Coronavirus cases started out pretty slow in our city.   Back in March and April, we were seeing just a few each day.   Now, since we’ve started reopening,  it’s escalating rapidly,  with about 12 new cases per day.  Why us?  We’re just a small college town, and all the students have been sent home.  But we’re a border city, and lots of folks are crossing the state line to shop here. Help! Illinois is invading Indiana.

On the front page of our local paper yesterday, we saw a picture of a man who had driven 100 miles from  Illinois just to get a haircut and beard trim. I can understand him not wanting to look like a cave man, but does he not own a pair of scissors?  I’ve been trimming my husbands beard and hair for the past few months.  No, it doesn’t look exactly professional, but it’s really not bad, either.  And as he says, “no one is going to see me, anyway.”  Except our kids who drop by to chat outside. And they really don’t care, as long as we’re safe.

Not far away is a small shopping mall and parking lot.  Many of the cars parked outside since it opened have Illinois plates.  Why would anyone drive 30 or 40 miles to buy a pile of clothes, when they have no place to wear them?

On to the supermarket.  Observe the paprking lot at Meijers, and you’ll see at least 20% of the vehicles have Illinois plates.  You can buy more than groceries at this store, and people are loading everything in their carts from underwear to ice cream.

Illinois has three times more cases of Covid-19 than Indiana.  Is it possible that our next door neighbors are bringing the virus into our stores and places of business?  Help! Illinois is invading Indiana

Maybe we should put up a border wall.