A local Democrat exclaimed, “Science!” before running into a tunnel painted on a wall. It’s unclear exactly what the man thought “science” was, but it was definitely something that gave him enough confidence to run full speed into a solid wall.


The man bounced off the wall -- as often happens, by a layman’s understanding of when two solid objects collide. Undeterred, the Democrat shouted even louder, “SCIENCE!” and ran into the wall again. The outcome was the same.

This time the man broke down, exclaiming into the air, “Science! What have I done to anger thee?” before collapsing to the ground and crying. Another man, a Republican, went to help the Democrat, but he was shushed away for “hating science.” *

https://babylonbee.com/news/science-shouts-democrat-before-running-into-a-tunnel-painted-on-a-wall

* ATTENTION QUACKIN, THIS IS FROM A SATIRE SITE.

I figure this ends up in the Attic, so I'll save time and just post it here.

Skipping irrelevant bits of preamble.... I went to purchase a lawn mower in the nearest 'medium large' city near me. In said city there has been a reopening of restaurants at 25%, of salons, etc. What that means is that 100% of the population are trying to go and do things that were locked up, but that said 'things' are at 25%. I've lived in this area for most of the last 30 years and the crowds out today looked 99% like Black Friday crowds......

After getting my mower (after waiting outside the store for over an hour, maximum occupancy means one in one out) I went to go home. A few blocks away, a general chicken restaurant's drive through line had 23 cars in line and at least 30 people in line outside the actual dining area. The drive through line wrapped beyond the chicken place's parking and into TWO adjacent business lots and blocked access to all three lots. In so doing, the drive through line also forced the patrons in line for the dining area to either abandon social distancing or dodge traffic.

To me, this is the ultimate case of unintended consequences. Thousands of people who still cannot go to work trying to get access to dozens of places allowed to partially open means inordinate crowding, waiting, stress, and more crowding.....CROWDING.

It seems listening only to health experts for 3 months means we are effectively forced into close proximity as we wait our turn at trying to live normal life. I physically touched no one I can recall at a public store at anytime in the last 30 years prior to today, where it happened twice, both because people tried to stay 6 feet from one another and then ran into me instead.

In short, mandating we not crowd each other in area 'A' seems to guarantee we crowd each other in area 'B'.

A local Democrat exclaimed, “Science!” before running into a tunnel painted on a wall. It’s unclear exactly what the man thought “science” was, but it was definitely something that gave him enough confidence to run full speed into a solid wall.


The man bounced off the wall -- as often happens, by a layman’s understanding of when two solid objects collide. Undeterred, the Democrat shouted even louder, “SCIENCE!” and ran into the wall again. The outcome was the same.

This time the man broke down, exclaiming into the air, “Science! What have I done to anger thee?” before collapsing to the ground and crying. Another man, a Republican, went to help the Democrat, but he was shushed away for “hating science.” *

https://babylonbee.com/news/science-shouts-democrat-before-running-into-a-tunnel-painted-on-a-wall

* ATTENTION QUACKIN, THIS IS FROM A SATIRE SITE.