Entering a holiday perspective must include caution

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Random thoughts while contemplating the holidays allows the mind a wide range:

• If society’s goal is to enjoy the Independence Day holiday in small family gatherings as a way to help emerge from the dreaded COVID-19, we should sacrifice a little more now by wearing masks, know distance is important, wash our hands, and do not become careless, or, over-confident that we are safe.

• Taking the vaccine does not automatically make us immune from carrying the virus to others, even in apparent health, or, catching COVID-19.

• Will Easter, Spring break, Memorial Day prove to be events of spreading the sickness?

• The objective is care and caution, not carelessness and recklessness.

• Schools are resuming full-time in many districts. Observe protocol and work to get through each day safely. It will pay dividends.

• How did U.S. society work through the pandemic in 1918-1920 any better than we have done?

• Predictions universally call for more pandemics, whether in five years, 10 years, or, 20 years.

• Families today should be mindful of passing to future generations what they have endured in this crisis, as a reminder what can happen.

• Best wishes to the Cosmo Club of Aurora in its second phase of the annual rummage sale in Aurora. See page 19 in the Fundraiser forum.

• The Aurora Sunrise Club urges signing up now for the May 14 Downtown Scavenger Hunt at www.rotaryaurora.org.

• The second journey of the three amigos in their 50-year-plus adventures, which ends this week on page 10, has been most interesting with valuable insights and information: A vicarious treat.

Clear and Concise, Week 13 Year 2:

• Growing use of more and more is no greater in quantity than using just the word more and becomes exaggerated and imprecise.

• The words effort and production are not interchangeable. You can have great production with little effort and use great effort with little production.

• Partner is a noun and not a verb. We work with a partner, perhaps, however, we do not partner with a person. Who started that concept? It was no partner.

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