Anyone who may be tempted to gloat that they do not fall into any of the high risk groups needs to be aware that no group, identified by age or underlying conditions, is immune, and anyone, even with no symptoms, can be a carrier of the pestilence who may transmit it to others more vulnerable.
A question I get asked most frequently is “why can’t Fairfax County require masks like they do in Maryland?” The answer rests on the differing legal structures that underpin the Old Dominion and the Old Line State.
Half a century later the emotions still sting. May 4, 1970, with “tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming,” per Neil Young’s lyric, four young anti-Vietnam war protesters were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University.
Northern Virginia is feeling the impact of coronavirus both in the physical cost of those sickened and lives lost, as well as economic costs.
