We now have heard what we expected we would hear but were hoping we would not. The stricter three week stay at home order by California’s governor that began two weeks ago will be longer.
How much longer is what we don’t know. But it will be in force as we begin the new year and possibly for several weeks beyond. All you have to do is hear or see the news headlines here in the final days of 2020.
“California shatters daily COVID-19 record with more than 62,000 cases as hospital conditions worsen.”
“Health care rationing on the horizon if hospital surge continues, leaders say.”
And this one: “Dire COVID warnings go unheeded as many insist on Christmas traditions as officials fear new surge.”
These are headlines none of us want to hear just days before Christmas, what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. Instead, thanks to the pandemic raging on, it has become a time of wondering how much longer it will go on.
The answer to that question could lie in the answer to other questions over the next couple of weeks. Will there be lots of travel and gatherings. Will masks be worn, distances kept and hands washed? And will the vaccines get to all the most vulnerable sooner than later?
The answers to those questions will likely determine the news headlines during the first month of 2021.
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