What a contrast. A month ago, 46 COVID-positive patients occupied hospital beds in Hidalgo County. This Monday, Aug. 9, according to Ivan Melendez, the county’s medical director (Health Authority), that number had jumped to almost 400, approximately a 10-fold increase, AKA, a thousand percent. With schools set to open later this month, for many, the future now looks less bright. In fact, when President Joe Biden held a mainly maskless White House celebration July 4th and declared that the U.S. was “closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus,” one may now argue he was a little bit too ...