Timing

Timing is everything.

With last evening’s announcement by the Wayne County Health Department of the county’s third positive COVID-19 test, it makes you wonder if the events of the week would have been different if the third positive had been announced on Monday. I know it is only one case….but still. Stay with me for a moment.

Would the mayor have announced he couldn’t enforce the Governor’s Executive Order on the same day? I doubt it. He would have wisely kicked it down road for a few days.

And if the mayor had pulled his punch for a later day, would the Barb Wire felt emboldened to open up their dining room on Tuesday?

We don’t know the circumstances around last night’s announcement of a positive test…only that it is a man who is in his 80s. We don’t know who it is…but this thing turns on a dime if he lives at a senior living facility.

If last night’s announcement had been made on Monday, do you think the health department would have taken a firmer stand on the restaurant’s opening? And when Chief Administrator Clark Griffith, went to the State’s Attorney to ask for his counsel, do you think Kevin Kakac might have had the “clear and present danger” he needed to step in front of a judge?

It is all speculative. But wow, think how different this week would have been if only that third positive test had come on Monday morning?

Timing is everything.