We’re getting our vaccines this week. After the second booster shot, we’ll be good to go. But where? How soon will we get our lives back? If you visited East Germany decades after the end of WWII, you could still see the effects of that devastating event. Shattered windows, bombed buildings. The post war period was a time of hard-sharp and suffering that lasted for years. This covid-19 pandemic has been compared to a world wide war. How can anyone believe that everything will be the same when it’s finally over?

FACING A POST PANDEMIC WORLD. Life is not going to be the same. — Facing a post pandemic world. Will you ever feel safe in a crowded room?

About a month after being vaccinated, we should feel a bit less apprehensive about shopping, socializing, and visiting relatives. But we octogenarians comprise only 4% of the population. Which means that 96% of the people we see every day are still vulnerable. Yes, we can feel safe eating in restaurants and visiting relatives, but we’ll still have to wear masks and social distance.

The stock market is booming. People who kept their jobs now have bulging bank accounts, because they haven’t had anywhere to spend their money. Investors are betting that a huge buying spree is on the horizon. But is it? Will you ever feel the same in a crowded theatre with the sounds of people coughing and sneezing? Remember all those conferences you attended for work? You got to see cities and visit places you’d never been before, and it was all paid for. But do you really want to sit in stuffy conference rooms listening to presentations, while seated next to strangers from all over the world? And what about indoor sporting events? Remember the first cases of Covid in this country came from the gymnasium of a basketball game.

I grew up in the era of the big department stores. Even in our small town, we had a couple of them. You could spend half a day smelling the perfume, trying on clothes, going from department to department just to dream about all the dazzling merchandise. Guess what, most of those stores are gone. Shopping online isn’t half as much fun. And often you have to go to the bother of dealing with returns.

Are we ever going to feel perfectly safe without masks during the flu season? Will we shake hands when introduced to someone? A cougher or a sneezer will not be welcome anywhere. We all know too much about the way viruses are spread.

Millions of people have lost jobs or closed their small businesses. Their lives will never be the same. After climbing out of debt, they’ll have to re invent themselves and start all over again.

Are you ready to face a post pandemic world?

When I was a child, most ordinary women washed their own hair. Once a week was the norm. There were various shampoos like Prell that were supposed to do something special. Afterwards, you might set your hair with pin curls, curlers , or in later years, rollers. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that portable hair dryers made blow dried hair popular, and women began to depend upon beauty parlors. The point is, most women are capable of washing and styling their own hair. Especially during this pandemic. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi apparently can’t do that. I guess we all saw the picture of her at a beauty salon last week, walking around with wet hair and no mask. All of which is against San Francisco’s restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. C’mon Nancy, wash your hair.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Peolois should wash her own hair during this pandemic.

Nancy Pelosi was criticized for breaking pandemic rules at a hair salon last week. C’mon Nancy. Wash Your Hair.

It’s real simple. Just step in the shower, apply some shampoo, rub it in, and turn on the water. See, you don’t have to go to a beauty salon to have clean hair! Of course, you need someone to put on the proper amount of goo and blow dry it to the desired style.. But you’d think an 80 year old woman would have figured out how to do that by now. She seems pretty spry when you see her on television.

Let’s give Nancy Pelosi the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she has arthritic shoulders , and she can’t lift her hands to her head. Or, she could be afraid of falling in the shower. Doesn’t she have any help around the house? I’m willing to bet she has a maid, cleaning woman, housekeeper, or whatever euphemism is used to describe women who earn their living by taking care of other people’s needs. And she has some daughters and grandchildren nearby who could help out—if they wanted to.

Nancy doesn’t appear to be frugal. I can’t remember seeing her twice in the same outfit. Apparently, she lives in a gated community of mansions. Surely, she has enough money to pay a hairdresser to come to her house. Many people do that, especially if they’re handicapped. It boggles the mind to think she would break all the quarantine rules in San Francisco just to have her hair washed.

C’mon Nancy, wash your hair.

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C’MON NANCY, WASH YOUR HAIR.