No one could have predicted over the last year.
One year ago, we had just begun to shut down after Governor Newsom’s first in the nation stay at home order on March 19th of 2020. The shutdowns led to the unprecedented year that we have lived through since. More than a half million Americans of course have not lived through it. Their COVID-relate death, the grimmest statistic of the pandemic.
The economy plummeted and is still recovering. Millions lost jobs and some are still without them. And millions of kids came home school a year ago and didn’t go back. Thousands of restaurants and other businesses could not survive and went out of business. And the pandemic inflamed our politics and still does.
The good news is things have and are getting better. Too slowly for most but we are closer to the end of the pandemic now with the vaccines now going into millions of arms every week.
But the politics of the pandemic don’t seem to have lessened much with arguments over the rollout of vaccinations and the rollbacks on COVID restrictions. And even some arguing over the effectiveness of the vaccines themselves despite approval by the government’s public health experts with vaccines now being developed for children and teens.
The Democrat who is California’s governor and was praised last year for his quick action against the virus, is now facing a likely recall election this year led by Republicans.
And in the meantime, what many individuals, families and kids want right now is for everyone working together. After all remember what we heard after this all began last year, that we are all in this together.
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