So, I've Been Thinking...

So much on the Schloss-Blog's mind and not enough time to process everything. Need your help.

With the post office "slowed" by Trump and DeJoy, we know that many absentee ballots will not be delivered in time to be counted. Trump is counting on that.

But it's not the only thing being "slowed" by the post office debacle the president is trying to create.

Did you know that there was a 20 percent increase in prescription medicine delivery since the pandemic hit earlier this year? That means people's lives are stake. Now, those medicines will arrive that much later. Literally.

Is your prescription medicine delivery threatened? Is a loved one's? 

If economic stimulus checks ever get approved again and begin being dispatched to people, most will go electronically. But did you know that for people making less than $15,000 a year (there's lots of 'em too), 28 percent of them do not have a bank account. Which means they'd have to get a stimulus check, let alone an unemployment insurance check, by mail. 

Or, more likely, not get it. Not before food, meds and other critical supplies run out.

By the way, 10 percent of the U.S. population makes less than $15,000 a year. Could you live on $15,000 a year? Could a loved one?

And by the way, some 12 million Americans do not have a checking or savings account and therefore have no way to electronically receive a stimulus or unemployment check. They have to get it by ... yeah, you know it, U.S. Mail.

Which is being deliberately delayed.

The U.S. Mail is not the U.S. Mail anymore. It's a vehicle to prevent voting which is becoming a vehicle to prevent critical care for so many.

Hopefully, not you nor any of your loved ones. But some of of you likely are being impacted.

Speaking of being at risk, college students have been chased off campus and classes have gone back to being virtual around the country as "clusters" of coronavirus have erupted at colleges across the nation, in good part due to welcome-back-to-school parties that paid no particular attention to face masks nor social distancing.

But the football teams are still practicing at so many of those institutions, despite the way the University of North Carolina student newspaper termed the "clusters" of spikes:

Cool, huh? Not making this up. The college newspaper published this story and headline on its front page.

So, how are you feeling about sending your kids back to school? Are you confident that your kids' schools are doing what it takes to protect their health and safety and prevent them from eventually bringing it home as well?

Me, a retired college professor, I'm not that confident.

Yet, parents at many major colleges, especially at the Big Ten, are angry and sounding off that their kids should be allowed to play football this year, despite the conference postponing it for the fall.

So, to me, these parents are silent about and willing to send their children into mosh pits where they are likely to get life-shortening, life-threatening brain injuries with no protest to the schools to raise the level of protection from that but are angry that the schools are protecting their kids from contracting a deadly virus from which there is no known cure.

Me, I'm wondering, when did parents did take over college athletic administration?

One solution I've seen suggested is spreading out the kids along almost the full length of the sideline to keep them socially distanced when they're not in the game but to throw them into the mosh pit that is the offensive and defensive lines colliding when they're in the game. Yeah, that makes sense.

I am as much in favor of football being played as anyone in America. But I am in favor of doing it in such a way that keeps players, coaches and officials as safe as possible.

Like, maybe in the spring, when there is the prospect of a vaccine or herd immunity.

But these parents have never herd - uh, heard - of that. Fans in Utah and Alabama, where high school football is underway, are seen in droves not wearing masks nor observing social distancing. They can likely kiss their seasons good-bye sometime in October, if not before.

For me,it's time to say good night Mrs. Calabash and here's to you Mrs. Robinson.

More on my show tonight on radiofreephoenix.com, the station celebrating its 16th anniversary.