COVID-19 Crisis: What have we learned?
Grandkids Hailey, Brady and Collin; all three of them had some real oddities during the last school year, or so, in Iowa. Me and Steve, in Charleston, South Carolina last spring. Do we understand what just hit us? Maybe not -- certainly not in a historic sense. I was a child in the 1960s and well remember the terrible assassinations of that decade, including President John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and Sen. Bobby Kennedy, a presidential candidate. At just 10 years old I knew these killings to be "bad," but I had no clue how they would play out in succeeding years. I have a hunch the latest crisis -- COVID-19 -- will become the worst challenge our country has faced in modern times. More than 620,000 people have died of the virus in the United States (4.03 million in the world). The crisis is ongoing to an extent, partly because some Americans refuse to be vaccinated, and also because the strong Delta variant has arisen as the n