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I have seen images of a chicken scented face mask from the fast food chain, Jack in the Box. I’m sure KFC has their version. Which got me to thinking. Why is there not a hop scented face mask? Citra on Saturday, Sabro on Sunday.
Or you could try to mimic the smell of a brew day as all the grains are mashed in. I bet more masks would be worn up around the nose if that were the case.
Come on Science, get us beer scented masks!
Time to talk about the police again. I wish it was a happy video of a policeman hooping with kids in the community but apparently, there was a LAPD secret party held recently. Problem one, it was at a bar called the Sassafras Saloon. Horrible old-timey name. Well, past that are more problems.
I thought bars were closed under the current orders?
Who goes to work parties, even not during a pandemic?
Who goes to a work party where masks are optional and doesn’t leave immediately?
I am on record as saying that I am not going to bars and sitting down with a drink. Wearing a Hazmat suit in the SoCal sun is not my idea of fun. But if you must continue the party, do so with a GD mask on! I am starting to think (slow to catch on, I know) that the US is trying to lose the game vs the Virus.
I have never been able to work a yo-yo but governors of states these days seem to be masters of it.
California Governor Gavin Newsom took away the bar opening rule practically minutes after giving it the OK. I will frame this by saying that I am totally down with the lockdown. We should totally be following the New Zealand model and we could be in stadiums watching sports by now. But we are in full yo-yo mode. Opening for Memorial Day, then reeling it back in after cases spike three weeks later.
I will also add that I am in no damn hurry to go back and sit in a bar or taproom but I do feel that I am being yanked around when I can go into a bottle shoppe for the first time in months and buy (after being temperature gunned) local beers. But the very next day, they had to shut.
If I, the customer felt yanked around, imagine the person who runs the store. They redesigned their store. Bought sanitizer. Stressed. Bought the damn temp guns to abide by the law. Now, they are shut again despite following all the rules. They spent time and money and it is now earning them nada.
Now, these places could just keep operating in the hope that enforcement is as up and down as the open and close orders, but why are we punishing the good actors, the ones who are serious about this process? Or I guess just go back into restaurant mode which is apparently A-OK because we all know forcing a food order makes the same space safer.
Here is what needs to happen. Pay people. Help people. We need masks on and social distancing but it can be done without destroying the entire economy or dicking small business owners. That means that the government has to not expect ANY taxes from all of the businesses that they are shutting down, then expecting to open after spending their own money, then shutting again.
We need clear rules and we need to hear sorry from the government for the screw ups. Otherwise, the dumb people are going to freak out. More on that in a day or two.