I can't believe it has been 15 months since I wrote about COVID-19 in the Ozarks. In summer of 2021 when the Delta variant hit, the Ozarks became a hot spot for COVID. Since it is more easily transmitted, Ozarkers usually don't comply with any "social regulation", and vaccination rates are low here, it makes sense that we would be hit hard. Hospitals in Springfield and other towns were full in July. The infections are now declining. The vaccination rate is slowly increasing.
We have been vaccinated and have resumed some travel.
Written July 2021.
