Correction, Sort Of

 Back in May, I wrote this:

...here in my home county, the use of plastic grocery bags was banned starting March 1. By March 20, the ban had been lifted – apparently, bringing your own bag to the grocery store helps spread the virus. Sure it does.

The ban was lifted on March 20 - that much was accurate - but not for the reason I suggested.*  According to the DEC, who should know, the single-use plastic bag ban was lifted, less than three weeks after it was instituted, due to a lawsuit brought by the Plastic Bag People - Poly-Pak Industries, Inc., et. al., in the NYS Supreme Court.  The lawsuit was settled in August (five months!) and the ban on single-use plastic bags will be reinstated in New York State this coming Monday, October 19.  The court's decision changed the original ban in an apparently (oops - there's that word again) minor way, regarding the thicknesses of the bags involved, so there will be plenty to argue about for a long time to come.

What does this have to do with the new world?  I'm not sure.  I'm not sure of anything anymore.  I'm hoping that it will contain a plastic bag ban, and any nonsense about reusable bags will be put to rest.  But probably not - we'll be telling tales, that are "apparently" true, about the virus for a long time to come.

Still no vaccine?  I'm going back to sleep. 

 * - The "reason" was something that I, like the President last night, "had heard about."  But the President was lying, and I was just being sloppy.  However, at the time, opponents of the bag ban insisted that the reusable bags that were to replace the plastic ones "can sustain viruses for months at a time if they're not regularly sanitized."  In fact, major grocery outlets banned reusable bags - completing the Plastic Bag People's bonanza wish list - for the same reason.  In July, Hannaford and Stop 'n Shop, two of the three grocery stores we use, lifted the reusable ban but insisted that customers with reusables bag their own groceries - which allowed them to remain agnostic regarding the danger of COVID contamination.  Trader Joe's, which has been overly cautious since the beginning, still does not allow customers to use reusable bags in the store.