Since attending a rally last Sunday, I have been called in the paper: stupid, ignorant, irresponsible and a deplorable. Thank you. That simply means you cannot refute the facts and resolve your disagreement with my beliefs by resorting to name calling.
Truths of the matter are these: 1) More than 98% of the population that contracts COVID-19 virus survive; 2) studies completed by Stanford, USC and N.Y. state all have shown that the virus is much more prevalent than previously thought; 3) the “quarantine” of nonessential employees (by the way, whose job is nonessential?) was to not overload the hospitals with virus patients. That has been accomplished and hospitals are now underused; 4) the social cost of unemployment (now at 26 million nationwide) includes a direct correlation to an increase in suicide and drug use due to the financial hardship of being unemployed; 5) social distancing at this time will prolong fear/isolation and recurrence of the virus’ impact upon our country until about 70% of the population show antibodies to the virus.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness include work, travel and worship among other activities. Make America healthy again!
Tom McNeill, Signal Mountain
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