Okay, I'll explain my easy to read post:
1. I'm not protesting anything now. I said I would if these restrictions on our freedoms continued for more than a few months.
2. In that case I would be protesting against government restrictions on our freedoms to go where we like and do what we like.
3. No, I don't currently get to decide as my state is under a stay at home order and many businesses and types of travel have been closed down by order of the government.
Duh.
I was being facetious.
I understand that there are people who aren't happy with the restrictions. I truly do. It's hard. However, it's necessary. And governors are having to make very difficult, yet necessary decisions for the public good right now.
Watching the protests might make some of you feel great. Good for them right? They're exercising their civil liberties to protest, by milling around in tight circles, most without masks on, in the middle of a pandemic. Some are carrying AR-15s. That visual might make a lot of Americans, or 40%-ish by my measure, happy....but the rest of us thinks it's crazy. You see protestors exercising their civil rights. I see Darwinism at work.
I haven't seen any wealthy Fortune 500 CEOs at any of the "protests" yet. Let me know when that happens. I have seen an awful lot of those people on CNBC lately, Skyping in from their mansions in the Hamptons.
Along that same line of thinking, here's an idea. How about we ask Bob Iger, and the new Bob who is "in charge" (but not really)....let's ask the Bobs when they'd feel comfortable setting sail on one of their packed
DCL ships. When do you think that might be? It would engender a lot of confidence if they in fact did just that. Get on the first DCL ship out of Florida, with their extended families on board.
I guess we could also ask The Bobs how they're going to open up a massive resort area, packed with tourists, when Major League Baseball is considering quarantining all players to hotels in Arizona where they will play games in stadiums, without fans. Players will need to have frequent testing and if/when one tests positive, they'd have to isolate for 14 days....etc.
Or we can ask the Bobs how they plan to handle crowd control in a resort that is notoriously packed, when Japan has had to postpone the Olympics because they realized, slowly, that it was impossible to do so and keep people safe. The answer might be something close to what Iger has already said. Face masks, temperature checks. Isolating sick guests to their rooms. Sounds.....fun?