Opinion

I was talking to our son, Hans about his son, Oliver. He said he has homework and it is really cool to see him learn to budget his time. As I remember, school was like prison, we moved at the bell and shut up most of the time. Now kids are learning how to live in the real world. It's a beautiful thing. I talked to a kid working at McDonald's just before they were shut down. He's taking extra courses online to get a head start in college. The virus has some unintended conse-quences, good ones.

The COVID-19 pandemic con-tinues to be at the top of eve-ryone’s mind. We’re all adjust-ing to a new normal—talking, thinking and acting differently than we did just a month ago.

We must stay the course, following the best advice of our public health experts. The Coronavirus Task Force has extended its Slow the Spread campaign through the end of April. Please do all you can to make it effective. Most im-portant: Stay home. Limiting contact with others is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones.

I know this is a hard time for everyone, and I want to help keep you as informed as possi-ble. There are reliable links to very informative websites from experts at both state and fed-eral levels. Please go to these websites for facts...don't rely on rumors and opinions. Thank you for what you are doing to care for and serve our commu-nities in so many ways.

We've been dividing our paper napkins into four instead of two. We've had a tradition here that Dawn and I would pull a napkin apart unless we had ribs or some really great tacos.

Apparently this is not some-thing government tries to do. Nope, it's like a reboot of the Great Depression. This bizarre idea that FDR cured it through fascist edicts and free money has been tossed around un-thinkingly ever since I can remember. Did you hear about the recovery that started in 1930 and was complete in 1945? Hmm. That was 15 years.