THE NEW NORM
The
population of Franklin County Maine is 30,000.
We are a rural county in the western mountains. Sixty-one percent of our population has been
vaccinated. One out of every ten people
in our county have contracted the coronavirus and one out of every thousand have died.
The thirty-nine
percent of people in the county that aren’t vaccinated are not going to get
vaccinated – almost all Trump supporters.
That is just the realization of the who we are.
Our governor
has tried everything from giving away lottery tickets to vaccine mandates; but
you can’t fix stupid.
Vaccine mandate protest
Maine is
still making vaccines readily available for anyone that wants them; but I think
the attitude now is to open up the state and let the people who aren’t
vaccinated, and aren’t going to get vaccinated, contract the damn virus and
hopefully develop some degree of immunity as a result – and deal with it the
best we can, by supporting the hospitals.
When you
look at the New York Times Chart of cased for Franklin County Maine, you can see the
dramatic increase of cased beginning in late August. This corresponds with the opening of all
schools for in-person learning.
Add to that
Thanksgiving, now Christmas and New Years and this contraction level with
hospitalization and deaths is going to be the new norm for a while.
For my wife
and I, it is stay home and stay isolated by choice – which is actually not a
hardship for us; though we do miss eating at restaurants, which was our major
vice.
the Ol'Buzzard
