USA Today featured the following item:
A small-town police department in Maryland has reminded residents to wear pants while checking the mail, yet another sign that many people working during stay-at-home orders are dressing casually, if they're getting dressed at all.
"Please remember to put pants on before leaving the house to check your mailbox. You know who you are. This is your final warning," the Taneytown Police Department wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Taneytown, in rural Carroll County, Maryland, is not far south of the Mason-Dixon Line. It’s not what you’d ever think of as where norms are broken or tends are set. So perhaps it’s something of a bellwether for how ordinary people are reacting to our shelter-in-place orders. Pants are optional these days. It’s consistent with what’s been selling at Walmart.
“We’re seeing increased sales in tops, but not bottoms,” Dan Bartlett, Walmart’s executive vice president of corporate affairs, told Yahoo! Finance about people who use Zoom and other types of video conferencing.
So, on the long list speculations regarding how society will be changed when the coronavirus is no longer dictating how we live, will we go back to wearing pants? Only time will tell…
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From NoMoJoe:
I was lucky that I wasn't drinking anything when I read this or my keyboard would have been drowned. In the [recommended] diary Boy has this hit the fan by abluerippleinohio, jeffminich commented about Trump realizing that after he lost the election he would be investigated after he was no longer the President -- i.e., post-office. To which bene0019 replied: “You just figured out why Trump is trying to kill the US Postal Service. Someone mentioned he was going to be investigated “post-office” and he’s too stupid to realize it wasn't about a post office.”
Highlighted by peregrine kate:
This comment by jfromga, in annieli’s recommended post about the two White House rats.
From your humble diarist:
Last night’s Top Comments post by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker was about how our experience with the coronavirus epidemic may change society for the longer term. I wrote a comment about how humanity forgets the lessons of the previous generations, but McGovern78 beat me to it, and with greater elegance, by posting an image of Nicholas Poussin’s painting Et in Arcadia ego. In it, youthful, idyllic shepherds encounter a grave with the painting’s title engraved on the marker. (Rough translation: I, too, lived in Arcadia [...but now I’m dead].) The shepherds become aware of death for the first time, i. e. they learn what every generation must learn on its own.
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