My First COVID-19 Passenger Refusal: She Didn't Have A Mask So She Couldn't Get In & New Dennis Roberts Information

No Mask, No Ride

Yesterday I had forgotten my box of masks, and finally it happened, a customer minus a mask, meaning I had every legal right to refuse her service.  Where she was going I never asked and I didn't care, safety beyond anything else my first priority.  After that dismissal, I eventually made it back to my personal car and retrieved the forgotten masks.  Everyone, except for four previous passengers, have entered the cab wearing a mask.  Yesterday, a gentleman in Tumwater, Washington at a Fred Meyers store displayed a pistol upon being requested to wear a mask.  He is now in jail facing assault and resisting arrest charges, held under a $50,000 bail.  Has he not been paying attention, reading or listening to the news?

Yesterday, here in the USA, there was a new record set for confirmed novel coronavirus cases, 77,000.  Fairly dramatic when comparing those figures to the 11 cases President Trump mentioned way back when, saying that was it, the virus was going away.  He was just quoted as saying that the virus would once again, disappear, like magic, never to trouble us again.  How that can happen is confounding to the rational mind.  Magical thinking indeed!

Confirmed USA COVID-19 cases have reached 3.6 million, Through Friday July 17th, there was a five day running average of 65,790 confirmed cases.  In addition to the USA record set yesterday,  a worldwide single day record of 249,800 of confirmed cases was also set.  Globally the current death toll is almost 600,000.

Two COVID-19 doubters, the Governor of the State of Oklahoma and the President of Brazil have both contracted the virus.  The virus has no brain.  It will infect anyone.

Dennis Roberts Update

Tuesday I picked up Dennis Roberts ashes.  I was also given items left in his room.  His parents names were Roscoe Dolliver Roberts and Ruth (Gordore) Roberts.  They were married in Kodiak, Alaska.  His father was born in North Dakota.  Both the parents appear to be buried in the Woodlawn Public Cemetery, Flathead County, Montana.  They once owned a house in Columbia Falls, Montana.  They also had property in Gold Bar. Washington.  His father died in 1975.  In 1977, his mother was then residing in Kila, Montana.  I also have photos of his parent's gravestones.

This new information has altered my plans.  I will be contacting the cemetery and see if its possible to bury his ashes next to his parents.  Expect the Seattle Times obituary in a few months. I also have another photograph of Dennis as a younger man.  I will be using that for his obituary.