Lockdown Skeptical; Ashamed of the West I am; a World of Airport Security; Michigan Has a Bad Person as Governor; Mother's Day and the Virgin Mary; BAD NEWS;

• About two months ago, it became apparent to me that the lockdown was unnecessary. The locals, with their genius for not obeying rules, quickly got in the habit of not obeying the lockdown rules. And to be frank, the rules imposed were never as chickenshit as they were in America and Canada and England. The social distancing thing was never practiced even when the lockdown was full Nazi slash Commie. People soon got in the habit of not wearing masks. The security guards were leaving me alone. So for at least two months, I have been in a state of wondering (accompanied by slow simmering anger) when I could go back to work because basically everything has gotten back to normal with lots of other people going to work and shops open as normal.

• So why are there so many people insistent on the lockdown being necessary in the West? The virus numbers I see don't seem to justify it. Why are there so many would-be communists and dictators in the West? What has happened to my "people"? I have never been so ashamed and disgusted.

• I don't want to live in a world where everywhere is as annoying as an airport security check, but this is the world it appears we are going to be living in. More people who would ago bout their day, minding their own business, are going to have explain to some state enforcer what they are doing.

• I really have a hate-on for the governor from Michigan. She is one of the worst Western persons in the world. Probably as bad as the Canadian and New Zealand Prime Ministers.

• I didn't do anything for Mother's Day. I did so because I had a notion that it was a commercial holiday anyway. Reading my favorite blogger (David Warren of Essays in Idleness) about the Day, I saw I was half right. Warren wrote that he didn't observe the day and instead did something for the Virgin Mary. I slapped myself for not having posted on WeChat about her. I read Warren's blog entry the day after so it was too late for me to do that. Damn those time zone differences!

• I wrote the five points early on May 11^th. It is my practice to never publish a blog entry till I have given it time to sit and then be looked at and edited from a different perspective. Whether mentioning this is relevant to what I am going to write now, I don't know, but this last bullit-point I will make with this blog entry is a doozy. And it was composed much later than the five first bullit-points. I just got an email from school management saying that we won't be re-opening in May, and that there is a 70 percent chance that we will re-open on June 1^st, and a 90 percent chance that we will re-open on July 1^st. Needless to say, I was very angry on the receipt of the email. If Tony wasn't beside me when I read it, I would have swore aloud and thrown things. I had been expecting the email to tell me my work schedule for the next week , and so it was a vicious shock to learn that instead we would be further furloughed with no definitive word about when this stupidity would come to an end.

• Comments? Email me at andiskaulins@hotmail.com.