We’re in Hot Water
Visitors "Run Afowl" of Law by Cooking Chicken in Yellowstone Hot Spring
Three men were sentenced to probation and fines after rangers caught them boiling chickens in a hot spring, reports the Guardian. Walking out on the cooling crusts to place food in is dangerous and at least one tourist drowned in a boiling acid pool.
My brother-in-law Dave used to cook hot dogs in a hot spring there, but his dad was a ranger. Presumably, he was better supervised than he is these days.
The moral: it’s better to follow common-sense rules than take unnecessary risks.
Speaking of Hot Water, Check Out This Chart
No matter how you graph it, the US curve looks like a new Elon Musk rocket heading into a black hole. Europe is a way behind. The rest of the world is doing much, much better.
The cause is the usual suspects. Politicians and powerful businessmen block shutdowns or force governments to reopen them while disease rages.
Incredibly, the oligarchs and plutocrats fail to learn the lesson from Asia: if you keep the controls on until covid-19 is nearly gone, you can reopen safely.
Keeping schools and bars open as disease spreads may theoretically cost lives, but letting covid-19 spread is proven to result in massive deaths.
Not all plutocrats are so dumb. China and other Asian dictatorships are doing just fine. As are Asian democracies such as New Zealand and Australia.
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