The Golden State is suffering with a massive Coronavirus surge that is straining hospitals to the max. (NPR.org)

The Covid-19 pandemic has a firm grip on America as we enter the holiday week. I hope people take heed and start following CDC directives and severely curtain their festive socializing. The information of the new vaccines becoming available will probably lead to some relaxation of personal precautions, combined with no national leadership to advise otherwise, we will inevitably see more surges before this is all over. We will need to mask up for many many months into 2021, probably for most of the year.