A couple of thoughts...

I'm a native Seattle who uses an umbrella. As this whole "real Seattleites don't use umbrellas" fiction enters it's XXth year (the same year of widespread internet usage? The year the Stranger went online? Who knows? Who cares), it seems to be pushed more by newcomers interested in establishing their bona fides. Umbrellas keep one dry, pretty simple and handy tool.

School kids shouldn't learn cursive? WTF. Is it really that hard?

No, neither umbrellas nor uggs will become a thing

Do you curl in cursive? Only if you use a curling rock.

Re; existentialism

I really really hope you are wrong. Jesus is the only thing keeping a good portion of our county from hunting people for sport.

Yeah, football's gonna be a mess for sure. They're gonna want fans there too.

If they didn't want fans, then games could easily be concentrated in a general region. Someplace perhaps with a couple pro and college teams is would suffice. You'd not need to worry about seating capacity or having all the bells & whistles of a fancy ass NFL stadium. Shit, you could play on a high school field, provided you got a grounds crew in there to tend to the actual playing surface/field. Maybe 7 or 8 venues with 2 games per day running Thursday or Friday thru Monday.

But the significantly less physical aspect of baseball and basketball also results in their needing far fewer training and medical staff on site at any given time. Was thinking about it the other day, and I bet a basketball team could run with a staff of not much more than 20. Dozen players, 4-5 essential coaches, similar number of trainers, maybe a video analyst or whatever. A lot of shit can be done remotely, in a pinch. Travelling contingent for a single football team is gonna number in the triple digits. Good luck with that.

@7,

The coming boomer die-off was always gonna render us a bunch of godless heathens anyway. This is just speeding the process up a bit. Feel like humanism has a lot going for it. Not as any sort of actual religion or practice, but just as a general perspective for going about your day-to-day. FWTW.

@9 The coming boomer die-off was always gonna render us a bunch of godless heathens anyway. This is just speeding the process up a bit.

You should research the astounding birth rates of families hewing to strict/conservative Muslim, Jewish, and Christian sects globally. Came across data a while back reporting something like the average number of children is 7. The average. Secular, godless types (like myself) are not prodigious reproducers.

@Matt Baume, from your lips to God’s ears! I’d totally be first in line for a vaccine that not only protected me from Covid but also made me a werewolf! Also the beard braiding thing sounds sexy as hell too.

I, for one, welcome our new hirsute overlords!

The minute Trump loses the election, the crackdown begins. Trump will be super-pissed and want to go out with a bang and the Democrats won't need the protestors anymore either.

I voted for trumpf
and alls I got was
Lycanthropy.

I'll prolly vote for him again.
He's the only one that can fix it.
He even said so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeb74iZjL0

@11,

Ha ha, yes I suspect it's quite possible that living in downtown Portland for the past decade has rather skewed my perception of how the rest of the country operates. Thanks for the reminder.

Please God, NO golf umbrellas!