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Our View: You may not get it, but why take a risk?

It’s difficult to see the effect COVID-19 has had on our county. Businesses are closed. Schools are closed. People are staying home. But people are getting creative to stimulate their need for social interaction: using social media, teddy bear hunts, video chats, walks and other means to socialize while social distancing.

The fear of spreading the virus reminds us that, even up here in our little corner of the world, the world’s problems can come to infect us.

So far, so good. There have been few reported cases of the virus in Carlton County so far, and while it’s also been detected in neighbo...