Quite the day today. It started out rough, with the depressing reality of the work required to breath life back into my Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. This small business is not unlike many other small businesses in America right now: we are gasping for air.
You could say that the engine driving the newspaper "threw a rod" and needs to be fixed. This is what we will address over the next four to five weeks. We are bracing for a very difficult summer.
On a daily basis over the past week, I've been reading news from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper on their website. Georgia is a fascinating case study of COVID-19, as they were hit very early in the pandemic in Atlanta due to their high-use International airport. Tonight I read about a Hancock County, Georgia, which is a rural county whose main hospital has been hit hard by COVID-19. The population of Hancock County is 8,500, and they have 170 reported COVID-19 cases.
In terms of Minnesota's battle against COVID, today the state reported 29 deaths to the virus. We continue to utterly fail our nursing home residents: 26 of the 29 deaths are from nursing home residents. That is unacceptable!
On a better note: my day ended with at least an hour of work in the garden. Our family garden, covering at least 1,100 square feet in multiple plots, is at least one-third planted. It has gotten off to a very good start other than one minor hiccup. I'll explain more on that in an upcoming newspaper issue.
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