Monday, May 4, 2020

Your Money or Your Life

Back in the age of radio, everyone listened to Jack Benny's sit-com. One of his repeated routines began with him being held up by a robber. Benny was (in this fiction) legendarily cheap. The robber would stop him and say, "Your money or your life!"  And Benny would say nothing. After a long pause, the robber would repeat, "Your money or your life!" and Benny would reply, "I'm thinking. I'm thinking."

On Sunday families from Bakersfield drove 100 miles to Orange County beaches. Men, women and children gathered at the Pacific rim to defy the order that closed businesses and beaches to save humans from the coronavirus. 


Follow the money.

There was a related demonstration in Santa Rosa. 

Also our county board of supervisors, under pressure from some but not all businesses, apparently want the county scientists to conform to certain political and economic demands. 

They're thinking. 

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