Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My husband and I went to the zoo today with our younger daughter and her two boys, the older of who got a negative covid test last night. We wore masks and socially distanced, and we had purchased tickets before hand. So there were not crowds, and people obeyed the rules. Our nine month old grandson saw animals for the first time: giraffes, elephants, zebras, baboons, gibbons, camels and our favorite, a big black pig. It felt wonderful to be out SEEING something, but that might be it for bravery for a while. Our state surpassed one million cases, and doctors, nurses and hospitals are overwhelmed everywhere. The is not a time to let our guard down. I'm getting used to the idea of hunkering down for the holidays and hoping for the best in the new year. Anything else seems crazy. Because nobody is in control of this pandemic. We are at its mercy. Why people are not being careful is beyond my conprehension. Don't they know, at this point, people who've struggled with covid or died? Don't they care? Wishing it away is not possible. And yet, there is the president closing his eyes, hands over his ears, refusing to see the devastation he has wrought. And his supporters follow that example. It's purely insane.