This idea popped into my head after watching Tom Waits’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on YouTube. During his acceptance speech, he mentioned that he had been given the Key to the City of El Paso. My mind immediately went to Alaska, where recent per-capita case rate for COVID-19 is the highest in the United States, and higher than any country in the world. COVID-19 is running wild here yet the Mayor has refused to support a mask mandate, and consequently our hospitals now are forced to ration care. People who don’t even have COVID are being turned away from emergency rooms. The Mayor protests that the scientific validation of masks and vaccinations is lacking, He seems to be running an experiment of his own, one that is proving how wrong he is in handing the key to the city to the pandemic.
