Mandates are wrong, but masks and vaccines can save lives

Hi folks,

I want to talk a little about COVID. During our first round of COVID-19, those with underlying conditions and the elderly were the populations most at risk from COVID. When younger, healthy people caught COVID, their symptoms were fairly minor, like mine, or they got sicker and had some issues, like my wife Carole, but usually weren’t real serious.

Unfortunately, our government had a knee-jerk reaction and put out a lot of information that turned out not to be accurate and imposed a lot of regulations that were probably not needed. This resulted in a huge amount of distrust and second-guessing. We are still dealing with some of the fallout from those earlier decisions.