Monday Morning Quarterbacks

We all have watched a ballgame and confidently told our buds that the one play that swung the game was totally the fault of the quarterback. “If only he had....” And our likewise, sedentary comrades readily agree and jump in with their own magic bullet play that would have won the game.

Our media talking heads and print pundits are jumping into the fray with, “We were woefully unprepared for this pandemic.”

Well, Einstein, do you have any other salient and profound observations to share with us, the vast “unwashed” and unaware pedants? Did you ever stand in the middle of a rain storm and have a friend inform you that it was raining?

“Brilliant observation, Sherlock.” Or should it be, B O, Watson?” We all know that this is a disaster. No need to breathlessly exclaim that fact.

And, I have yet to hear any of our putative experts point to any documentation where they warned us last year, or last quarter, that this was coming. And, what specific actions did they propound that would have definitively deflected this dire situation?

Hold your horses, Hosay. The guys who said that something big and bad was coming don’t count any more than the Hurricane predictions made in March. (More this year than last.) But did they tell us the category and trajectory of the storms? I can predict that there will be hurricanes and tornadoes this summer.

When we hear these solemn pontifications from these intellectual “all-pros” we should simply reflect on where their gluteus maximi were parked on “Sunday afternoon.”

Yes, we were not prepared for such a disaster. And, pray tell, which nation on earth was prepared? Not even China where the thing originated or at least was released. The question is not what we woulda, coulda, shoulda done, but what we will do. Then get out there and do it.

Will there be a “second wave?” What are we doing to prepare to meet it and possible deflect, if not “flatten it?” And, honestly, I have not heard any of our “Monday Morning Experts” explaining the steps we should take. Well, I have to back track.

“We need to get ready!” Thank you for your profound and incisive advice. It is a little long on rhetoric and a little short on specifics. And to top it off, some of the members of Congress are anxious to spend ANOTHER three trillion dollars on Corona Virus Relief. Incidentally that includes about one trill for the bankrupt states, and a pretty piece of change to study the demographics of Canabis producers and retailers. Obviously that is a critical component of the Covid Recovery. Bring it on.

I heard of a little boy who planted some seeds and then dug them up every day to make sure that they were sprouting and growing. Incidentally, he harvested nothing from that crop. The first three Covid Recovery infusions have not had a chance to sprout yet.

The best thing we MMQB’s can do is sit back and watch the game. Or to be blunt, stay out of the way. We can pool our collective ignorance at the end.