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Phoebe Jackson's avatar

Ken, you are absolutely right. Last month I was in NYC where I felt safer with 17 million people than I do here in Washington and Warren counties with an overall population of less than 100,000. Why you ask? Because everyone in the city was masking up to go indoors and because you had to show your Vax card and ID to get into museums and restaurants.

I just don't why it is so difficult to do the same here on our small towns to protect all of those around us.

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bernice mennis's avatar

I, too, love the close observation, humor, curiosity, and knowledge of Henke's nature columns...although i often wonder why, given his clear love or our earth, he does not seem to support legislation around regulations of toxins or speak much, or at all, about global climate change and the crisis of extinctions.

What's interesting to see is how the main republican response to Covid is to blame Biden (who has tried all he can do in his capacity) and to support legal measures opposing mandates as a misuse of power, equating it with Nazi dictatorial overreach and rousing people to go to school boards to protest masks and vaccines... I would love our community leaders to speak against threats and violence against election officials, teachers, those in Congress and all who do not follow the words and desires of Trump, who contually chose to support the lie that Trump won, who are unable to care about democracy.

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