Do I have to tell people that I tested positive for COVID?
Today we start with a column is asks one of the big COVID questions out there and get a little into what Democrats can do to regain control of their messaging.
I tested positive for COVID. Do I have to tell people?
By Steven Petrow
Count me in. I’m one of the nearly 2 million Americans who tested positive for COVID-19 over the holidays even though I had both vaccine shots and the booster. Fortunately, I had no symptoms. Like so many others, I was completely shocked to read my test result and felt kind of ashamed. (I swear I had been vigilant and I had no idea how I’d become infected!) When the shocking news arrived, I had been on my way to finish my gift shopping before getting on a plane the next day to see family.
Do I really have to tell people? I wondered to myself. Honestly, I really didn’t want to spend the holidays alone, again.
Today's editorial cartoon
Time for Democrats to save their brand and democracy
By Jill Lawrence
You may be a Democrat, but you probably don’t see yourself as part of a “woke mob.”
Even if you feel woke, as in aware of injustices in our society, you probably don’t agree with Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., that “woke politics” is genderless, sexless and Godless. You may not have heard about the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, or realize it abbreviates to the Stop WOKE Act or that it empowers citizen vigilantes to go after “woke indoctrination.” You may not consider yourself “woke” or think it has anything to do with you.
Other columns to read today
- Muslims face a suicide crisis in America
- Our most important resolution should be better communication on COVID
- What if Americans decided to love their political enemies?
- Lower the US flag to half-staff to commemorate Jan. 6 attacks
- NYPD's first Black female commissioner is a historic first, with historic challenges