Half full or half empty

HAPPY (?) Friday the 13th and midpoint of ECQ unless extended. So many vexing issues and dilemmas. The situation we are in reminds me of a very witty and on point New Yorker cartoon I am very fond of. Three people look at a glass and each has a different take. One says - Is it half full? The next - Is it half empty? And the last - Is it vodka?

That is how I feel about where we are. We are arguing are we half full or empty when we should be trying to find a way to make it vodka. Here we are at the midpoint of the first 15 days of ECQ and wondering what comes after - a return to GCQ, an extension of sorts, something in between but no one seems to have a new or better way forward. It is a draconian ECQ until numbers go down, then some form of MECQ and GCQ until the next flare up or we get mass vaccination done.