How do you grapple with a complex problem that involves a viral pandemic, a cratering economy, individual liberty concerns, pubic health imperatives, populist movements and possibly some murder hornets? By pretending you're Mr. Wizard, apparently. Governors like J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom love to praise science, but don’t quite seem to understand what it is. If you super pro-reopening shouldn’t you also be super pro-maskwearing? Apparently not, because some people have to be more manly than others. Gov. Jay Inslee in Washington wants to punish people who don’t comply with his COVID-19 orders with getting then a butler/personal shopper. Incentives. How do they work? Hoffman Estates: home of narcing on ice cream trucks. The really psychological phenomenon of Zoom exhaustion. And finally, one restaurant suggests mannequins in empty restaurant seats to help with the atmosphere when socially distanced restaurants reopen. We guess nothing’s gonna stop them now.

 

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