In an Unprecedented Crisis, Local and State Leaders Step Up

摘要

In March, our communities began responding in significant ways to the pandemic of COVID-19, a potentially fatal virus spreading invisibly throughout the world with no clear solution in sight. Neighborhood businesses, schools, cities, states — and even countries — have shut down normal, everyday life. It used to be something we expected to find only on the pages of a novel or on a movie screen. Yet here it is, at our doors. In the Town of Yountville, where I serve as mayor, we have dealt with adversity before. We shook during a major earthquake centered in South Napa in August 2014. We watched in October 2017 as the hills surrounding our town burned and the air filled with smoke. We've endured floods and years of drought. We felt the pain just two years ago of a mass shooting that rocked our sense of security and safety.