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> Curious if anyone knows where beekeeping falls for essential services?
I don't think it's a matter of trying to figure out what some municipality is designating as essential or for that matter what the government thinks. What really matters is whether one wants to follow the science and listen to what the epidemiologists are saying. This pandemic is the result of a virus that has an open invitation to explore human biology to an extent not witnessed before in our lifetimes. We are in novel territory both physically and mentally. The problem with the physical part is that individual behavior can unwittingly impart risk to an extended communal network. That network will include some that can die, and others that will recover but never breathe on their own again.
So I don't think it's about rules as much as it's about common sense and a factual assessment of risk management. You can increase your odds at protecting yourself, your family, and others with PPEs like a full face mask properly fitted and tested or a half mask with fitted goggles. This is where the mental issue begins to work against us - can you envision yourself wearing that gear while grocery shopping or dealing with customers. Sadly, our pre-pandemic social conventions interfere with needed behavioral adaptations and the result is assisted viral transmission. Just look at the list of states that are still resisting restricting any social behavior even in plain sight of what's happening in NY and other cities. During this pandemic, it seems like ignorance and science are forming a deadly duality with those that choose to stay ignorant paying the highest price.
I turn 70 this year with no co-morbidities except one, my age. Aging means I've lost a youthful immune response, a simple fact of natural bone marrow loss. Even knowing my vulnerabilities, part of me remains defiant thinking I can take some risk, and that's the part I worry about most.
Open Letter by epidemiologist Jonathan Smith - 'I Promise. I Promise.' You Can't Cheat A Pandemic
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/04/03/hold-the-line-coronavirus-jonathan-smith
Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT
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