Fifty-five may not sound like a huge number, but with more than 100 in our hospitals, the health care system is being stretched rather tight, and were numbers to spike even higher, perhaps after people risk gatherings for the holidays, a health system wreck could be in the offing. As bad as COVID-19 has been, nearing 300,000 dead in the United States, and more than 12,000 in Canada, it could be worse. The disease is hardest on the aged, if the death toll were among children the effect of our public psyche would be much greater. So everyone, the farm community included, is looking forward to the end of 2020, forever to be known as the ‘Year of COVID’ with hopes 2021 will be better.