Not sure how many of you are familiar with the Old Testament but there are two stories that involve a 40 days which are of major importance to the plight of humanity, specifically the Israelites.  The first was the world wide flood where Noah built a boat that could house two of every single animal as well as his family and all the food for those animals (It could happen).  It rained for 40 days and 40 nights and the inhabitants of the arc were traversing the flooded earth for over a year.  The second instance of the mention of 40 days in the Old Testament was when the twelve spies went into Canaan for 40 days to scout out the future promised land of the Israelites (it ultimately ended in a 40 year exile in the dessert because the Israelites doubted God’s ability to deliver on his guarantee of a Promised Land for them). The New Testament has two significant  40 day time periods involving Jesus, the first being when the Devil tempted Jesus in the desert for 40 days and the second being the 40 day period between Jesus’ resurrection to his ascension into heaven.

While 40 days seems to be a significant number to God, our fearless leader Gretchen Whitmer would like to see the majority of her executive order extended 70 days, almost twice the length of time Jesus had the devil nipping at his heels.  I don’t even know if Jesus could handle a 70 day shelter in place order if he were stuck with my wife and kids while having to home school them the entire time while also cleaning the kitchen an average of 4 times a day, cook all meals, and field Shirley’s phone calls when she wants to make sure Jesus is parenting by the book and limiting the screen time of the kids.

A lot can happen in 70 days.  Why does it have to be 70 days?  Can’t we take it two weeks at a time?  No, get this, Whitmer doesn’t want to put the legislature at risk by having them meet every two weeks to reevaluate things.  Are you kidding me?  Health care workers are on the front lines every day risking their health to do everything they can to combat this virus but the legislature can’t meet twice a month?  What a bunch of horse shit.  The legislators are also complaining about having to meet, just what I thought they are non essential.  The only problem is if they were eliminated Whitmer would likely extend her executive order until she was certain she would be added to the Democratic ticket for 2020.

I am not typically a conspiracy theory guy, as evidenced by the fact that when Super Dave (my brother in law) suggested that the Obama’s were behind Joan River’s death (I think she was 97 but when you factor in all of the plastic surgery she was 113 in actual years) I didn’t buy in, even though he made some very compelling arguments.   However, I wouldn’t be surprised if Whitmer is being directed by the democrats on the national level to keep Michigan shut down as long as possible due to the fact that they are the home of the Big 3 (not the 3 on 3 tournament started by Ice Cube, I’d even watch that right now, that’s how much I miss sports) and continuing to cripple the National economy is the only way they can unseat Trump due to the fact that they have a presidential candidate who puts the S in senility.  Furthermore, the only way Whitmer gets reelected in this state is if she also takes over as Lion’s GM and leads them to the super bowl in her first year on the job (this could end up being too late though due to the fact that the NFL may not resume until after she is up for reelection) and that still may not be enough for her to overcome the complete goat fuck she has turned this into.

Why is it a goat fuck?  The reason is that the west side of the state and the east side of the state are two completely different regions when it comes to population demographics and density rates.  The things that are happening in Detroit would never happen here, even if we didn’t have the shelter in place order to thrust upon us.  We don’t have the population density for this to spread as rapidly as it is in Detroit, nor do we have as many people with underlying health concerns that exacerbate the symptoms of the Corona Virus.  Could the governor have put certain restrictions on counties with high population densities and lessened them on others?  Seems like she can do whatever she wants at this point so my guess would be yes she can.  On top of that, hospitals on this side of the state have been cleared out in anticipation of the 1,000’s of patients that will be storming ER’s seeking treatment for the virus.  Guess what we aren’t getting any where close to that number of cases, patients requiring hospitalization, or deaths, and canceling all of the procedures and anything that wasn’t corona related was a complete over reaction in line with many of the other over reactions that have been part of this thing.

Is this serious?  Is this so serious that we should completely shut down our economy and not take a common sense approach to who can work and who can’t, hamstringing seasonal workers who rely on this time of the year to make most of their earnings?  Of course not, and if the governor is actually looking out for the best interest of the state and not her own political interests, she will open things up now and make sure that the complete lack of common sense in some of the things ordered by her is addressed immediately.  High density areas are a shit show, I get it, but that only applies to a small fraction of this state as well as our entire country.  Why should those who have made the choice to live elsewhere be treated the same?  This was my rant blog for today, I needed to get it off my chest so that Shirley doesn’t have to hear all of this again either directly or  “inadvertently” when she is listening to one of my many phone conversations about this. Now on to what the Jansma’s have been up to on spring break.