Ludington's First North Lawn Meeting

[XLFD]

If you hear the words 'executive', 'meeting', and 'north lawn', you might envision the President of the United State holding a press conference out in front of the White House.  But thanks to the magic of the Chinese coronavirus, these words applied to a meeting of the Downtown Development Authority's Executive Committee who held their own conference on the lawn to the north of Ludington City Hall earlier today at 1 PM.  

The outdoor environment allowed members to engage in the business at hand from a safe distance apart, and with much greater diffusion of all those airborne particles coming from the actions of breathing and speaking.  They agreed to use $1500 in event profits for additional funding for the gift certificate program, after listening to the one public comment from Dave Diephouse (the man on the curb, above).  

After the meeting, City Manager Mitch Foster related that the open air meeting was held to facilitate COVID-19 precautions while providing an interactive and open forum.  He noted that it is likely that next week's Planning Commission meeting is likely to be cancelled due to no new or old business requiring their immediate attention being part of the agenda at this time.  

He advised that they are still looking into the governor's recent executive order on the Open Meetings Act and how they could try to be in compliance with that.  The new requirement for closed captioning if such a meeting were to be held is the main obstacle they face.  Foster did not rule out the possibility that the scheduled April 13th council meeting could be held outside on the north lawn with an expanded consent agenda.  

[Willy]

My guess is that Mason county has no confirmed cases or deaths so it's been left off the chart. Big fat goose eggs on the chart would not cause enough panic. I believe there are about 10 or so counties not on the list.

[AQUAMAN]

Yesterday I heard the infections in MC is Zero so far, but, that can change too. In Sweden, has anyone seen or read about them? They are going about life as normal, and just being told to distance each other. And their economy is going about as normal, with few infections too.

[Freedom Seeker]

Sweden is about 373 deaths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Willy]

It may well be that the the IQ of Mason County might also be zero if they can be so easily convinced to quarantine themselves when nobody is sick.

[XLFD]

Freedom,

Neither Mason, Lake or any other lucky county in Michigan registers on that Worldometer list because they as of yet have no cases.  For those who want to panic over that fact, it also means that nobody in Mason County has recovered from this year's bout of COVID-19.  

Like I have been reminding people, the conditions of a perfect storm emerged immediately after the impeachment trial fizzled and Trump was as popular as ever, and uninspiring sleepy-creepy Joe Biden became the presumptive candidate for the Democrats.  An opportunity to destroy the economy and make the prez look bad.  Hopefully it remains obvious to most that the crippling of the nation is being done by the blue team, while it has illustrated Trump's leadership qualities, and Biden's lack of same.  

[Freedom Seeker]

Go Red, MAGA!