Well it is Friday, TGIF, and a little sunshine for the day. I spent most of the day cutting two lawns. Wow, my bad, I should have done it sooner. I actually cut each yard twice, gee I guess the fertilizer I used worked great.
Anyway, while you are mowing you can do a lot of thinking and of course discussing things with yourself. Today I was thinking about this contract tracing that the Governor wants to put in place. First I am really torn with this whole idea, tracing where you go, in case you come in contact someone with COVID. While he and Dr. Izeki where explaining, that you would get a call from some contract tracer to inform you that you might have come in contact with COVID, you need to answer your phone, even if you don’t know the number. Well when I do that now, I either get a Medicare supplement or my vehicle warranty is expired so have no fear I won’t answer. Second thing, why the hell do they need to know everywhere I go? And third, and could be the most important, is that for Illinois, they said they will need 30,000 people to work as contract tracers. They even went so far as to say if you are looking for work, give us a call. To me that was a slap in the face to all that have lost their work due to this shut down. And as we all know, once the government sets up any department, it will NEVER go away, and those people working there will be on the states payroll for ever, and have a Pension, which is forced by the Illinois Constitution , hence why we have issues now, and Pritzker wants to add more? WTH?
I get we need to control the virus, however, that said, I am scared that we as a people, could be in the first steps, of loosing some of our freedom we value so much.
We will see what happens.
More tomorrow, but as always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.