S-N Editorial: Our darkest hour?

Iowa is facing its darkest days right now, and it's not because the clocks rolled back an hour this month.

COVID-19 infections are through the roof, hospitalizations are at an all-time high and medical personnel are stretched thin. The situation has grown desperate in the Hawkeye State, and that fact was made clear Monday by the governor's new order. Gov. Kim Reynolds had pushed back against a strict mask mandate for eight months but was left with little choice but to ramp up restrictions. We simply aren't in a good spot.

Everyone is suffering from pandemic fatigue right now, but Iowans mustn'...