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Happy Independence Day Eve!
This is our week. Chad and Kristi K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes a wedding on the 4th of July on top of Vail Mountain, sparklers, BBQ, and ice cream treats to follow. How Americana does it get?
Typically, we spend this week in the mountains celebrating love and independence. Of course, this year, we are staying at home.
It’s our choice to stay home and continue to quarantine, but since it’s Independence weekend and things are what they are, I want to talk about freedom for a minute.
I love you, America, but I’m disappointed too. We set a new global record for COVID-19 cases today.
And I already see the narrative changing from “let’s do our part” to “well, it’s inevitable.”
It’s not inevitable.
All we must do to get through this time is wear masks, practice good hygiene, and social distance. That’s all. So why aren’t we doing it?
Because we get weird about other people telling us what to do; we are America, land of the free, home of the exceptional, and all the usual rhetoric.
We think we know everything, so no one can tell us anything. We behave as a teenager country — defiant and foolish. When you point…
