Numbers do not lie. Comparing Putnam Covid case numbers in July of this year to case numbers on July of last year, however, is much like comparing apples and oranges.

In July of 2020, relatively few county residents had been exposed to the disease and, far fewer infected. Very few had been tested for the disease. In the last twelve months, untold numbers have been exposed to Covid and nearly ten percent of Putnam’s 56,450…