By Beth Akers
There is an elementary school down the street from my home that always posts seasonally appropriate, uplifting messages in their road-facing windows. Since early spring, those windows have offered a daily dose of the phrase that has been often repeated in recent months: "we're all in this together." On one hand, this is right. Getting a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic that has brought so much of our nation to a screeching halt will depend critically on all of us working together to prevent the spread through precautions such as mask-wearing, social