Editor’s Note: Sorry, the events of the week have cascaded into production gridlock at Socotra House. HR distributed a questionnaire to ascertain inclinations of the staff on sensitive social matters, micro-irritations and the direct impact of events that happened to people you might have heard of in some other historical era, and relative willingness to distribute public money to people who may have been offended by it. One of the old timers produced a figure of the cost of The Great Society programs since their inception fifty or sixty years ago and was banished to wave his charts down by the loading dock. It is tough sledding in this part of Spring. We agreed that the week of remarkable things should come to an end with a nice appreciation of a nation rising from national hysteria. Something pithy and witty, gentle and respectful for the natural reaction to the year of solitude, yet insightful on those things that stick discordantly out of the mass of confusion. Since opinion was divided deeply, we decided to not go with the view of Victor Davis Hanson in his recent article “Whether the 2020 Madness Will Last.” The general agreement from all vantage points at the Long Green Table was that we have the strength to be competently and forthrightly crazy for the long haul. Regardless of what state we are in. Marlow says it his way.

– Vic

Author’s Note: Vic, Maybe the senior SH staff could discuss this opportunity?

A colleague sent me the below link. I got my shots and I once lived there. Maybe I qualify?

Regardless, what will the winners do and what else might result?

My guesses:

9 of 10 winners use money to leave the state.
The other one will have to await his release from jail.
Rumors will start that a disgruntled Silicon Valley engineer hacked the buggy software to fix the result.
Riots will break out because 3 of the winners are too rich and only add to the income gap.
Another will be a snowbird from Canada who fails to meet the criteria for non-Californian winners.
One will be suspected of having a false vaccine identification.
37 organizations will sue the state and its drawing for various reasons, delaying awards for 7 years.
California Highway Patrol will collect $2.5M in fines from punters arriving from Las Vegas from illegal fruit and bullets found in their cars.
State will save another $6M slated to demolish the wall as the Great Central American Evacuation reaches its climax.
So, this lottery process will nearly pay for itself
Biden will order a census update and California gains 10 representatives from the Golden State’s VAX Dollar Rush.
However, they will lose 1 seat, when Northern California counties vote to join Greater Idaho along with Eastern Oregon and Washington.
Telephone service will be disrupted across the state for over six hours due to the number of scam callers informing people they had won and asking $3000 to expedite payment.

What a great country, eh? The Golden State it truly is.

California launches incentive program for COVID vaccinations – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

W tells me that it’s time for my meds.

Adios.

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