Lakeville Journal Editorial

This time last year, The Lakeville Journal Company had come through a critical time in its history.

The year 2020, while historic and unique (let’s hope that unique quality holds true), is not one many of us want to remember clearly in every aspect. There were lots of surprises and painful losses, and we humans are not usually great at processing those things quickly and well.

There are so many opportunities for miscommunication and mutual misunderstanding during the isolation COVID-19 distancing and sheltering has produced. On social media, especially when it comes to politics, the impersonal approach to exchanging ideas and positions  can lead to harsh divisions. There is no gray area in such discourse any more.

Now that vaccines for COVID-19 are beginning to be distributed across the country, including Connecticut (See story by Debra Aleksinas on page A1 this week), yet certainly not in the quantities to cover the wider population, there remains urgency to the question: To mask or not to mask? 

In the 10 years since the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, was signed into law, the difficulties in keeping it viable for those who need health-care coverage have been many.

As more Northwest Corner towns have become red zones in the past weeks for cases of COVID-19, the sense of urgency surrounding control of the coronavirus here has escalated palpably.

There are few people in the United States who are more dedicated to serving their fellow citizens than those who run and oversee elections at every level of government. It is not a simple task, and state to state, laws are different and can be daunting for those who are new to election work.

As the 2020 presidential election has been called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the new rhetoric the country has heard from them both has been of unity, inclusion, problem solving and equality.