I take another picture, the world is waiting

[sovay]

Massachusetts is reopening and I have gone back to the glassy feeling of not quite being in the same reality as the people who are saying the words. "Tough times never last, tough people do." Well, good for the tough people. Shame about the rest of us. I don't expect a second spike of infections in the fall, I expect one by July at the latest. But I'm glad houses of worship are considered essential businesses in Massachusetts. I'm sure that ancestor of mine from the Puritan migration would be thrilled.

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[sovay]

We are not as disposable as the "tough people" insist we ought to become. We never have been.

I assume the lieutenant governor meant it to be encouraging, not eugenicist, but it's not language that helps. You would have thought in a pandemic people would have noticed that you can't chin-up-try-hard your way out of dying.

[dewline]

Some people in high places do their best to pay attention to these things and have been shaping their language accordingly. For such people and their efforts, I am grateful.

For the others, I am less willing to forgive right now. I certainly won't forget.

[sovay]

For the others, I am less willing to forgive right now. I certainly won't forget.

Since publishing, the article has been edited to remove that quote. It's still in the transcript.