The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

My Sunday morning was a picture-perfect day on the Colorado Plains: warm sun, hot coffee and my beautiful wife, Vonnie. Imagine my concern when the shocking tones of an emergency alert lit up my phone and shattered the peaceful morning.

What could be so urgent, that my government had to send out these warnings to individual cell phones and interrupt morning routines like mine all across Colorado? A medical alert: this region is at severe risk from deadly COVID.

Really?! I had no idea. The past nine months of watching friends and loved ones get sick, while our government gave us random...