smells like socks & tastes like apple schnapps.

#not this again

Case counts are rising and schools haven’t even started everywhere yet.

I get that people need cashflow, and businesses need, well, business. But the Christmas shopping season is probably the worst time of the year for spreading viruses. Everywhere is packed, it’s flu season, it’s cold so no one wants to wait outside, and the pressure to secure gifts for the Best Christmas Ever™ makes people even more cranky and entitled than usual.

The original, as seen below, was posted on Facebook by a guy in Cincinnati. Someone else saw it and thought they would have more luck propagating it if they changed the city to “Detroit,” because in the American popular consciousness, Detroit is a more infamously blighted city than Cincinnati. And indeed, that version was the one that proliferated, because it resonated more with the people who saw it. The original poster and the original city were forgotten.

Does this really matter to anyone (besides Joshua Cromwell)? Perhaps not. But sometimes people do this with things that are more important than porches…