Who came up with the idea to not shake hands or fist bump during a respiratory pandemic? Their idea is to halve the distance between noses with an elbow bump. Granted virus could be spread with a handshake, but far less likely with a fist bump than getting noses eighteen to twenty-four inches apart.

            Who came up with the idea for the Federal Government to not distribute personal protective equipment to the states but cause them to run up cost competing against each other? Same applies with the mishmash of who gets the vaccine and where. If you can stand it, North Dakota will vaccinate anyone whether or not they are residents. Florida did the same thing for a few weeks to attract snowbirds from the northern states, Canada, and Europe. The decision got people to stay down for several weeks to boost the economy. Year -around residents protested being left out.

            Of course almost all drivers in the United States have been subjected to an extremely stupid idea that has become some ill-conceived regulation. That stupid idea is the passenger side outside mirror that says “objects in this mirror are closer than they appear”. Is it so you can see the license number of the vehicle you are about to meet? Why put a mirror on a vehicle that is undependable.

            An extremely dumb and destructive idea was invented over thirty years ago to allow people to transfer massive amounts of data from one place to another. Of course the purely sensible internet was destroyed by becoming the vehicle which social media uses to spread lies and personal information. Now truth and privacy are gone and perhaps gone forever.

            The last idea may cause the downfall of civilization but the rest are just dumb ideas that are accepted or thrust upon us.