Wall Street Journal and Covid-19

California finally opened up on 15 June. Locals can actually set foot inside stores and restaurants without having to wear a mask according to Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

This is all good news for Brits thinking of taking a holiday via Los Angeles in August onwards.

Kessler writes in WSJ that more than 70% of California adults have at least one vaccine jab. The state’s seven-day average number of daily coronavirus cases is down 98% from its peak in January. But they are being careful.  Governor Gavin Newsom is keeping his emergency powers.

In case he changed his mind Kessler made a trip to the local Trader Joe’s to stock up on Ultra Chocolate ice cream.   He counted 50 shoppers, 49 masked. He was the only one not wearing a mask, and was loving it.

“I noticed many shoppers giving me the stink eye,” he wrote in that dignified newspaper. “Maybe those 49 maskers haven’t yet been vaccinated.  So who exactly are they protecting? Me? Thanks but no thanks.”

“Returning to normal is going to take a while. Maybe the Trader Joe’s shoppers are actually saving the planet, and I should be grateful. Or maybe, like Japan, masks are here to stay as a sign that we care about others.”

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