The nation is getting mixed signals from the West Wing, a pretense at meeting the pandemic, and an election year demand to get everyone back to work, no matter if it's safe or not - the are-we-there-yet? discussion; also how our post office is at risk, how our jail and prison inmates across the nation are at risk in unsafe facilities, what the democratic party looks like for the Fall, a few words from Jane Goodall, and an old book by Thornton Wilder that never grows old - John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan.