As a scientist and a member of the healing arts, I’ve been distressed about the “fake news” for a number of years, but even more distressed recently since lives are at stake.As of this morning there have been 172,120 deaths worldwide that were contributed to by the COVID-19 virus and 40,316 in the United States. It is presumed that there was community spread in the U.S., so 40,316 people reached out to someone else, infecting them with COVID-19 and causing their death. Even worse, we may never know if we were one of those people who infected someone else.There is a balance between big federal government and state sovereignty as well as a balance between the need for cautious public health actions like social distancing and the desire to keep people employed. It is a balancing act, and even with clear cut information that is non-political, these are hard decisions that every elected official, business owner, and individual needs to make.I understand that there is a lot we don’t know, bu
