It hasn't been a great week for Montana's new positive COVID-19 case count. With Gallatin County's vaccination rate sitting idly at 61% (which is better than many counties in the state), where do we go from here?
The financial website Wallet Hub, as of this week, has placed Montana in the bottom 10 ranking of the safest states in the U.S. during the COVID pandemic, meaning 40 states are safer to live in Montana during the pandemic, and that Montana has the second highest rate of COVID hospitalizations.
Out of Montana's 1,144 new cases of COVID-19, Gallatin County had 176 of them...the highest number of new cases in the state as of Thursday morning's update.
According to Newsweek, the executive orders apply only to the executive branch and not the legislative or judicial branch. So, how many members of Congress are vaccinated? Well, we don't know, nor can we because of the law.
If you want to wear a mask, I say wear one. If you don't, I'm ok with that. If you want to get the vaccine, go for it. If not, that's cool, that's your choice. I think lots of people probably think like that, they just don't take to social media to try and convince everyone else that they're wrong unless they think as they do.
If you would have told me a year and a half ago that we would still be talking about Covid-19, I would have thought you were wearing some sort of tin foil hat, yet, here we are.
With news reports of hospitals in Montana filling up, and school boards deciding on if masks will be part of the new school year, it feels a little like Deja Vu...