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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The lone and level sands stretch far away

[vass]

"Tough times never last, tough people do." Well, good for the tough people. Shame about the rest of us.

Shame on the speaker.

It's also untrue. "Tough times never last" is a statement that's only necessarily true in the long run. And in the long run everyone dies, tough or not.

Re: The lone and level sands stretch far away

[sovay]

Shame on the speaker.

It was a bit jarring. As mentioned to dewline, it has since been edited out of the article, which does not remove it from the record or my memory. (I had no particular feelings about our lieutenant governor before now, but now I do.)

"Tough times never last" is a statement that's only necessarily true in the long run. And in the long run everyone dies, tough or not.

Both of these things are true.

Well quoted.