Saturday, Mission Health asked people to avoid the emergency room if at all possible; as the hospital was maxed out. The hospital’s analytics algorithms could isolate no overriding factor. But they did admit the surge in utilization began on or around February 20. You have your suspicions, do you?

Well, today we hear that there aren’t enough doctors out in the country. Doctors are becoming urbanized. Well, I have a weird philosophy about people weighing a number of factors in deciding where they want to live. What is more probable, though, speaking as a politician, is that urbanized peeps need to pay a greater shared responsibility to get doctors to those who don’t choose to live near them.