To the editor:
Thanks to Mark C. Medlyn, J.D. Ray and JL Kipp, the writers of last week’s letters to the editor. You saved me a lot of writing. The three of you hit the nail on the head.
Through the years, many medical issues have hit the United States and we were not shut down as we are now. Have we forgotten the Hong Kong Flu? It killed over 100,000 people in 1968 and ‘69. We did not shut down.
There are an average of 3,650 drownings a year in pools and beaches (not closed). Then we have cancer. (No cure for that.) We keep going.
There may never be a cure for the coronavirus and we have governors who do not want to open their states until there is one. By that time, they may not have a state.
Accidents, number unknown, and suicides, of which there were 48,344 in 2018 — life goes on.
Now, the powers to be are saying their coronavirus deaths are not correct because other deaths are being counted and not even tested for the virus. Any person with any common knowledge will understand that the more testing they do, the numbers will go up. But why do we not get the numbers of the ones who have been cured? Do you get the idea some are using a lot of scare tactics?
Yes, we will have friends and family pass on and there will be sadness and prayers go out to those families.
Then it has been stated the germs in your house are more than if you go outside in the sunshine and fresh air. Have you gotten the picture yet? The ones telling us to stay home and making the rules for us are still getting paid and their lives go on as if nothing has happened. I have not seen any suggestion that the politicians go without their pay.
This is a small item, but have you really understood the news commentators with a mask over their faces when they are a distance away from the camera?
This, too, will pass. I still hug my children because I love them. So don’t condemn me; everyone has a right to their opinion and what I have written is mine, because I think we still live in the United States of America and have rights.
Phyllis Riskey, Nashville
