You call this cabin fever?

It started in Michigan, where a pair of conservative groups with alleged ties to the Trump administration organized protesters to defy the same shelter-in-place mandates that Trump himself signed into law a month ago. It's happening in other states. Minnesota. California. Pennsylvania. Virginia. And, according to fellow blogger Chuck Miller, they're planning one in Albany for today after a similar protest was attempted in Buffalo.

Jobs have been lost. Normalcy is missing. People are going completely cuckoo for cocoa puffs, waiting to go back to work or school, waiting to get their lives back.

Nurses and other healthcare workers are counter-protesting, demonstrating what the protesters should be doing. For example, a nurses' union gathered at the White House. They stood six feet apart from each other (social distancing), masked, and most in standard scrubs or uniforms.

And, then, there are incidents like what happened in Denver on Sunday:



Some protesters are masked, others are not, and most are not practicing social distancing, risking their health and everyone else's.

Look, I get it. I've been working from home, and some of these other folks apparently don't have that luxury. That's what's frustrating them. This ain't the common cold, contrary to what radio bloviator Rush Limbaugh would like you to believe. We all have to adjust. Do I want to return to the office? Of course, but I and my co-workers have to be patient. It's going to take some time.

Some states, including Georgia, are putting their citizens at risk by reopening certain "non-essential" businesses too soon to placate the frustrated masses. The caveat is that social distancing must be enforced in order to stay open. Hair salons will have beauticians masked. They do that in nail salons here, but all the salons here are closed until further notice.

If you want to call this cabin fever, leave me out.