'xactly!  I noticed that the article put them in a link and then went off on health as a legislative item. Drawing attention back to essential led to my infrastructure comparison. Ya wanna do without water? a bridge? sewers?  do we remember what essential means?
AnonAJ ... do you think maybe the rapture happened and we're the left behind? I so don't get what's happening in just the last 100 days. Barring Divine Intervention, we got 1369 days and 21 hours 39 minutes to get through.