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143: The percentage mark-up of an 18-pack of Charmin ultra-soft toilet paper at Sandy\u2019s Office Supply in Aspen compared with literally everywhere else that sells the exact same toilet paper. (For real.)<\/p>\n
61: The percentage of shoppers who think the one-way stickers on the Aspen City Market aisle floors don\u2019t apply to them.<\/p>\n
89: The number of people in Snowmass Village who think they must yell to be heard by the postal employee separated by a curtain.<\/p>\n
96 : The percentage of registered voters who feel in their bones that Aspen City Councilman Skippy Mesirow doesn\u2019t totally hate that the coronavirus pandemic distracted from his now-infamous 2019 Christmas week \u201cright people\u201d social-media rant.<\/p>\n
0: The number of registered voters apt to forget Mesirow\u2019s \u201cright people\u201d rant when he\u2019s up for reelection in three years.<\/p>\n
8,404,221: The number of emails sent since March 13 that have started with \u201cDuring these uncertain times.\u201d<\/p>\n
3: The number of people who expressed surprise upon hearing that the open-carry friendly Shooters Grill in Rifle, which is owned by 3rd Congressional District candidate Lauren Boebert, reopened to maskless dine-in customers on May 9 in defiance of state public health orders.<\/p>\n
-1: The number of people who have said they will be even more surprised when they hear in approximately 10 days about how a new COVID-19 outbreak cluster has emerged among Shooters Grill customers and staff.<\/p>\n
38: The median IQ score of the people who think everything should open immediately with zero restrictions because this is America, damnit.<\/p>\n
23: The percentage of locals who have spent time around the campfire in Fruita and Moab bemoaning the influx of Aspen\u2019s second-home owners.<\/p>\n
0: The actual number of f\u2014s given by locals posting on social media about their getaways (including to Fruita and Moab) amidst a global pandemic.<\/p>\n
-8: The number of people impressed by your good hair day. In these uncertain times, most people are willing to sacrifice a good hair day in order to wear a mask and save lives. And then there\u2019s you, with the good hair, not wearing a mask. Tsk.<\/p>\n
100: The percentage of people who, if they weren\u2019t abundantly grateful for the life-saving work done by Aspen Family Connections (and their mountain of volunteers) before the pandemic, are now considering writing them into their will.<\/p>\n
683: The number of people who admitted to using \u201csocial distance\u201d as both a verb and an adjective over the past seven days.<\/p>\n
71: The percentage of people who admitted to feeling some amount of shame or self-loathing for having used \u201csocial distance\u201d as both a verb and an adjective.<\/p>\n
4,920: The number of hours my kids spent on screens last week.<\/p>\n
0.75: If asked, the number of hours that I will say my kids spent on screens last week.<\/p>\n
92 : The percentage of families who adopted dogs during quarantine that are now wondering if they still would have had kids if they had gotten the dog first.<\/p>\n
8,736: The percentage of local parents giving thanks to the Colorado gods for the good fortune of living, raising and distance-learning a family in a state that recognizes marijuana shops as pandemic-essential businesses.<\/p>\n
4,866: The number of locals who know for sure they had Covid-19 back in January because they suffered from symptoms that were way more like the crud than coronavirus.<\/p>\n
98: The percentage of people who are delighted to be self-isolating in Aspen-Snowmass rather than a big city (although 234% of the 98% wouldn\u2019t mind having big-city take-out options available).<\/p>\n
4: The number of people who admit they miss sitting in rush-hour traffic to and from Aspen each day.<\/p>\n
75 : The percentage of people who were kidding about missing Aspen traffic. The other 25% didn\u2019t actually hear the question correctly.<\/p>\n
More at MeredithCarroll.com and on Twitter @MCCarroll.<\/p>\n
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