KERSEY — Once a month for nearly 12 years, writer Marilyn Secco of Kersey has published a piece on the DuBois-based Tri-County Weekend newspaper s opinion page.
KERSEY — Once a month for nearly 12 years, seasoned columnist Marilyn Secco of Kersey has published a piece on the Tri-County Weekend newspaper s opinion page.
Knowing is one thing. Having it brought home is something else altogether.
COVID came home to me last Monday at the DuBois Christian and Missionary Alliance Church’s hall just south of DuBois’ city limits.
Penn Highlands DuBois hospital sponsored a COVID vaccination clinic there. I went.
So did a startlingly white-haired woman in a long black coat. She smiled as I held the entrance door open.
She wasn’t “elderly people.” She was one woman, frail enough to need a wheel-equipped walker. Its frame fit through the doorway, but only awkwardly.
She got the shot. I got the shot. My presumption is that we both prefer to not die from COVID.
It is both too soon and too late to pile onto Donald Trump.
It is too soon to revisit every warning sign, to dissect every falsehood. Right now our country needs healing more than recrimination. We cannot heal wounds by ripping off scabs with critiques, especially self-righteous ones.
It is too late because Trump’s damage to our country is done, though fading fast. After Jan. 20, Trump will be just another private citizen, no more or less believable than any other American, including those of us who write articles like this one.
But I know one thing right now. I will never vote for Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley or Glenn Thompson.