the hundred years war...

it's day 4 billion in quarantine...I exaggerate, but you all get it...yesterday Governor Cuomo extended our pause until May 15th...if you are from Long Island you should recognize this constant end-date revision...it is like driving home on the LIE...5pm...any Friday...in the summer..."Delays Exits 13-21"..."Delays Exits 22-35"..."Delays Exits 36-45"...I'm gonna shoot myself Exits 46-62...at least at the end of LIE torture you get some drinks at a bar and ocean breezes with breakfast...here you get homemade hand sanitizer and a mask that keeps popping off one ear as some stranger walks within that 6 feet in a empty-shelf supermarket...and for extra pleasure as we sit captive at home...we can watch those of dubious IQ protesting shoulder to shoulder in states far away...no masks...no gloves...demanding an end to this pause...some calling it a hoax...or worse...angrily doubting Fauci and the CDC...and any other scientific approach to stemming the spread...and as the Governor of Michigan sadly stated...spreading infection further with these protests...ensuring longer quarantines at home...we have now entered the real danger zone with dealing with this pandemic...we have food being dumped and lines of people waiting for food...we have small businesses being shut out of loans so desperately needed...and airlines who were given exorbitant bailouts signaling layoffs (United)...which begs...where the fuck is oversight...leadership...I keep looking for it when I look through my fingers covering my eyes when our President talks each evening...and then eviscerates those asking the tough questions...and then I have to turn it all off...and I'm dreaming of that beautiful, tremendous, terrific ocean at that end of a long road...sitting here foot on the brake...waiting to hit the gas...