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from EdmondActive Magazine August/September 2021

HeardOnHurd

Hi there and thank you very much for picking up my magazine this month. This month is the July/August issue, and I couldn’t be happier about bringing you June and July coverage of Heard on Hurd, coverage from LibertyFest, coverage from a flattrack event held at Remington Park and more.

These events happened at the exact right time with virus numbers almost all the way down, and what a fantastic release it was for everyone to be able to gather again in public.

It’s funny how everyone was so apprehensive about heading out even with vaccines back in May, afraid that gathering would cause hot spots. By June, it appeared we were rounding the Covid corner, as gathering in the thousands at Heard on Hurd didn’t cause a hotspot nor did gathering at LibertyFest.

I think the Delta variant just hadn’t fully arrived yet at the time I attended these events, much less in May when I drove with my husband of 30 years to southwest Florida for a weeks stay.

I don’t know what caused such a drastic spike in cases, but it is definitely here as I write this column, and my hope is that you have utilized every tool available to you to try to avoid getting this illness.

I hope that everyone will be a little kinder this go round about other’s feeling the need to wear masks, because it does help keep the spread down. Whether you will or not is just a matter of personal choice.

I hope everyone will keep going to our city’s events, out to eat with so many patios and streeteries available in Edmond and around the metro. Keep shopping at local boutiques and other independently owned businesses.

I don’t believe there will be anymore shut down’s because I don’t believe our economy could handle another as well the Governor will not call another State of Emergency.

I know that as of today, the OK State Health Department is recommending all staff and kids K-12 wear masks at school again, based solely on the CDC issuing new recommendations to suit the current Delta variant situation, and recommended that all people, vaccinated or not, wear masks indoors should they have contact with immunocompromised folks.

We could reach herd immunity with 80% of the population vaccinated, however Oklahoma is at only 39% so again, please be kind to those who must choose to wear a mask, because of the lack of vaccinated population they feel they must to keep themselves and their friends and family safe. There is no need for ridiculing someone for governing themselves accordingly.

Again, here is to a different new season of how we all gather, and I am hoping to see everyone get out and visit and gather, but safely. I will be at the August 21 Heard on Hurd to see the amazing musical performers with The Big News, a ska punk band, Ckai Dawson with her rich soulful R&B, and a crowd favorite Lincka!!!

Sherri