The center isn’t holding
What is wrong with us? How did we let a madman and a deluded political party turn big swaths of our country away from facts and science and common sense? When did personal research and knowledge gleaned from reading real information (as opposed to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and other purveyors of baloney) become passé?
A man in a Hamilton County store last week berated the cashier who politely raised her hand and asked him to put on a mask. Instead, he went right on into the store and began yelling at her and another customer – one with a mask – and said, “Ya’ll are just a bunch of Democrats “
Things went downhill from there, but here’s the point. The other customer and the cashier may or may not be Democrats, but they surely are citizens who just want to stay well and keep others around them well. What’s so awful about that?
The number of people dying of COVID-19 each day now, nationally, is three times what it was three months ago. And the number of new cases is six times higher. Hospitals in many cities are strapped. Witness Reno, Nevada, where two floors of a parking garage have been turned into a COVID-19 unit.