A problem of perception
The Dec. 9-11 Park Record ran a perspective piece by Christa Worthy titled, “We’ve been living with too much rudeness.” I propose an edit: “We’ve been PERCEIVING too much rudeness.”
The writer bemoans that, since moving from southern California to the mountains, manners have become “sorely lacking.” Her evidence? Rolling coal. Whenever “someone” in a diesel pickup pulls up next to her small car, the writer broods, “What drives his aggression and gives him pleasure about harming me?” She explicitly assumes that any stranger with a diesel pickup is aggressive and sadistic. Those are ludicrously illogical leaps.
The first signs of a post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 cases started to appear six days after the holiday, Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough said, a grim development that officials hope is not indicative of a winterlong trend.
“We are where we expected to be,” Bullough said in an interview Tuesday morning. “Went into Thanksgiving with numbers higher than we wanted to be, and we’re seeing the surge we expected.”
He told the Board of Health on Monday that the case rate is rising quickly among older populations. He said that it appeared that intergenerational gatherings contributed to that trend, though his teams hadn’t had time to analyze the data.