One can easily make the case that this week, Spring Break 2020, was the start of something big, the likes of which none of us had ever seen — a global pandemic caused by a virus that few of us understood at the time.At the county level, the office of Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez released this public statement March 15, 2020:“County Judge Richard F. Cortez on Sunday met with senior health and emergency preparedness officials, including Dr. Ivan Melendez, the designated Health Authority for the County, to assess growing concerns regarding the national and state outbreak of COVID-19. There ...