shut down one of the largest vaccination operations in the country<\/a><\/span><\/span> at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\nDamn, there’s a lot of stupid people out there.<\/p>\n
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I’ll close with a personal anecdote regarding one of several results of the pandemic that caught me by surprise.<\/p>\n
In April of 2020 when Covid-19 was beginning to pick up steam I was afraid I might run out of cash. Normally I’m a cash kinda guy, using my credit card only for gas for my pickup. I used cash for everything else, including groceries. So at the end of April I visited my bank and withdrew $400 in $20 bills that I thought might last me for a few weeks.<\/p>\n
But then for reasons that should be obvious at this stage of the game I started paying for virtually everything by credit card. Yesterday I realized I didn’t even know how much cash I had left in my wallet so I counted it.<\/p>\n
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I had $275 left. In nine months I’d only spent $125 of the original $400. Almost that entire $125 had been spent to wash my pickup at the car wash, the only thing I spend cash for these days. Pre-pandemic I always had so much loose change that I’d keep in a large container that several times each year I’d have to cash it in at my bank. I haven’t done that for what seems like forever.<\/p>\n
I realize that most folks weren’t as cash dependent as I used to be but I’ll bet many of my readers have their own stories about unexpected results of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Man, isn’t life full of surprises!<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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