The pandemic in Iowa continues to rage on, and we continue to have everything open, no mask mandate, a governor who will penalize school districts that don't open and who threatens communities who apply simple infection control measures for defying her. May her karma come home to roost, but in the meantime she has blood on her hands. Had the pandemic been handled appropriately, three quarters of those dead could have been avoided.
Then there is the inevitable hand of climate change. Sure, we have been using almost no fossil fuels, the bottom has fallen out of the oil industry, and yet, those are short term gains and the long term problem of carbon emissions and the sever and unpredictable climate it engenders is here to stay. We had a derecho that left the majority of the state without power, and countless weeks of clean up and recovery.
Then we get to the federal government. The twin insults of the Senate going home without any pandemic relief in sight for the millions of people on unemployment and looking for rent relief. That coupled with the president dismantling a constitutionally mandated service because he thinks voting by mail will hurt him. Never mind the people who depend on the mail for their checks and their medicines. Again, he is the most Dickensian of them all. Figure out how you are going to make your vote count this fall, because your life really does depend on it.
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