Thank you for providing some perspective on this vital question of the integrity of our "freely elected" public officials @evlachsblog, from your vantage point. My heart is heavy here in America, with the unfolding national response to COVID-19, by our "freely elected" public officials.

You are "talking" with about as American a person as you are going to find (my family tree / lines of descent ...). It is a grievous thing, properly understood, to see what we once were as a people from our Founding Fathers, through to what "we" (collectively speaking ...) have become today ...

P.S. According to my "handy, dandy" world time zone aide, it is very late "over there." I hope you are sleeping restfully soon ...