Letters to the Editor category, Page 329
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s closure of state homes shameful
Since everybody is so quick to put the president’s head on the chopping block, first try taking a look at your own pitiful governor. If anyone deserves to be impeached, it’s him. How can someone who holds such an office care so little about the people in his own commonwealth?...
Letter to the editor: Support travel agents
Covid-19 has turned our world upside down. After isolation ends, people will want to start re-exploring their community and world. When this time comes, I implore you to support small businesses. The livelihoods of boutiques, local restaurants and travel agents have been devastated, and we need your support. Yes, travel...
Letter to the editor: China and coronavirus
Engaging in a game of Chinese checkers as a kid was fun. But as senior citizens, engaging in warfare with a deadly virus that started in China is life-threatening and disruptive. It’s no surprise that China spies and lies, cheats and steals and wishes for our economy, the dollar and...
Letter to the editor: Joe Biden knows how to be president
In a pandemic, facts and competency are important. If elected president, Joe Biden will instruct government agencies to award government contracts for life-saving equipment to the most reputable businesses with a history of reliability, not to his campaign donors and friends. Biden will ensure that front-line workers have all the...
Letter to the editor: Great time to be a bankruptcy lawyer
Just a thought: The small business lending fund burned through most of its allocated $349 billion in under two weeks. It ain’t enough money. So they had to get another $310 billion. This may be a great time to be a bankruptcy lawyer. Just sayin’. Joe Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: U.S. shouldn’t pick up any more checks
Look, I realize that anything bad that ever happened, going back to Noah and all that rain, is Donald Trump’s fault, I get that. “If only he weren’t a climate change denier,” lamented Yahweh. I stubbed my toe last night on the coffee table … Trump obviously sneaked in and...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s covid-19 rallies
Mixed emotions are the feelings parents experience the morning after the high school prom when their 16-year-old daughter arrives home carrying a Gideon Bible. For me, it is wanting to learn all I can about the coronavirus while suffering from information overload. President Trump has turned the virus pandemic briefings...
Letter to the editor: Shutdown is decimating Pa.
Bankrupting individuals and businesses will be more detrimental and deadly to our state than covid-19 or any other cause of death. There is a significant gap between those whose wealth and power insulates them from experiencing hardship as a result of Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown mandates, and those with little...
Letter to the editor: Stay home & stay safe
People are complaining about the stay-at-home restrictions, and I certainly understand. I’m not enjoying it either. But we must look at the larger picture. People complain about churches being closed, and I understand that, too. It is difficult to be absent from our Christian community, but it would be worse...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to grandparents who step in
As we live cautiously in these uncertain times, I would like to say thank you to all the grandparents who are taking the time to educate their grandchildren. I know I’m not the only person in a position to “care for” and “see to it” that my grandchildren continue their...
Letter to the editor: Coronavirus & abortion
In 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Health recorded 30,364 abortions. Of those, 87% were in the six counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Dauphin, Northampton and Allegheny. As of April 28, Pennsylvania has confirmed 42,000 cases of covid-19 and 1,600 deaths. Much of the virus has occurred in those same counties....
Letter to the editor: Choosing freedom over fear
We need to return to work. This shutdown is more harmful to the American people than the virus itself. People are losing businesses and jobs. We do not want to be dependent on the government and have our children and children’s children pay for it. Every business is essential if...
Letter to the editor: Warm weather & plagues
It was warmer than this during the Black Plague (mortality of 30% to 75%), smallpox outbreaks (about 30%, CDC estimate), Spanish flu (675,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, CDC) and yellow fever plagues (about 3%, about the same as covid-19, WHO estimate). This must mean that the cloaks and hats...
Letter to the editor: A pandemic history lesson
History should provide insight for directing resources toward activities that would alleviate repeating events, such as war and pandemics, that cause unbelievable physical and economic harm. One could argue the well- documented 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed millions and contributed to the economic disaster of 1929, should have been one...
Letter to the editor: Too many non-experts
If it is relevant to preface your words with the phrase “I’m not a (insert profession here) but,” then please stop right there. Any statement after that only serves to prove your preface to be 100% accurate. Gary Russak North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Disappointed in Wolf’s veto
It is rather difficult for me to understand the outrage from the left about bringing Pennsylvania into line with the CDC and federal guidelines just like New York, which is the hardest hit state of them all, which is what Senate Bill 613 aimed to do. This would allow industries...
Letter to the editor: Healthy citizens, healthy economy
Regarding Dave Majernik’s letter “Hysteria shouldn’t kill our economy”: I realize you are a Republican operative, but don’t you understand that you can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy citizenry? You say it is “not uncaring to put coronavirus in perspective and consider the millions of lives lost annually...
Letter to the editor: Prescription drug price reform top issue
While we all remain focused on stopping the spread of the coronavirus, it is important to remember that other health care challenges continue to negatively impact millions of Americans. The challenge that I and many struggle with more and more is gaining access to the medications needed to treat multiple...
Letter to the editor: How many deaths are acceptable to restart economy?
I have one question to ask. It is directed to all of the people who think the quarantine will shut down this country. I disagree with letter-writer Jay Londino (“Shutting down not way to deal with virus” April 23, TribLIVE). How many deaths related to starting up the economy is...
Letter to the editor: Lupus patients need hydroxychloroquine to live
Most people taking hydroxychloroquine for lupus never had any trouble acquiring it. But since it was brought to the attention of the world by the media as a possible treatment for covid-19, there has been a shortage, even though it has not been approved for covid-19 treatment. Those of us...
Letter to the editor: Protesters put us all at risk
Enough is enough. This letter is for all the people who are protesting and waving their Trump signs like it’s a political rally and saying they want to go back to work. I would think that everyone wants the same thing, but by doing so this way, they are putting...
Letter to the editor: Paranoia in government
Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep. No truer words were penned in a song than in this anti-war song from the 1960s. Right now paranoia is rampant throughout the world. The coronavirus has turned the world and the United States into one big insane asylum full of...
Letter to the editor: A Trump-covid-19 timeline
Dec. 19: President Trump was impeached. Jan. 8: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first alert. Jan. 9: Trump hosted rally. Jan. 14: Trump hosted rally. Jan. 18-19: Trump played golf (West Palm Beach, Fla.). Jan. 20: First confirmed case of covid-19. Jan. 22: Trump said, “We have...
Letter to the editor: Wolf should get Pa. back to work
Gov. Tom Wolf should focus on Pennsylvania’s recovery and not on aligning with New York and other northeastern states where conditions are very different. Getting Pennsylvania back to work is critical. Pennsylvania doesn’t have the population density of New York City. Americans are not sheep. We are capable of making...
Letter to the editor: Missing Western Pa.
My wife and I are nurses. My wife is from the Philippines. I promised her years ago that I would take her to Pittsburgh to see the leaves change and again to see the snow on the slopes of Seven Springs. In these times my thoughts take me back home,...
