It turns out that education has its limits in building a better society

Statistics reveal that about 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September, which is about 3 percent of the working population. That seems bad, but nowhere in the coverage of this is there a mention of how many of those same people took a different job, perhaps just a few days or weeks later.

A lot of journalism is like this: basically many articles are stenography, simply repeating press releases or parroting something said in a press conference or speech. Getting deeper takes much more time than most journalists have. And a startling percentage of Americans have rejected over 100 years of journalism traditions at this point.

One of the "expectations" that I used to have is that there would be shuttle busses to take us from satellite parking lots to DIA in a quite efficient way. For the past 20 months those satellite lots have not been open other than for a few days here and there, despite entering and leaving being essentially automated. 

The culprit is the lack of shuttle bus drivers. So my question is about where the former drivers went. I'm sure the gig is not lucrative and the airport is not close to where most potential workers live, but really... did everyone find alternative work? And is that work enough of an improvement to keep drivers from returning?

No one seems to have an answer, but news outlets will continue publishing incomplete data that ends up causing more confusion than prior to seeing the data. If the point of journalism is to make events and trends and situations clearer, this is not helpful.

In Colorado, we have near record numbers of hospitalized people suffering from Covid, yet we have a quite respectable percentage of the population partially or fully vaccinated. Hospitals report that over 80 percent of their Covid patients are NOT vaccinated... and some are abusive about that fact. 

National stats reveal that those who live in counties that voted for Trump by 70 percent or more are three times more likely to be dying of the virus. Colorado has plenty of counties like that, though few of them have a very large population. 

So are the proudly unvaccinated simply ignorant of those statistics, or do they just not believe anything that comes from an institution that is not right wing radio or FOX news? Or is there some other reason?

I suspect that Covid patients are filling up Denver area hospitals due to being transferred from their small local facilities. 

We need some reporting on how clumps of vaccine deniers spread the virus and affect statewide stats. I see that the country in which I live -- Douglas County -- is now at over 50 positive Covid tests per 100,000 people. The state's goal is to stay below 10. 

And Douglas County is rich and well-educated. 

I am aware that some percentage of Americans will never believe that 750,000 Covid deaths have occurred in the past 20 months in this country. I despair for us and for them, though I tend to trust Nature to eventually sort out this situation. You can't fight basic biology and "survival of the fittest" realities.

Bottom line: we are never going to be "over" Covid. Maybe that was never likely to happen.

But it's easy to imagine our stubborn ignorance adding to the problem.