And yet in the heavily Republican area where I live, covid-19 continues to be talked about as a political problem rather than a public health crisis.

It’s so difficult to listen to people politicizing basic health sense by treating mask wearing and social distancing as an assault on American liberty.

Just last night in a small bar restaurant, I sat and listened to a group of people talking about how they wouldn’t wear “no damn mask" no matter how much “them damn Democrats" tried to make them.

Just one more toxic consequence of the Trump era.