And the lockdown restrictions are returning.

I get it--record case count in Michigan yesterday.

What I would like to see is where the cases are coming from, and where the hospitalization rates are. Our dear friend Shelly is finally out of the hospital, and I know this is no joke. Especially for one of my demographic and health status.

What I have heard is that the colleges are swarming with new infections. My alma mater has a dorm where the sick are quarantined, per a friend who works there. They are near capacity and will have to start sending quarantined students home when they go over. While this is not a great development, it also seems to be the case that otherwise-healthy college age people shrug this off reasonably well.

I also have a good friend who is a small business owner. His business was one of the last permitted to reopen under the Governor's labyrinthine classification system. He can handle lowering capacity restrictions--to a point. But he won't survive another shutdown--certainly not without another stimulus to get him by. He already had to let go his No. 2 because he couldn't afford to keep him on the reduced payroll, and hasn't been able to bring him back.

We need to find the balance.