Here’s Mayor Dave Bronson, in a video posted Thursday, Jan. 13, talking for 11 minutes about his priorities without once, in any respect, mentioning the pandemic. His constituents are literally dying, hospitals and schools are in crisis, doctors, teachers and parents are frayed to the breaking point, and the economy is struggling, but dealing with the pandemic is not on the mayor's radar. (He can talk about his "enemies," which seems to be his term for constituents who disagree with half-baked policies like doing away with water fluoridation.)
If you think about it, it’s nuts.
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