Up until last week there had only been 10 cases of the virus in Pukatawagan, which has about 3,000 residents, but recently there have ben 10 or 20 new cases a day, said Bighetty, who attributed the rapid rise to people socializing with each other.
“They don’t seem to understand the seriousness of the COVID,” she said. “I still see a lot of people roaming about, thinking of nothing but trying to mingle.”
Some of that may be because of spring weather, some due to COVID fatigue after almost a year of the pandemic and some a result of complacency among some of the 200 or so people who have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.