, needs to squash down courage and freedom. The protest at the capitol and the actions of people enjoying themselves are a breath of fresh air.

Meanwhile, I witness the revival of the NKVD on local social media forums like Nextdoor, where Stasi agents constantly post when they see a free person out of their home. Doesn’t matter that they are 100 yards from anyone, they are NOT home, waiting for the Establishment to give them their orders. A former Dem legislator is usually prodding the shaming rituals.

It’s really true that inside of these new Lefties that there is a totalitarian fighting to get out.

Government job. It’s call getting paid for not working. Now if they got a new rule that makes work even easier?

My father tells the WW-II stories of the people who refused to turn out lights at night, so the police broke the bulbs. However, there was good standing for that darkout rule. Problem we have with Covid is the facts are not clear. I don’t drink the far right kool-aid, but if the TSA starts probing each person entering WalMart I totally don’t give a crap if revolution starts.

BTW: As for Kool-Aid, Zerohedge is a joke publication owned by a Bulgarian parent company. A touch of leveraged truth in each story. Amazing how many right-nuts think it’s truth when it’s written by commie propaganda experts to sew seeds of distrust. So be careful, they just pumping you full of powdered eggs and other artificial paranoid prepper bullcrap.

Right. Let’s see what happens in a few weeks to the numbers.

Methinks no elected official is willing to let anyone die “on my watch.” The guv is following suit of his 49 peers and certainly doesn’t want Idaho to be singled out for late-night TV ridicule.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
– Patrick Henry

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
– Samuel Adams

Correction : Zero Hedge is published in Canada, has been around a long time, and is generally regarded worldwide as one of the last news aggregators that isn’t 100% Oligarch propaganda.

With a whopping 4 new confirmed cases yesterday it seems time for Idaho to experiment with opening parks, rivers and lakes, not to mention the small businesses that service these. I am entirely unsure if another 10 days is required. Idaho has been below R0 = 1 for weeks now. Being below 1 is the marker required, as Germany has noted. Germany is opening back up now. Changes will need to be made and monitoring will require people to self-report immediately if they show symptoms or have come into contact with a newly infected. It’s science. Wash your hands and wear a mask and get on with your lives.

The problem is that ignoring these rules has led to a plateau instead of decline of this deadly virus. Average of 2,000 deaths in the USA every day for the last 2 weeks.

Now people that can’t see further than their nose are insisting on ending quarantine. Instead of 3 hot spots (WA, CA, NY), we’ll start with 3,000 hot spots in every nook and cranny of the country. Instead of slowing down doubling the infections every 14 days, we’ll go back to doubling every 5. There’s a reason why the second wave of the 1918 flu was twice as big – this next wave will be much more deadly once hospitals are overrun. NY was a picnic compared to the next 3 months. In 1919, a Philadelphia parade attended by 200k people ended in 5k flu deaths.

I’ve seen this in other countries as it happened. Most people here haven’t seen it and haven’t even read the history. Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat the worst parts. Think about talking with your buddies at the fishing dock when your parents or grandparents or friends are struggling to breath from the virus you spread. And when the deaths start up, you can’t slow it down because of the 3 week lag between infections and terminal.

All you who want to get together – go to the gym in Middleton and work out. He’s open and not charging because he doesn’t need the money. The health dividend you’ll achieve is a corona virus!