The Barbershop: Dennis Byrne, Proprietor

Take Mary Schmich’s quiz: Are you ready to return to normal?

I took it and got a perfect score. I returned to normal long ago.

This will sound like more crowing about the open-life in Florida, but thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ realistic, science-based approach to fighting COVID-19 it’s real.

These are the questions in her quiz that I answered “already done it”:

Eat indoors at a restaurant
Eat outdoors at a restaurant
Sit indoors at a bar

Return to the public pool
Go to an indoor concert
Have friends over for dinner inside

Go to a shopping mall
Take a road trip
Hang out on a crowded beach

Get your teeth cleaned
Have your routine doctor’s checkups
Allow service workers into the house

Attend a religious service or yoga class indoors
Hug a friend
Hug a stranger

Shake someone’s hand

Some questions I answered “not applicable.” But there’s not one listed activity that I haven’t already done that I would hesitate or refuse to do.

Florida has not turned into a catastrophe. While parents and students have been shafted by the teachers union in Chicago, schools have been open since last year–without the kind of outbreak that left-wing partisans have predicted.

My apologies for bringing this up. My sympathies go to those who have been virtually imprisoned and damaged by unwarranted restrictions.

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