Too Many Axes to Grind

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.."   Janis Joplin sang it, Kris Kristofferson wrote the lyrics with Fred Foster in 1969. 

Six months since the general election we are still hearing complaints about a stolen election from folks who voted for the incumbent. I believe voting should be easier from getting registered all the way to casting your ballot.

Various states are trying to fix "problems" from the last election that didn't exist.  The days of hanging chads is over in Florida.  People completing their ballots and mailing them in or depositing them in a drop box should not have an impact on whether the votes are counted and the technology exists to allow voters to track their votes.

But I digress: over the last year and several months this country has experienced over 560,000 deaths and spent trillions of dollars and has only recently gotten the number of new cases below 50,000 cases per week and deaths hovering at about 500 per week.  Vaccines, shots, masks, social distancing and common sense have lessened the impact of COVID 19 in many ways but we are not back to normal.

For many there will continue to be reluctance regarding "large groups" and mask usage and for others there will be reluctance to getting vaccinated and the results of this very human behavior will continue the disruptions in jobs, education, healthcare and many other issues that need to be worked on.