Remember back in March, April and May when so much of Oklahoma was shut down in response to the pandemic? Students were completing classes online, some parents were working from home, sports and school activities were shut down. Options for entertainment were limited.

During that time, we went out of our way to express our concern and support for people working the front lines: medical personnel, EMTs, nursing home staff members. The irony was that while hospitals in the large metro areas were struggling, here in rural areas of Oklahoma and Kansas we had very few cases of Covid-19.

Now rural c...